10 billionth tweet tweeted on Twitter!

Twitter has hit the 10,000,000,000th tweet milestone. The massive figure was reached at around 1am GMT on March 5th. The news comes just five months after the micro-blogging site hit the 5 billion tweets mark.

To put into perspective how quickly Twitter is growing, tracking site GigaTweet predicts it will only be 200 days until Twitter gets its 20 billionth tweet.

If you we're hoping to read this famous 10 billionth tweet, you're out of luck I'm afraid; the user who made the post has their page set to private. Still, if you're interested, here's the 9,999,999,999th tweet.