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Microblogging site Twitter now sees up to 250 million tweets per day compared to the 100 million recorded at the beginning of the year, and the 200 million recorded in June.

In simple terms, that equates to approximately 10.42 million tweets per hour, which is the equivalent to everyone in Moscow tweeting once an hour.

This means that more than 173,600 tweets are posted every minute. And all of these come from just 100 million active users, half of whom log on to the site every day. Back in January, just 30 per cent of active users would log on every day.

In February last year, just 50 million tweets were being sent each day but by June the number had increased to 65 million.

At the recent Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco, Twitter's chief executive Dick Costolo said that he wanted to make Twitter stand out from Google+ and Facebook, who he believes use social media as an end in itself.

'We have lofty ambitions. We want to be part of the fabric over every communication in the world, and we think we can reach every person on the planet,' Costolo said at the conference.

Twitter has now been valued at an estimated $8 billion.

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