The Explosive Growth of Twitter
Posted: April 28th, 2009 | Author: Agitationist | Filed under: social media | Tags: facebook, myspace, social media, soul-crushing, twitter, useless | 2 Comments »Upon the 8000th time hearing that phrase, I think it’s time to put that into perspective:
That’s still a lot of people, no doubt. But it’s still a baby learning to crawl when compared to facebook, or even myspace. Hell, it’s not even as popular as friendster, which is apparently only still used by a few people in the Phillipines.
But wait, you say – Twitter has 14 million members! Well then why is daily traffic only about a million? Well, for a start: 1) lots of those “members” aren’t real people, and 2) the proliferation of bots, spam, fake “marketing” tweets and just plain boring “what I had for lunch” updates are driving away real people in droves.
Am I going to predict Twitter’s death? No, not just yet. It’s too early in the disease cycle. But this is one very sick baby. And ugly, too.
when comparing websites, please try to understand what you are comparing…Google Trend Labs appears to be the trend in “search traffic”, not the trend in users in websites. So maybe the people who use Facebook.com have to search in Google to find Facebook and the people who use Twitter just stay within the application and don’t need to use Google.com?
Google Trends has two kinds of data. One is estimated search volume (not shown here), the other is “Daily Unique Visitors”, as indicated on the graph itself.