Twitter is surprising, especially when it comes to growth and activity that users expressed within this site, which went from being the banner of a microblogging tool of communication in social time, with great kindness that you have saved a place preferential liking of many people who consider Twitter as a communication channel, very powerful and yet useful. And the numbers guarantee this.

For example, only in the month of January (2010), Twitter received almost 75,000,000 unique users, according to comScore. Compared with January 2008 figures, the growth is spectacular: 1,100% in 12 months, which means one thing: success. Not only is the number of users who visited the site, but also has to do with the activity of the same. Examples:

• 23,500,000 unique visitors in the United States (January 2010).
• 50,000,000 tweets are sent every day.
• The increased number of tweets sent in 1,400% since January 2009.
• Twitter.com is the # 12 of the world according to Alexa.
• In South Africa, Twitter is the eighth largest site and this country the place where the highest positions.