Posts Tagged ‘ Twitter ’
Following the elections that took place in Iran on June 12, Twitter has become one of the most popular mediums for distributing information about the protests. Daily visits to Twitter.com (excludes mobile & desktop applications) increased 13% on June 12th as compared to the previous Friday and traffic jumped 23% Wednesday, June 17th from news [...][ READ MORE ]
Websites that shorten URLs have become a hot category over the past few weeks, mostly due to the increasing popularity of Twitter and their use to fit URLs in tweets without going over the 140 character limit. One website, TinyURL has dominated this category and was the default URL shortening service for Twitter, until today [...][ READ MORE ]
To piggy back on a post my colleague across the pond, Robin Goad, did yesterday, we thought we’d revisit some of the stats to better understand how things would look if Google were to acquire Twitter. As the chart below illustrates, US Internet visits to Twitter have increased 194% since the start of the year [...][ READ MORE ]
What do people search for on Twitter? We collected search terms that we took place within Twitter’s search engine to identify the topics that are being searched most often on Twitter for the week ending March 21, 2009. Searches for the vampire series ‘twilight’ were the most popular for the week overall fueled by the [...][ READ MORE ]
Is Twitter, as Eric Schmidt opined last week, the poor man’s email? Is it a Facebook or Google killer? What can clickstream data tell us about how people are using Twitter and how does that compare to email, Facebook and search engines? The following table shows the top 20 websites visited after Twitter.com in February. [...][ READ MORE ]
The inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States was a major event for US Internet users on Tuesday since many needed to rely upon online streaming on news websites to view the event from work. As one might expect, the Broadcast Media and Politics categories were the main beneficiaries from [...][ READ MORE ]
Twitter has become a popular pastime for many who like to update their daily thoughts and activities, as well as for the voyeurs who just enjoy reading the tweets. Last week, the market share of visits to Twitter surpassed Digg for the first time since launch and was ranked #84 (one above Digg at #85) [...][ READ MORE ]
Read our latest Science of Search column at TIME.com. If you look at the age demographics of Twitter closer to its genesis in 2006 you’ll find that the age demographics of visitors to the site skewed almost entirely to the 18-24 year old demographic. This week’s column examines some of the Mosaic segments that are [...][ READ MORE ]
Twitter has been a hot topic again over the past couple of days with speculation circulating that the company may purchase Summize. Although much of the activity on Twitter takes place via mobile, the traffic to the website has continued to grow substantially – the weekly market share of visits was up 500% for the [...][ READ MORE ]
Twitter, the micro-blogging platform, has been in the news quite a bit lately (in particular for VC funding and rescuing a US blogger). This has helped drive US Internet visits up further to the increasingly popular service. Year on year, Internet visits to Twitter.com are up 8 fold. In the past three months, visits have [...][ READ MORE ]
