Unofficial Reports Suggest Twitter Surpassed 500M Registered Users In June [STATS]

Twitter is unofficially officially half as big as Facebook now.

According to analyst group Semiocast, Twitter has passed the 500 million registered users mark, making it the second-largest social network in the world.

TechCrunch reports that Semiocast recorded the 500th million Twitter user signing up for the service sometime in June 2012. And by July 1st, Twitter had reached 517 million registered users.

Semiocast is basing its numbers on a sample of over a billion tweets over the month of June.

Their numbers are slightly dated, compared to figures from Twopcharts that suggested Twitter had reached the 500th million mark by

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