Why Do We Like Twitter? by Clive Dickens

26May

Why do like Twitter? Is it because it has 32 Million Global Visitors?

What can we learn from Twitters success?
• Conversations – People based utility rather just website or software
• Less is more – micro blogging suits us, who has time to write long blog posts
• Control & Convienence – available across all platforms, mobile & free
• Gossip – Windows into other people’s lives

From Techcrunch:

How quickly they grow. Remember when Twitter was just a little pipsqueek, with less than 10 million monthly unique visitors to its site worldwide? That was back in February, 2009. Fast-forward to April, and Twitter’s U.S. visitors alone reached 17 million. Now comScore has released its worldwide numbers and it estimates Twitter’s global unique visitors in April, 2009 was a whopping 32 million, up from 19 million in March, 2009.
To put that in growth into perspective, Twitter has just passed Digg (23 million), LinkedIn (16 million), and the NYTimes.com (17.5 million) in monthly unique visitors, as counted by comScore. And comScore only measures the number of people who visit Twitter’s Website, not the millions more who send and read tweets via their phones, desktop apps, or other Websites. Twitter.com is also now bigger than Bebo and Freindster, for what it is worth. Who will it pass next?

Comments (1)

Marty from new yawk @ May 26, 2009 at 6:57 pm | Permalink

There’s an article in today’s Wall Street Journal (a leading daily US financial newspaper) where Twitter is discussed. It seems they need to work on a business model.
You can prob find the article online at wsj.com (maybe a cost involved to view).