Twitter touts 50 million tweets a day

Twitter users are now tweeting 50 million times each day, the microblogging phenom reports. According to the Twitter Blog, that translates to an average of 600 tweets per second. By comparison, users were tweeting 5,000 times a day in 2007, 300,000 times a day in 2008 and 35 million times a day a year ago.