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Sorry, Twitter fans (and animal lovers), but you'd better brace yourselves for another round of (hopefully Photoshopped) pics featuring birds in cats' mouths and squashed against glass doors.  New stats from Hitwise make it look like Twitter isn't doing so well.

First of all, it seems that there's almost no chance of Twitter catching up with Facebook.  Bill Tancer found that, on October 24th, Facebook's market share of U.S. visits was about 6.10 percent.  Twitter's, meanwhile, was 0.14 percent.  That puts Facebook ahead by a factor of about 43.5, and it's increasing that lead every month.

Then, in a move that might silence anyone who's hoping that Twitter's just biding its time, building up speed, Tancer provided a zoomed-in view of the site's performance.  And since early July, at least, the news hasn't been good.

Tancer also wrote, "At iMedia Breakthrough, Jeff Rosenblum from Questus referenced a Harvard Business School Study finding that the median number of tweets per twitter user over the life of their twitter account is 1!"

Still, any pictures that just portray a bunch of half-eaten bird feathers must be considered overkill, at least according to Twitter's CEO, Evan Williams.  He recently told Adam Lashinsky, "It's grown a little bit slower lately, but we have some things in the works that we think will change that."

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