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I am a social media user and its nice to hear about Twitter.
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13 commentsFriday, May 16, 2008
By Doug Caverly
Twitter's been the subject of embarrassing outages, spam concerns, and serious questions about its general usefulness. None of this seems to matter much, though, as new data from Compete shows that the service is growing at an extremely impressive rate.
Compete's Max Freiert writes, "In terms of U.S. visitors, Compete has seen Twitter traffic nearly double from February to April, currently attracting nearly 1.2 million people per month." Also, "In terms of time spent on site as a share of all time spent online, Twitter has grown dramatically - more than quadrupling" in the past 180 days.
The one odd thing about Compete's "online attention" graph is the frequent occurrence of deep dips. Freiert connects these to weekends, and perhaps it isn't ideal for Twitter that people pay less attention when they're not chained to desks.
The service seems to enjoy an unusually high level of popularity among young people, however, and it's hard to criticize any aspect of such rapid growth.
MG Siegler asks, "If this kind of growth keeps up, at what point do we consider Twitter mainstream?" He then notes, "Of course, Twitter has to stay up long enough for this to happen."
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I signed 5 people last week
The thing about twitter is that it is so simple it's complex for many people. "How does it work?", "I'm to busy doing what I'm doing to pay attention to what other people are doing?", and "What is it for?" of the main questions I get.
As an internet marketer, I start of by telling people it is one of the best way to keep up what is going on in the internet. I'm able to get a lot of scoops because I follow some of the lesser known but significant players in my field.
While I follow people, I also see it as bonder among my teammates. I'm able to see what they are working at my discretion. Which is great because I don't have to worry about my email bulk folder being cluttered.
The only reason why I don't use twitter more when I'm not at the computer is because my current cell phone isn't twitter compatible. I have a really cheap Motorola by Tracfone. But when I make the decision to get another phone my time on twitter away from the computer will increase. That's because the more exciting and rich your life is the more valuable your twitter become.
I'm going to tweet this once I finish. Twitter most definately is being slept on by a lot of people like Snapvine is.