Twitter Growing in Popularity Outside of the US, Facebook Unconcerned
Twitter Growing in Popularity Outside of the US, Facebook Unconcerned
Posted 10/26/2009 at 4:43pm
| by Ryan Whitwam
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So, we’re all tired of hearing about Twitter, right? Well, strap yourself in because it isn’t going away anytime soon. It seems that ComScore showed a 6.7% worldwide rise in Twitter visitors in September. This amounts to 58.4 million visitors, and a 949% increase in the last twelve months. That’s a lot of tweets. Curiously, US visits have been flat since June.
None of this data includes applications that only access the API, so these figures may even be underreported. While these numbers seem staggering, they are nothing compared to Facebook, with its 411 million visitors in September.
Twitter’s best bet is the recent deal with Bing and Google to provide its “firehose” of tweets to the search engines. This should drive more hits to the social networking site. Even with the help of Google, can Twitter avoid being crushed by the behemoth that is Facebook?
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Walnut
October 26, 2009 at 7:10pm
Facebook != Twitter. They're two totally different apps for two totally different purposes. It's not unexpected that one is not worried about the growth of the other, because they're hardly in direct competition.
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