Twitter boasts of 100 million active users

Micro-blogging site Twitter has long been regarded as the hottest platform for letting people know what you’re doing. Now the San Francisco-based communications company has the statistics to prove it, touting the fact on Thursday that it now has 100 million monthly active users.

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo divulged the user numbers at a press conference at the company’s headquarters, where he also revealed that Twitter has 50 million users who log on to the service each day. He said the site’s count of monthly active users is up 82 per cent compared to January and that Twitter is projecting to add another 26 million users before the end of the year.

Twitter still has a long way to go before it catches up to Facebook’s 750 million users, but there’s one thing the company won’t do to boost its numbers: raise the 140 character limit on tweets.

“No,” tweeted Mr. Costolo. “We are going to offer simplicity in a world of complexity.”