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NEW MILESTONE: Twitter is growing fast and is close to reaching 250 million tweets per day - up from 90 million a day in September 2010. - Reuters

SAN FRANCISCO: Twitter CEO Dick Costolo revealed that the microblogging website is still growing fast and is close to reaching a new milestone of 250 million tweets per day - up from 90 million a day in September 2010.

Twitter's global active user base has ballooned to include more than 100 million people around the world, half of which sign in daily.

Technology blog Mashable reports that Dick Costolo said, "We had 30% of our monthly active users loggin (sic) in every day at the beginning of the year. Now it's over 50%" while talking about Twitter at the Web 2.0 Summit here.

The launch of Apple's Twitter-friendly iOS 5 update has helped increase new sign-ups for the platform. Since Apple's new operating system was launched on Oct 14 Twitter sign-ups from iOS devices have tripled, said Costolo.

According to technology blog TechCrunch, Costolo added, "We think that we can be on two billion devices around the world, and reach every person on the planet, and the way to do that is through simplifying."

To put those figures in context, Facebook has more than 800 million users of which more than 50% log on in any given day, and Google CEO Larry Page revealed that Google+ had more than 40 million users during the company's earnings conference call on Oct 13. - Relaxnews 2011