• Mashable, Wednesday, March 3, 2010 1:57 PM

If Mashable's estimates are correct, Twitter is about a day away from recording its 10 billionth tweet. To put that number into some perspective, the top microblogging service hit 1 billion tweets only a year ago, and 5 billion four months ago. In other words, "Although Twitter has been somewhat struggling with traffic (compared to its earlier immense growth) in the last couple of months, it still managed to go from five to ten billion tweets in four months; quite a remarkable achievement."

Last time Mashable checked, Twitter was at 9,917,803,012 tweets. "The five billionth (now deleted) tweet was a simple, 'Oh lord,' written by Robin Sloan." Mashable, and the rest of the world, is waiting to see what wisdom the ten billionth tweet will impart.

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