Infographic of the Day: The Path to 10 Billion Tweets

Can Twitter become essential before it becomes a fad?

In February, Twitter hit a whopping 10 billion tweets in a single month. To document that explosive rise--from a minuscule base just over a year ago--Mashable created this infographic. And actually, the biggest challenge facing the micro-blogging service is buried in the middle of the graph: The most-active 28% of users account for 76% of the traffic; the top 1% account for an astounding 35% of traffic.

If Twitter is merely a fad for that...