Twitter has released some stats on their current impact in the UK and they’re quite impressive: approximately 10 million active users with 80% active on mobile phones.

The company is traditionally very secretive about their stats and growth, which makes them very difficult to pin down; but we’ve seen this company rise up from a strange place and become a mighty force in the social media market.

CNET’s Don Reisinger points out that Twitter’s UK numbers comes out just a short time after their latest announcement that they have 140 million active users across the world,

Twitter’s announcement today comes just a couple of months after the company revealed that it now has 140 million active users around the world. The company’s users send out 340 million tweets each day, and average 1 billion tweets every three days. To put that into perspective, it took Twitter 3 years to hit its first billion tweets.

Twitter has been around for some time now, yet they’re still waffling on an actual business plan but this hasn’t caused investors to shy away from the social media powerhouse—mostly because users don’t shy away from it. In March, SiliconANGLE writer Saroj Kar did a run-down of the statistics that outline Twitter’s current state-of-the-tweet and it’s obvious that they’re constantly growing: but where are they growing to?

We’ve seen the social media giant ponder participating in political advertisements, the dreaded “promoted tweet” campaign, and even other attempts to monetize advertisements into tweet streams themselves. However, it’s hard to tell where the company is headed towards making money in of itself—so far, with those 140 million active worldwide users, Twitter has been a springboard for apps, communication, and third-party integration.

If anything shows as much, Microsoft’s Xbox support Twitter account hit 1 million tweets. Twitter is a distinct avenue for keeping track of and engaging with customers.

And very recently we saw Twitter get hit with the fear of a massive breach when 55,000 Twitter credentials were leaked to Pastebin.com—although it’s starting to look like they’re mostly from a spambot, made up of one-third duplicates, and possibly have their origins in an older LulzSec leak from last year. Twitter is so popular now that it’s commonly targeted (like Facebook) for clickjacking scams involving the deaths of celebrities and other news.

Twitter is a global phenomenon.

And they’re not sitting on their laurels: last month the company’s vice president of products, Satya Patel, said that their goal is 2 billion worldwide users… Well, 14% of the goal isn’t too bad—perhaps they’ll just have to step on the gas to get the rest on board.