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Twitter is expected to continue growing at a massive rate. Over the past few months, the service has been processing between 15-17% more tweets compared to the previous months, and this trend doesn’t appear to be slowing down. By some estimates, the service is gaining nearly 300,000 new members each day, while the leading social networking site (with more than 400 million active members), Facebook, is increasing new membership by more than half a million per day.

The social media explosion that began taking place two to three years ago continues to grow, with more tools to integrate them into your blog than ever before.

For bloggers, these tools make it possible to share your thoughts, links to blog posts, as well as continue the conversation through Facebook and Twitter. The times ahead will include even more of the services, although there will likely be a newcomer or two whose features are simply integrated into the leading services.

Pingdom also included a number of other interesting stats about the popular networking service, as outlined below.

• Growth through January 2011 will increase by 494%, with an average increase in the range of 15-17% per month if the momentum continues.
• Less than six months after Twitter announced that they passed one billion tweets, the two billionth tweet will have been made.
• By December, Twitter will process nearly six times as many tweets as the previous year.
• It took more than three years to get to a billion tweets, but the billion mark will be reached every single month if the rend continues by the year 2011.

Conclusion

What do you think of these stats? How will Twitter integrate “premium” services to better monetize the service – after all, the traffic to their website and through third-party applications will certainly increase during this period, too. How will you integrate Twitter into your site to better capitalize on the new traffic?