Twitter - The Numbers

After some initial relunctance, I find myself using Twitter (and associated apps) quite often. Its impossible to explain to others not on Twitter why it is interesting - and I confess that the people I follow changes - I'm following people who share ideas, not just their geographical position and what they are ingesting at that moment. This Techcrunch article has more on the number of Twitter users. Had faith in the Jaiku guys but since Google bought them its silent. I see that they are having software issues in scaling the service, which may mean going back to the drawing board with a different software platform.