Since its public launch in July 2006, Twitter has grown to over 58 million users wordwide with approximately 600 Tweets being sent each second or 50 million tweets per day.
Despite Twitter’s rapid growth and the $57 million invested by venture capitalists so far, Twitter is still tinkering around with ways to monetize. What Twitter is calling the “Promoted Tweets” program was unveiled this week as the first step toward the company making money.

