Social Media Quick Facts: Twitter

Here are some of the latest social networking and social media stats for 2011, this time for Twitter. Click here if you missed our Facebook stats post.

• Twitter's web platform only accounts for a quarter of its users - 75% use third-party apps.
• Twitter gets more than 300,000 new users every day.
• There are currently 100 million users of Twitter's services.
• Twitter receives 180 million unique visits each month.
• There are more than 600 million searches on Twitter every day.
• Twitter started as a simple SMS-text service.
• Over 60% of Twitter use is outside the U.S.
• There are more than 50,000 third-party apps for Twitter.
• Twitter has donated access to all of its tweets to the Library of Congress for research and preservation.
• More than a third of users access Twitter via their mobile phone.

Statistics from Twitter and the Chirp Conference.