• Royal Pingdom, Friday, September 3, 2010 12:20 PM

Twitter, which critics have suggested has already peaked, now boasts over 145 million registered users. "That's a lot, but how much is Twitter actually being used?" asks research firm Royal Pingdom. The Answer? "Turns out that there's more activity on Twitter than ever before, and it keeps increasing."

Indeed, Twitter processed 2.64 billion tweets this August, an increase of 33% over May, according to Pingdom. In August, meanwhile, an average of 85 million tweets passed through Twitter every day. The increase is even more impressive within the context of the entire year. Activity on Twitter has already more than doubled this year, as August had 115% more tweets than January, according to Pingdom.

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