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Twitter’s Carolyn Penner posted some statistics about the microblogging website on the company blog. In three years, two months and one day after the launch users wrote one billion tweets. Now they send one billion tweets a week.

Penner wrote that on March 12th alone 572,000 accounts were created which is up from 460,000 accounts on an average day last month. Besides, Twitter’s seen a 182 percent increase in mobile users over the past year.

According to a new survey commissioned by Fleishman-Hillard and conducted with market research firm Harris Interactive, people trust more those companies who use microblogging websites like Twitter to provide real-time responses.

The research showed that about 75% of consumers polled say they view companies who microblog sending frequent messages on sites like Twitter or updating their status on social networks like Facebook as more trustworthy than those who don’t.