Stat junkie: If Twitter were 100 people

LONDON - With Twitter's unique users increasing eight-fold over the last year, it's easy to forget that only a tiny proportion of are actively using the microblogging service. This chart by David McCandless puts things in perspective by visualising the Twitter community.

If Twitter were 100 people
If Twitter were 100 people

Twitter’s puts the microblogging site at 25 million users by the end of 2009, rising to 100 million by the end of 2010 and 350 million by the end of 2011 (this would make it sigificantly bigger than Facebook, which is currently the world's largest social networking site with 250 million users).

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