Here are some interesting twitter statistics according to worldwide comScore who releases figures today.

• 73.5 million unique individuals visited Twitter in January 2010, up 8 percent from December
• Twitter has an amazing growth rate of 1,105 percent!
• 2009 was Twitter’s best year ever!
• It is estimated 1 billion tweets were tweeted in December and 1.2 billion tweets in January! (information provided by Crunchbase)

Keep in mind that comScore configures these number from twitters own site. These numbers do not record usage from mobile phones and other applications like the popular hootsuite and twillow tools.  Numbers from those apps may be twice as large.

With almost 75 million users tweeting over a billion tweets a month, it  makes sense for you to use twitter strategically to grow your business! Read more about strategic tweets and how to make twitter work for you!

Cultural Sponge develops strategic twitter campaigns to help businesses brand, create a buzz and grow.  Contact us today for a free consultation!