With the micro-blogging platform Twitter being valued a staggering $1 billion, Hitwise North America analyst Bill Tancer provides some food for thought.
In particular Bill asks whether the micro-blogging platform with the stated aim of being 'the pulse of the planet' is running out of steam based on visitor stats he's gone through.
Bill looks at US site visits, which is important overall as the US accounts for 60%+ of Twitter's user base. Of course, a large share of Twitter users don't go to the web-site but instead access it via their phones or an application such as Tweetdeck.
Nevertheless, the website should give some sort of indication as to the numbers signing up.
The Hitwise chart surprised me a little bit, as the 'Hitwise is the new Second Life' chatter seems to have died down since April / May.
From purely personal experience I've seen a lot more people sign up, and then only a month ago we were told by Comscore that Twitter is now more popular than the BBC or Craigslist in terms of traffic.
As a result, we probably need to wait and see until other metrics firms publish their stats.
And on the numbers, with 50+ million users, 2.5+ million of which who are power users, Twitter has of course already reached a certain amount of critical mass. Especially since users are skewed heavily towards media and tech types - people who can make things happen online. It does call that $1 billion valuation into question though...
- Twitter Keeps Growing (myventurepad.com)
- Shocking! Twitter is a Big Influence (myventurepad.com)
- Twitter Flew Above The 50 Million Uniques Mark For the First Time in July (techcrunch.com)
- Twitter tops BBC for monthly traffic, while BBC Online click-throughs exceed 10m (blogs.journalism.co.uk)
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