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Tweet This Milestone: Twitter Passes MySpace - Digits - WSJ
By Amir Efrati There’s a new piece of data that Twitter Chief Operating Officer Dick Costolo could take with him to the stage today at the IAB MIXX conference in New York, as the company tries to woo marketers . AFP/Getty Images
Last week, Twitter engineer Raffi Krikorian presented a number of new stats about the microblogging service as part of a recruiting talk at UC Berkeley. One interesting stat involves the number of API calls that the site is seeing: Krikorian says that Twitter is seeing 6 billion API calls per day, or 70,000 per second. That’s more than double the amount ( 3 billion API calls ) that Twitter was seeing in April, according to the Programmable Web. Some of the stats, including the fact that Twitter is seeing 90 million Tweets per day, we also heard at Twitter’s news event this past week.
Twitter Seeing 6 Billion API Calls Per Day, 70K Per Second
Here's Twitter's Big Problem: It's Not Going Mainstream
The last few months have begun to confirm a conviction we've long held about Twitter --that, in its current form, it's not likely to become a huge mass-market phenomenon. Given that the tech community is obsessed with Twitter and that Twitter already has an astounding 145 million users worldwide, that may seem a ludicrous hypothesis--but other data backs it up. For starters, check out the chart we published this morning from Gawker Media . The chart shows the social-media referrals to Gawker 's sites over the past year. The main trend in the chart is the collapse of Digg and the rise of Facebook .
2010 thus far has been a year of milestones in terms of online population, with Facebook hitting 500 million active users and Twitter reaching 100 million users. This growth explosion is not without its dark side; a rising tide lifts all boats, even the more miscreant ones. According to a report by Barracuda Labs , both general and questionable activity is increasing on Twitter, due primarily to the company’s open API and easy account set-up. With more than 50 million tweets per day, and 600 million search queries per day, user activity is at an all time high: Nielsen posits unique visits to the site have grown at a rate of 45% compared to last year.
More People, And Inevitably Scammers, Are Using Twitter
The Twitter Engineering Blog: Room to grow: a Twitter data center
Later this year, Twitter is moving our technical operations infrastructure into a new, custom-built data center in the Salt Lake City area. We're excited about the move for several reasons. First, Twitter's user base has continued to grow steadily in 2010, with over 300,000 people a day signing up for new accounts on an average day. Keeping pace with these users and their Twitter activity presents some unique and complex engineering challenges (as John Adams, our lead engineer for application services, noted in a speech last month at the O'Reilly Velocity conference).
New users aren't signing up for Twitter like they used to, according to numbers provided to WebProNews by a developer with access to Twitter's API. 9.4 million users tweeted for the first time in July, and that monthly total has only declined in the four months since. Keep in mind, though, that while the month-over-month numbers don't look great, Twitter is still growing at a much faster pace at the end of 2009 than it was in the beginning. 7.1 million new users tweeted in November 2009, whereas only 1.3 million people joined the service in January.
CHART OF THE DAY: Is Twitter In Trouble?
Somewhere around this date , every month , we look at the stats from various web analytics companies, and check how the most important social media and social networking sites are doing. And don’t get us wrong: these stats can be biased ( Compete , for example, is US-biased) and they can be wrong (sometimes they will report a fall or decline in traffic even when the reality is quite the opposite). But when we see a trend that goes on for four months, there must be something to it. And that’s exactly what’s been happening to Twitter: according to Compete, it has flatlined for the last four months , showing absolutely no growth as far as uniques, visits, or rank go. And it’s not just Compete: Quantcast paints pretty much the same picture, and Twitter CEO Evan Williams has recently admitted that their traffic has stalled in the US . It’s interesting, because it’s hard to find a reason why this is happening.
STATS: Has Twitter Flatlined Just Short of Mainstream?
