The popular social networking company Twitter, which has more than a billion tweets a week, is set to hit the seven digit figure later today, claims Twopcharts, a third party Twitter analysis company.
The 500 million relates to the total number of registered accounts, and fails to reveal how many are active.
A Twitter spokesman declined to comment on third party figures and said that the company only tracks how many active users are using the site. There are no plans from the company to announce a registered user figure milestone.
Presently there are 100 million active Twitter accounts; a figure which was announced by the company’s executives last September.
Twopcharts estimates the number of registered tweeters using assumptions that rely on the correlation between registration dates, publicly available Twitter account IDs and user figures announced by the executive team.
It admits that its figures could be inaccurate as they are based on limited information and some interpretations.
Facebook recently announced that it had more than 800 million active users and is well on track to hit the one billion member mark imminently.
The site as more than six billion photos posted to its network every month and approximately 100 billion photos stored on its servers – making it the largest image-sharing platform in the world.
Google+, the search giant’s rival social network which launched last year, announced that it had reach 90 million users last month. However, Google has crucially not revealed what percentage of the 90 million accounts are active.
Since launch, more than one million Google+ Pages have been created and in excess of 3.4 billion photographs shared on the site.