Twitter Traffic Rose 22-Fold In 2008

BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat reports that Internet monitoring company Hitwise has said that Twitter is now the fifth most viewed social networking site compared with the 84th last year.

“Twitter has been the fastest growing major website in the UK over the last 12 months, and certainly the most talked about,” commented Robin Goad, Director of Research at Hitwise. “The noticeable thing about Twitter’s growth is that the vast majority of it – 93% in fact – has occurred during 2009. Media coverage of the site has escalated significantly this year and high profile celebrity endorsements, by everyone from Stephen Fry to Ashton Kutcher, have come rolling in.

If anything, the service is even more popular than our numbers imply, as we are only measuring traffic to the main Twitter website. If people accessing their Twitter accounts via mobile phones and third party applications (such as Twitterific, Twitterfeed and Tweetdeck) were included, the numbers could be even higher.”

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