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Twitter’s Growth: A Pause or a Plateau?

By Mark Evans | Published: August 12, 2009
A quick look at Twitter.com’s traffic in July shows pretty much flat growth from July – the second flat month-over-month period this year. (See the Compete.com chart below) I’m not sure whether this is: 1. An indication that Twitter’s growth has, in fact, plateaued despite the hype. 2. It’s summer, and people have better things to do (go [...]
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Twitter’s Growth Rebounds in May

By Mark Evans | Published: July 9, 2009
For anyone who thought the Twitter bandwagon had ground to a halt, Compete.com reported that the number of unique visitors in the U.S. in May climbed by about 16.5% to 22.9 million. As Mashable points out, it will interesting to see Twitter’s growth in June and July given the buzz surrounding news such as Michael Jackson’s [...]
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How Many Users Does Twitter Really Have?

By Mark Evans | Published: May 27, 2009
I noticed some chatter about how many people are using Twitter after the Wall St. Journal published a story suggesting Twitter now has 32.1 million, compared with 1.6 million a year ago. According to Compete.com, Twitter had 19.4 million unique users in the U.S. in April. This means Twitter has 13 million users in other places [...]
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Guess What? Twitter’s Popular

By Mark Evans | Published: April 8, 2009
Compete.com has a gushy blog post about Twitter’s traffic is exploding, hitting 10 million unique visitors worldwide in February (700% year-over-year growth). Well, Twitter’s growth comes as no surprise, what’s interesting is who’s using Twitter. The most enthusiastic users are 45-to-54-year-olds, followed closely by the 25 to 34-year-old demographic. So how do you explain why an older [...]
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