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Twitter Revisited - in More than 140 Characters
Twitter Revisited - in More than 140 Characters
Hi Bill, Your data is always a tonic - thanks for sharing this and your earlier post, which includes the key caveat: "the above chart indicates visits to Twitter's website, and does not include application and mobile traffic." The Pew Internet Project's surveys also find that social network ...
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Twitter Reveals More Lists Power With A Widget
Twitter Reveals More Lists Power With A Widget
techcrunch.com — Since it was turned on for all users late last week, everyone is talking about Twitter’s new... Lists feature. Most people seem to like it, but some have no idea what it’s good for. Perhaps those people will understand a bit more about Lists ... (more) Twitter Reveals More Lists Power With A Widget
How High Will Real
How High Will Real
nytimes.com — WHEN a US Airways plane landed in the Hudson River in January, the first picture appeared on... Twitter . In June, Twitter users were mourning Michael Jackson before major news outlets reported his death. And, this month, as much of the nation was ... (more) How High Will Real
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Facebook makes up 6 percent of U.S. Internet visits, leaving Twitter behind, says Hitwise
VentureBeat — Here’s a mind-boggling statistic: Facebook.com makes up 6 percent of all U.S. Internet visits, according to web research firm Hitwise. And it’s leaving Twitter in the dust. Hitwise’ general manager of global research Bill Tancer wrote: I believe this figure confirms our original hypothesis of Twitter-stall due to a drop in new users. As Facebook continues to grow, its user-base across Mosaic types shows that its user-base is becoming ubiquitous. Twitter by contrast was showing greater coverage amongst types earlier in ...

Twitter is No Threat at All to Facebook, Traffic Analyst Says
ReadWriteWeb — ... Hitwise, a web traffic analytics firm that often publishes fun and interesting stats on issues of the day, looks today at how threatened Facebook's growth might be by Twitter. The company's conclusion: Twitter is no threat at all. ...

New Hitwise Report Exposes Twitter Trouble
WebProNews Feed — ... 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 6.1 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 over time. ...

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LOS ANGELES--There are a lot of reasons why the entertainment industry is still trying to figure out how to wrangle Twitter: real-time tabloid drama, on-set spoilers, and the fact that 140 characters offers a lot of ways to say a movie really sucks. The 140Conf LA event, which took place ...