Twitter growing 25 times faster than Facebook

Technology
Written by IMRG
Monday, 30 March 2009
New figures from Hitwise reveal that Twitter has grown by more than 3,000% in the last year. Between February 2008 and February 2009 Twitter’s share of UK traffic increased about 33 times. Related Articles: SMEs embrace Twitter Look before jumping into Twitter Facebook, Twitter draw fire over verification Leaked doc says SMEs to benefit from further VAT changes SEO in 2010 - how to stand out The micro-blogging site is growing at around 25 times faster than Facebook, which experienced traffic growth of 123% in the same period, according to Hitwise. However, Facebook still receives 52 times more traffic than Twitter. A significant amount of Twitter’s traffic is via third-party applications or mobile devices, rather directly through its web site, but even when taking this into account, Facebook still receives around 20 times more traffic. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has confirmed that paid-for “commercial” accounts will soon be offered to businesses, with additional features unavailable to casual users. Stone said that businesses and individual users will still be able to use Twitter for free if they wish to, and that “for-sale” features will be add-ons. Traffic to the micro-blogging site, which launched three years ago, has overtaken traffic to the homepages of the UK’s major newspapers, including the Sun, the Guardian and the Telegraph. Share this: digg del.ico.us Newsvine Reddit Furl technorati Facebook Comments (1) Subscribe to this comment's feed Twitter growth is not suprizing Posted by Dror Zaifman, 21 April 2009 Twitter growing so fast is not surprising at all. They are the latest "in" thing at this time plus with all those applications linking up to them as stated in the article they are the "iphone" of the social media sites allowing many people to develop rich applications and thereby bringing more users on board. Twitter is also very easy to use and I am sure like myself other people love the simplicity of using it. Twitter will be here for a while. The question now is will Google or Microsoft be buying them and will they sell out to a buyer or hold off for more money later ? If I was Twitter I would hold off and develop some relationship with either Microsoft or Google similar to the one Microsoft has with Digg and Google has with MySpace. Post a comment Name (required) Email (required) (not published) Website Title By posting on this website you are agreeing to abide by our website comment policy and all posts are subject to the approval of the website editor. We will remove posts that contain offensive or threatening language, personal attacks on the writer or other posters, posts that are off topic and posts that are considered spam or specifically used to promote any commercial products or services. Any poster who repeatedly contravenes the policy will be banned from posting on the website.