Site Profile for twitter.com (rank #43) | Compete
Twitter is a privately funded startup with offices in the SoMA neighborhood of San Francisco, CA. Started as a side project in March of 2006, Twitter has grown into a real-time short messaging service that works over multiple networks and devices. In countries all around the world, people follow the sources most relevant to them and access information via Twitter as ... more
1. Index This compares audience composition of the site to the entire Internet population. The higher the index number, the more concentrated a site is in a particular demographic. As an example, if a site indexes 100 for age 18-24, that means a given visitor to it is as likely to be 18-24 as any internet user chosen at random.
twitter.com - Quantcast Audience Profile
In this report, Sysomos explores the different applications used to post updates on Twitter. We analyzed a sample of more than 500 million tweets collected over the past five months to determine the most popular applications. As the chart below shows, Twitter.com is the most popular application with 46% of all tweets, while TweetDeck is a distant second with 8.48%. Since Sysomos published its initial Twitter report in June, Twitter.com's market share has climbed slightly from 45.7%, while TweetDeck has dropped from 19.7%.
Inside Twitter Clients
Twitter's own homepage is still the most popular tool for users to update their status on Twitter. Around 46% of all updates are made directly on the site. Social media analytics and monitoring service Sysomos analyzed 500 million tweets it collected over the past 5 months and found that TweetDeck is the most popular third-party client.
Twitter.com Is Still the Most Popular Twitter Client - TweetDeck
As more and more data comes out on Twitter’s growth, people are beginning to ask just how it all fits together. That in mind, here are the most recent compiled statistics that we have on Twitter, as of January 2010. How many people visited Twitter.com in January worldwide? According to comScore it was nearly 75,000,000 . Not YouTube numbers, but that represents some 1,100% growth in a year. Multiplying yourself eleven times in twelve months or so must count as explosive growth.
Twitter Statistics: The Full Picture
Erick Schonfeld is a technology journalist and the former Editor in Chief of TechCrunch. At TechCrunch, he oversaw the editorial content of the site, helped to program the Disrupt conferences and CrunchUps, produced TCTV shows, and wrote daily for the blog. He joined TechCrunch as Co-Editor in 2007, and helped take it from a popular blog to a thriving... → Learn More Twitter COO Dick Costolo offered some updated stats at the Conversational Media Summit today in New York City. Twitter is now attracting 190 million visitors per month and generating 65 million Tweets a day. “We’re laying down track as fast as we can in front of the train,” says Costolo .
Costolo: Twitter Now Has 190 Million Users Tweeting 65 Million T
135 000 accounts created per day, according to Fortune by Jun 8
Twitter’s growth is still accelerating. The service has reached 125 million registered users, up from 105 million almost two months ago. When the company said it had 105,779,710 million registered users on April 14 at its first developer conference, Chirp, in San Francisco, it said it was growing by roughly 300,000 accounts a day. Today, Twitter spokesperson Sean Garrett said the company had 125 million accounts, meaning it’s been growing at an average pace of about 340,000 new registered users a day since Chirp. Twitter’s chief operating officer, Dick Costolo, said two days ago in New York that the company was seeing 190 million unique visitors a month to Twitter.com, up from 180 million visitors in April. But visitors are different from active users, which is what competitor Facebook tracks.
Twitter: 125 million users and climbing | VentureBeat
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg may no longer be worried about Twitter and its impressive growth rate – and he shouldn’t be – but that won’t keep the micro-sharing service from continuing to boast impressive growth numbers all around the world . Online analytics firm comScore noted Twitter’s overall continued growth , even based on incomplete data (third-party client users aren’t included in its numbers), and now Pingdom is doing its share by pointing out where exactly Twitter’s staggering international expansion is happening right now . The short version: just about everywhere. Pingdom took a look at Google Trends for Websites traffic data for Twitter.com to see where the service is experiencing the fastest growth in terms of monthly usage. Again, that means its findings are far more fit for deducing overall trends than they are able to accurately detail Twitter’s user numbers, since a lot of people use desktop and mobile clients for tweeting.