Posts Tagged ‘twitter’

Social Media Marketing for Non-Profits links

Monday, June 28th, 2010
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Monday, June 14th, 2010

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Pogue sells me an iPad, new Facebook Page type, can Twitter influence be bought?, iPhone/iPad UI design tools

Monday, April 12th, 2010

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Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

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Find related links for blogging, Best tweets: Search Fest 2010, Compare finances via social, Who links to my site?

Friday, March 12th, 2010

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Facebook to send posts to Twitter, whales to follow

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

Send Facebook Status to TwitterTechCrunch revealed that Facebook will be adding a feature this week that will allow you to send your Facebook status update out as a tweet. The tweets include a link back to your status on Facebook via the new fb.me URL shortener. Read that as monster inbound traffic for Facebook.

Of particular concern will surely be the strain this will place on Twitter, as millions of users with both Facebook and Twitter accounts suddenly increase their tweet frequency. More on that from All Facebook.

Prepare to be seeing more of the Fail Whale.

How many people use Twitter?

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

UPDATE (4/15/10): The Huffington Post just posted actual Twitter user stats & figures from Chirp, the Twitter developer’s conference.

Here are the highlights:

  • Twitter now has 105,779,710 registered users.
  • New users are signing up at the rate of 300,000 per day.
  • 180 million unique visitors come to the site every month.
  • 75% of Twitter traffic comes from outside Twitter.com (i.e. via third party applications.)
  • Twitter gets a total of 3 billion requests a day via its API.
  • Twitter users are, in total, tweeting an average of 55 million tweets a day.
  • Twitter’s search engine receives around 600 million search queries per day.
  • Of Twitter’s active users, 37 percent use their phone to tweet.
  • Over half of all tweets (60 percent) come from third party applications.
  • Twitter itself has grown: in the past year alone, it has grown from 25 to 175 employees.

— END UPDATE

The actual figure for Twitter user stats is hard to get, unless you’re a Twitter employee.  Here’s a list of links that are helpful in estimating just how many Tweeters are out there.

http://www.twitdir.com displays a running total of the number of public Twitter users in it’s directory.

http://tweetrush.com analyzes number of tweets sent over the last 7 days.

http://www.twitterholic.com lists the most popular Twitter users by followers.

http://www.compete.com shows the approx number of unique visitors to the twitter.com site.

Finally, see Michael Arrington’s post about this topic on TechCrunch from April 2008.

Update:

For a look at the volume of tweets per hour and per day, check GigaTweet. Lovely graphs.

See also Quantcast’s analysis of twitter.com. These stats are only for the twitter.com web site, and do not include desktop or mobile Twitter client users.