socialmedian: Twitter Now Growing at a Staggering 1,382 Percent

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Twitter Now Growing at a Staggering 1,382 Percent By thomaspower

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Source: Mashable!

Mar 16, 2009

Summary

Maybe its Jimmy Fallon’s integration of it into his new TV show, Shaqs use of it to interact in real-life with fans, or blogs ability to write about it non-stop, but one way or another, Twitters growth just continues to explode.

The latest numbers from Nielsen Online indicate that Twitter grew 1,382% year-over-year in February, registering a total of just more than 7 million unique visitors in the US for the month. Not only is that huge growth in one year, but in one month as well, as in January, Twitter.com clocked in with 4.5 million unique visitors in the US, meaning the service grew by more than 50 percent month-over-month.

Elsewhere in the social networking space, Facebook continued to widen its lead on MySpace, with a total of 65.7 million unique visitors versus 54.1 million for its increasingly distant competitor. Meanwhile, the recently re-launched Bebo, which now plays in the social networking aggregation game, is showing some promise, growing 40 percent from last year to register a total of nearly 3.2 million US visitors in February.

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Comments (4)

Nigelwalsh,

Mar 17, 2009

I also like the Top 20 report there. Didnt see S|M on there though, yet.

Santoshputhran,

Mar 17, 2009

A trivial can make so much impact on our lives. It is same as Reality shows on the TV.

Jasongoldberg,

Mar 17, 2009

@nigelwalsh @santoshputhran Twitter is nothing short of a brilliant in terms of taking something simple and just exploding it. And, they did it by just focusing on core user value and growth/usage vs. other factors. @fredwilson should be commended for his early recognition of the potential too.