twitter rauscht auf über 14 millionen user

twitter-tabelle

april 09: twitter hat 14 mio user (quelle: compete.com/internet, grafik bö)

läckbeck! innert knapp eines monats ist twitter von rund 8 auf 14 milionen user um über 77 prozent gewachsen! das behauptet zwar die “social times” – aber ich mags glauben. in meiner follower-schar tummelt sich wöchentlich eine stattliche anzahl neu-user.

Twitter has been on fire for the past few months and it doesn’t appear to be cooling anytime soon. According to the latest Compete.com statistics, Twitter has surpassed 14 million users, up over 76.8 percent since last month when we wrote that they had surpassed 8 million users. Is it nipping at the heels of Facebook? Not at all! Facebook also had a huge month and surpassed 90 million U.S. users according to Compete.com.

Both companies continue to experience phenomenal growth but Twitter is almost doubling on a monthly basis at this point which is truly a record breaking pace. Last month I estimated that Twitter would end the year with around 50 million active users. That is now more than realistic and while traffic isn’t equal to registered users, there is a strong correlation between the two statistics. mehr…

mehr statistiken und warum eher user ab 25 jahren für den zuwachs sorgen nach dem sprung.

jetzt hat der comscore-blog nachgelegt und weiss, wieviele user aus den usa kommen – und wieviel von ausserhalb (nämlich viel mehr):

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und hier noch die aufteilung der twitter-user in altersgruppen:

The skew towards older visitors, although perhaps initially surprising for a social media site, actually makes more sense than you might think at first. With so many businesses using Twitter, along with the first generations of Internet users “growing up” and comfortable with technology, this is a sign that the traditional early adopter model might need to be revisited. Not only teenagers and college students can be counted among the “technologically inclined,” which means that trends are much more prone to take off in older age segments than they used to. And with those age 25 and older representing a much bigger segment of the population than the under 25 crowd, it might help explain why Twitter has expanded its reach so broadly so quickly over the past few months.

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