Twitter may not have reached Facebook’s landmark of a Billion users, but, it’s growing at a steady pace, the popular micro-blogging service now has more than 200 million active users around the world, with some 10 million of those in the UK.

What’s notable is that it has seen more than 45% growth in the last 8 months, it had around 140 million in May with major events such as the presidential election in the US and the Olympics converting more people from passive to active users, according to Twitter.

“There are now more than 200M monthly active @twitter users. You are the pulse of the planet. We’re grateful for your ongoing support!” tweeted Tony Wang, general manager of Twitter in the UK.