Twitter Finds Quick Success

Posted on: Thursday, 2 July 2009, 09:30 CDT According to an Internet monitoring company, the number of visitors to Twitter in the last 12 months has increased 22-fold. The site is now the fifth most viewed social networking site, compared to being 84th last year, according to Hitwise. Twitter has grown 93% bigger just in 2009. Robin Goad, the Director of Research at Hitwise, said, "If people accessing their Twitter accounts via mobile phones and third party applications were included, numbers could be higher." Twitter has also jumped in the overall Internet rankings, moving from 969th most visited site on the web last year to now being the 38th most visited site. Twitter has become popular among many celebrities such as Miley Cyrus and Ashton Kutcher. "If anything, the service is even more popular than our numbers imply,"... [read full story]                    

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