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By: Ly Technology » Facebook Grew Twice As Fast As Twitter In July

Ly Technology » Facebook Grew Twice As Fast As Twitter In July — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 02:55:15 +0000

[...] base of users and this was the year it entered hypergrowth. But that hypergrowth seems to have slowed since the end of April, at least in the U.S. Between April and July, Facebook grew 30 percent in unique U.S. visitors, [...]

By: Facebook Grew Twice As Fast As Twitter In July | Design Website Blog

Facebook Grew Twice As Fast As Twitter In July | Design Website Blog — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:11:54 +0000

By: Facebook Grew Twice As Fast As Twitter In July | Technology

Facebook Grew Twice As Fast As Twitter In July | Technology — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:03:07 +0000

By: Facebook Grew Twice As Fast As Twitter In July - Programming Blog

Facebook Grew Twice As Fast As Twitter In July - Programming Blog — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:44:17 +0000

By: Facebook Grew Twice As Fast As Twitter In July | Stoth

Facebook Grew Twice As Fast As Twitter In July | Stoth — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:49:01 +0000

By: Twitter bremser op – væksten stagnerer « Modeblogs.net

Twitter bremser op – væksten stagnerer « Modeblogs.net — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:49:42 +0000

[...] måske de første tegn på metaltræthed. Ifølge en undersøgelse fra ComScore (refereret af TechCrunch) oplevede den populære tjeneste kun en moderat stigning fra april til maj i antallet af nye [...]

By: Twitter Back on Track In June With 20 Million U.S. Visitors

Twitter Back on Track In June With 20 Million U.S. Visitors — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:27:43 +0000

[...] may not be for teens, but plenty of other people are flocking to the service. After taking a breather in May, when U.S. unique visitor growth almost screeched to a halt, Twitter picked up the pace [...]

By: Twitter Back on Track In June With 20 Million U.S. Visitors | Webbyn.com

Twitter Back on Track In June With 20 Million U.S. Visitors | Webbyn.com — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 06:15:23 +0000

By: This Twitter Post a Long Time in Coming « SmoothSpan Blog

This Twitter Post a Long Time in Coming « SmoothSpan Blog — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:34:15 +0000

[...] problematic. It will get increasingly expensive to bring enough new participants to offset that churn. I’m still pondering exactly what I would do, so that will be the subject of other posts, [...]

By: Partilha de ficheiros: mais uma prova de que o FriendFeed bate o Twitter aos pontos | Remixtures

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:20:55 +0000

[...] de lifestreaming em tempo real será a Web do futuro e que o Twitter – cujo ritmo de crescimento já começou a decair – tenderá a mirrar [...]

By: The Twitter Cycle: Curiosity, Abandonment, Addiction. Global Visitors Hit 37 Million. | GeekStream

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:57:57 +0000

[...] 2009. The monthly growth slowed down from the 68 percent in April, but was not as flat as the 3.5 percent growth comScore reported for the U.S. in [...]

By: The Twitter Cycle: Curiosity, Abandonment, Addiction. Global Visitors Hit 37 Million. | Cellphone Ultra

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:32:45 +0000

[...] 2009. The monthly growth slowed down from the 68 percent in April, but was not as flat as the 3.5 percent growth comScore reported for the U.S. in [...]

By: Emerge Inc. Blog » Blog Archive » My how things have twanged in just 4 months

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:37:42 +0000

[...] there is plenty of talk on the Internet of Twitter’s growth slowing (also here, here and here), it is hard to argue with the phenomenal growth of the past 4 months. [...]

By: The Bloom is off the Twitter Rose…Finally |

The Bloom is off the Twitter Rose…Finally | — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:28:50 +0000

[...] it was amusing to see coverage from social-media cheerleaders like TechCrunch, which reported that Twitter took “a breather” in May. TechCrunch could just have easily written that the traffic slowdown portends a massive [...]

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free online games for kids — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 02:36:57 +0000

I think Twitter is just going the way of most new technology – high growth in the beginning, and then tapering off as most people have tried it. “Filtering” then happens – those who really like it will stick with it, while those who were just in to try out because everyone told them they should, would probably stop after awhile. I guess unless Twitter implements something new in its service, they would be “stuck” with their current user base of loyal followers who have stuck it out till now.

By: Fred Wilson: The Value Of Twitter Is In “The Power Of Passed Links”

Fred Wilson: The Value Of Twitter Is In “The Power Of Passed Links” — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:58:59 +0000

[...] compared Twitter’s recent organic growth to the early growth of Google (minus any mention of Twitter’s recent slowdown) and shared some analysis of traffic to the Websites of his portfolio companies and his blog. [...]

By: Fred Wilson: The Value Of Twitter Is In “The potential Of Passed urls” | Cellphone Ultra

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:16:58 +0000

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Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:05:38 +0000

By: Techeroid » Fred Wilson: The Value Of Twitter Is In “The Power Of Passed Links”

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:27:43 +0000

By: Fred Wilson: The Value Of Twitter Is In “The Power Of Passed Links”

Fred Wilson: The Value Of Twitter Is In “The Power Of Passed Links” — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:03:14 +0000

By: 7p

7p — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:03:33 +0000

Erick – You can also run UV’s for the 3rd party Twitter app sites and see a correlation.

By: Stephen Williamson

Stephen Williamson — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:33:12 +0000

I didn’t mean to imply that Twitter granted them some mantle of reliability. With regards to the Iran situation, it just seems that what certain Tweeters are saying is almost certainly accurate, as it is backed up by global media. The problem is that it isn’t backed up until 4-5 hours later.

Anyway, the point of this article is traffic numbers. I think it’s fairly obvious that Twitter’s traffic numbers are going to be through the roof this month. If you don’t think so, you’re really not paying attention.

By: Free email marketing

Free email marketing — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:48:35 +0000

Twitter is like a breath of fresh air on the Social Media scene. I have been on it for just a few weeks now and I have met several interesting people. It is a platform to network with people you would like to meet in real life.

By: George

George — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:49:31 +0000

And I also have to disagree about the reliability of the sources – using twitter has no connection at all with being reliable or making you more reliable as a source than using a different channel of communication.

By: George

George — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:46:37 +0000

I disagree about that – Twitter is not the only place to get up to date information. There are blogs covering the topics there pretty much in detail and that provide more insights than you could ever deliver on twitter.

I agree on the other hand that there is a real value provided by twitter and that it lies pretty much in its real-time nature. But for now I have to say, that (understandably) real-time is just overhyped and therefore the value of twitter and similar services. While the timely and micro aspects complement the web in its nature and add a dimension that was missing it is not the only and most important aspect. When you see, that a lot of the research done on the internet is related to topics and facts that are fundamental and complex in their nature it should be obvious that short and up to date is not the only thing.