It'd be a big understatement to say that 140-character messages are becoming more common online. Tweet-related data has been released (and analyzed), proving that rapid growth is taking place, and one prediction even puts the number of tweets that'll be transmitted this month at 1.4 billion. Believe it or not, Pingdom's forecast is really quite sane. In December, Twitter passed the billion-tweets-per-month mark. Then, in January, 1.2 billion tweets were documented. So 1.