Twitter’s been the subject of embarrassing outages, spam concerns, and serious questions about its general usefulness. None of this seems to matter much, though, as new data from Compete shows that the service is growing at an extremely impressive rate.
Compete’s Max Freiert writes, “In terms of U.S. visitors, Compete has seen Twitter traffic nearly double from February to April, currently attracting nearly 1.2 million people per month.” Also, “In terms of time spent on site as a share of all time spent online, Twitter has grown dramatically – more than quadrupling” in the past 180 days.
Compete’s Data On Twitter
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The one odd thing about Compete’s “online attention” graph is the frequent occurrence of deep dips. Freiert connects these to weekends, and perhaps it isn’t ideal for Twitter that people pay less attention when they’re not chained to desks.
The service seems to enjoy an unusually high level of popularity among young people, however, and it’s hard to criticize any aspect of such rapid growth.
MG Siegler asks, “If this kind of growth keeps up, at what point do we consider Twitter mainstream?” He then notes, “Of course, Twitter has to stay up long enough for this to happen.”
