Don’t bother reaching for that calculator – that amounts to about 579 tweets a second.

Of course, while that may seem quite admirable to some, that’s still a long way from how other social networking services fare. Techtree reports that YouTube alone accounts for a billion video views a day, and Facebook is proud to be able to say that 8 billion total minutes every day is spent on the site, with about a billion messages sent through its online messenger equivalent, Facebook Chat.

But, considering that Twitter serviced around 5,000 tweets a day in 2007 when it was first launched, growing quickly to 300,000 a day by 2008, the fact that Twitter was sifting through 50 million of these 140-character messages each day showcases a healthy growth for the service. With a slew of new features that were introduced recently on Twitter, this number may actually rise even further.

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