Twitter files its “TPS” reports: 600 tweets per second, 50 million a day

Microblogging network Twitter blew a hole through talk that its growth has come to a halt.

The company said that it’s seeing 50 million tweets a day, up from 35 million last fall. That’s 600 tweets per second, or ‘TPS’ in a joking reference to the movie “Office Space.” It’s also close to the 60 million status updates Facebook sees a day, despite its much larger base of 400 million users.

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From the new statistics, Twitter’s pace of growth is definitely slower than in 2009, when tweets per day grew by 1,400 percent that year. But it shows that Twitter is by no means stagnating: it’s gone from 5,000 tweets a day in 2007, to 300,000 in 2008, then 35 million last year and 50 million today. The company says it excluded spam from the measure.