Twitter Trends and Statistics
Heather Hopkins of Hitwise, UK has posted some interesting graphs which allow for the comparison of Twitter users in the UK and US. If we are comfortable with the Hitwise methodology (which I'm not intimately familiar with - note that the Alexa data for Twitter is almost identical with the Hitwise data for the US), then it does suggest a marked difference between the UK and the US. In the UK, it looks like the honeymoon is over - not so in the US.
It is interesting to compare this with the latest view from BlogPulse which tracks conversation around Twitter. While there is a clear down turn in the graph, as in the Hitwise data above, it is a little too early to really read anything in to this.
Heather comments:
Based on US internet visits, Twitter.com ranked 1,736 last week among Net Communities and Chat websites and ranked 2,149 last month (among 6,144 websites).
I am not yet ready to say that Twitter has tipped. Perhaps it has among technophile bloggers. [Whilst] the site shows promise it has a way to go before it reaches a mass audience.
Waxy.org has been using the index numbers associated with each status in Twitter to estimate growth. One of the charts he produced suggests a clear burst of activity, again associated with the SXSW event.
[via Rubel]
A really interesting metric to track regarding Twitter would be the average posts per account per week.
I suspect it would spike around Web 2.0 related-events like SXSW.
Posted by: Steve Wilhelm | March 16, 2007 at 11:25 AM
Well I'm not impressed with Twitter.
Posted by: Rose | March 16, 2007 at 03:37 PM