The big number is 10,000,000,000. Ten billion tweets. Ten billion messages sent and counting.

Just over an hour ago, the mega micro blogging site Twitter hit 10 billion tweets. Twitter is said to get some 50 million tweets a day and so hitting 10 billion in just a few months from the previous 5 billion tweets mark wasn’t as surprising. Gigatweet is the counter that track this activity and as of the moment this post is being written the latest count is —

The 9,999,999,999th tweet is from a protected user, @timdorr (as mentioned in Mashable’s article.)