Pingie: HTTP:: Twitter Growth May Have Leveled Off

HTTP:: Twitter Growth May Have Leveled Off
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Twitter has seen some spectacular growth earlier this year and, thanks to the number of celebrities that started using it, a lot of attention from the mainstream audience. But, while the users skyrocketed, there was an increasing number of nay-sayers doubting that the microblogging service could sustain the growth or even maintain it. Now, despite closing a huge funding round, new numbers from Hitwise show that the detractors may have been right and Twitter has not only stopped growing but actually dipped in visits and interest over the summer. Spurred by Twitter's new $1 billion valuation, Hitwise general manager for global research, Bill Tancer, decided to share some traffic numbers to put the new funding in perspective. In his report he found that Twitter's share of the overall Internet traffic has been dropping lately. Having reached a peak of 0.20 percent of the traffic in June 2009 it has since dropped to 0.17 percent. Still, just one year ago it was at 0.01 percent!
so the site has definitely grown tremendously in the past year. A part of the decline can be explained by users moving to desktop or mobile clients and dropping the site but not leaving the service altogether. This is most definitely true as third-party clients account for a significant part of Twitter's traffic, as much as 50 percent, and are not taken into consideration by these repor...
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