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75M Twitter Users But Growth Slowing

By Mark Evans | Published: January 26, 2010

First, the good news: there are now 75 million Twitters users. Now, the bad news: only 15 million are “active” users, and overall growth is slowing after peaking last July. These findings come from RJ Metrics, which based its findings after downloading “just under 2 million tweets from about 50,000 users”. Here are the report’s conclusions: [...]

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100M Twitter.com Users by November?

By Mark Evans | Published: August 4, 2009

If there was any doubt about Twitter’s popularity and growth, the latest numbers from comScore make it clear it is resonating with people around the world. According to comScore, Twitter.com attracted 44.5 million unique visitors in June, a 19% increase from May. Based on data from Compete, which showed Twitter had 22.9 million unique visitors in [...]

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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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