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Twitter’s Hockey Stick Moment
Twitter’s Hockey Stick Moment
October was a good month for Twitter. All those election Tweets brought a 25 percent increase in U.S. visitors from the month before, to 1.45 million unique visitors, according to comScore. (Worldwide, the number was 5.6 million in September). Since January, Twitter has experienced a 16-fold ...
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Twitter's Hockey Stick Moment?
O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies. — ... Over the weekend, TechCrunch postulated that with a frenzy of election-related activity, Twitter hit its hockey stick moment in late October. The theory goes that Twitter saw a 25 percent increase in U.S. visits from September to October and is thus about to experience the sort of explosive growth that will propel it into mainstream consciousness. ...

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O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies. — ... constantly, and comments around the Web range from curious to seemingly angry that Twitter is not yet generating serious cash. Some of the discussion is ...

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