Twitter: The graph above tells a story of how we’ve grown over the past three years in terms of number of tweets created per day.

Pingdom says Twitter now processing more than one billion tweets per month.

… the Internet isn’t just prevalent in our lives, it is our lives. Ninety-three percent of teens ages 12 to 17 go online, 75% of them own a cell phone, and 66% say they text. In fact, 58% of 12-year-olds now have mobiles, compared to 18% just five years ago.

Why Social Media Is Important for Business

“Nearly a year in, I’ve come to understand that the real value of the service is listening to a wired collective voice.”

Humor aside, the conspiracy theory that Google is attempting to kill its foes by giving them more exposure on Google, thus resulting in death by spam, is, well, interesting.

A nice breakdown of real time search by Danny Sullivan at Search Engine Land.