Is Twitter saturated?
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Is Twitter saturated?
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#2Is this just visits directly to twitter.com? or does it reflect visits via twitter's api?
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#3Is this just visits directly to twitter.com? or does it reflect visits via twitter's api?
I presume it's direct visits. But looking at the charts for seesmic and tweetdeck, if we assume the cumulative unique visitors to these two services in the past year all downloaded and use the service at least once a month, it adds maybe 5-10m users at a guess.
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#4Is this just visits directly to twitter.com? or does it reflect visits via twitter's api?
Even if it doesn't track the API, the plateau still reflects the declining amount of users signing up (those have to visit front page).
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#5Considering that twitter experienced something like 500% growth in 2009, it's probably for the best.
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#6Is this just visits directly to twitter.com? or does it reflect visits via twitter's api?
I presume it's direct visits. But looking at the charts for seesmic and tweetdeck, if we assume the cumulative unique visitors to these two services in the past year all downloaded and use the service at least once a month, it adds maybe 5-10m users at a guess. http://siteanalytics.compete.com/seesmic.com+tweetdeck.com/
there are also a large group of people who only use twitter on their iphones/blackberrys, its probably hard to say anything from stats from compete.
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#7This is the 3rd time someone has posted something like this (once by the same submitter http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=880575).
It's a fairly useless metric to look at second hand reports of twitter's website traffic. If you have a bump in new users they would naturally use the website, as some of them left and the users who stuck around learned how to use 3rd party clients you would see a drop in website traffic.
Now does it signify that twitter isn't picking up new users at the same pace, perhaps. But when you think about the last 12 months I am not sure how they could sustain that pace (between Obama, Oprah, etc).
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#8It's not just Twitter. http://twittercism.com/twitter-growth-nov-09
Is it "Social Networks"?
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#9So my startup uses Twitter as an extension of our news aggregator, as another way to distribute links that "go popular" with our users.
Since June, we've kept up our same tweeting frequency and the quality of the stories has even shot up a bit.
But referrals, click-thru's and retweets are down to about half of what they were in August. We were scratching our heads about this for a while. Maybe a lot of the folks living on Twitter over the summer, retweeting our stuff moved on to some shiny new toy once fall hit?
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#10So my startup uses Twitter as an extension of our news aggregator, as another way to distribute links that "go popular" with our users. Since June, we've kept up our same tweeting frequency and the quality of the stories has even shot up a bit. But referrals, click-thru's and retweets are down to about half of what they were in August. We were scratching our heads about this for a while. Maybe a lot of the folks livi…
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