Twitter’s growth these days seems to be coming from abroad. ComScore data shows a 6.7 percent jump from August to September in worldwide vistors to 58.4 million (which translates to 949 percent increase from a year ago). The 20.9 million visitors from the U.S., in contrast, has remained flat since June.
These numbers do not include mobile or desktop app usage. But if Twitter hopes to become the first Web service to reach one billion users, it had better speed up its growth. Facebook, which is outgrowing Twitter in the U.S. even on a percentage basis, had an estimated 411 million visitors worldwide in September (up 5.5 percent from August). And Google is at 879 million unique visitors globally, according to comScore.
Twitter’s recently announced deals to provide its full firehose of Tweets to both Bing and Google should drive more traffic from the search engines. And maybe new features aimed at making Twitter more manageable such as Twitter Lists, which is expected to be introduced to all users sometime this week, will also reignite growth.
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It’s all because of ability to tweet in different languages..some say Twitter only allows you to tweet only 140 characters but this decreases upto 40 odd characters in other languages which can be easily fixed which gives the unique ability to tweet in 140 characters in several different languages also
As now of I am adding more languages to my site http://www.twitlan.com (currently it stands at 51which would be increasing to 76)
twitter won’t hit 1Billion users, not enough appeal to mainstream people. I don’t really give a hoot about Ashton Kucher or MCHammn
you’ve missed the point of twitter
Again, “These numbers do not include mobile or desktop app usage” I still argue that even people who use the mobile or desktop app visit Twitter.com at least ONCE OR TWICE in a month and would still be included in the unique monthly visitors
Without even trying, the Twitter app I’m working on – http://taweet.com – has seen some solid global traffic.
This has lead me to believe over the past month since our beta launch that Twitter is seeing strong growth outside the US.
even with the growth, the shape of the curve is very reminiscent of the top of an s-curve as the exponential growth flattens to linear… the growth % flattening…
facebook..more for fun and friends….twitter…more for business and advertising. Complimentary products but competing in the sense of time spent using the website.
Twitter’s growth in the U.S. is dead. Deal with it.
solid growth – the Twitter search can easily be done in other languages since the algorhtym is focused on the most recent postings…
Wow this is amazing! Twitter growth is unstoppable…
Every one have time last year the myspace was on top now facebook may be it is up coming site which would on top
I dnt know why ppl compare Twitter and Facabook .. Twitter is just 140 charcters which is mostly used by business purpose or spmmers putting the same link again and again and making the place messy .. and Facebook is different … first of all .. it is not limited to 140 characters .. ther is more privacy in Facebook then Twitter .. there you a upload pictures, videos, chat and many other things and apps ..
Best,
Daina
If it doesnt include desktop users the stat is meaningless. Many of use use tweetdeck and others.