As more and more data comes out on Twitter’s growth, people are beginning to ask just how it all fits together. That in mind, here are the most recent compiled statistics that we have on Twitter, as of January 2010.
How many people visited Twitter.com in January worldwide? According to comScore it was nearly 75,000,000. Not YouTube numbers, but that represents some 1,100% growth in a year. Multiplying yourself eleven times in twelve months or so must count as explosive growth.
Where does that put them in the United States? According to Compete Twitter.com received some 23,500,000 visitors. This puts the US market at around one-third of the Twitter user base.
But what about people Tweeting and not using the web interface? Well, we can track that as well. According to Twitter today some 50 million tweets are sent a day. Impressive, but what does it mean? Well, tweets in 2009 grew some 1,400%. Traffic to Twitter.com grew around 1,100%, and total sent Tweets went up 1,400%.
Why the discrepancy? People joining Twitter, using the web interface, and then moving a Twitter client. Lots of them, it turns out.
So then where does Twitter.com rank in the world? According to Alexa Twitter.com is the number twelve website in the world. In the United States only, it also ranks at number twelve.
In which country does Twitter.com rank the highest? According to Alexa that would be South Africa where Twitter is the eighth largest website. The United Kingdom, Pakistan, and the Philipines all have Twitter as their tenth largest website.
Finally, with all the data and graphs that we have, when did Twitter start its rise from small startup to cultural star? January 2009, it turns out. Look at these graphs from Alexa and Twitter. The first graph is Twitter’s reach, and the second is the total tweets sent in Twitter:
So in aggregate what do we have? Well, hardly a Twitter slowdown.The data just says one thing: growth.
Twitter has been exploding all around the world, growing its user base and total produced content every month. Were you thinking about writing Twitter off in 2010? You just might have to rethink that one.
Twitter grew 1400% in one year, wow!
Is they don't watch it they will become victims of their own success !
Great information. Thanks for a great post.
And they say Twitter is dead! I think not. I believe that business users are coming on board with Twitter, as with a lot of other Social Media websites. Many are using it to offer resources to others to help promote themselves and their companies online.
Business users are helping to boost the growth of Twitter. This, along side the Aps that link with a lot of the other Social Media websites, why would you not use them all?
With the Search Engines (Like Goole) Indexing Social Media websites, this trend will only increase as people become more and more aware of the power of Social Media on the Internet.
Thank you for an informative piece.
When I started in Social Media it seemed as if Facebook was the most important Social network due to its size, activity and features. After working with many Social Networks for myself and my clients I see that Twitter is the most misunderstood and wildly powerful Social Network available. I’m watching the trends of course but I’m seeing the power of Twitter.
Victor
http://www.twitter.com/victorcanada
Very interesting statistics. I would be keen to know what the number of Twitter visitors were during June/July 2010 – during the Soccer World Cup. It must have gone up tremendously over that period.
That is interesting the growth of twitter and how everyone now measures it in Tweets, and not connections. Does that say something about Twitter itself?
Cool Stats..
Hmmm i was not expecting twitter as the 10th most visited website of Pakistan. I don’t find much Pakistanis on twitter. But still i believe on you. :D