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el 30-Apr-2008 |  "A source close" to Twitter provides TechCrunch with what is supposedly the first realistic assessment of Twitter usage stats. Conclusion: It's a lot more popular than it used to be, but still confined to a tiny swath of early adopters:
March 2008
Total Users: 1+ million*
Total Active Users: 200,000 per week
Total Twitter Messages: 3 million/day
Assuming these stats are accurate, or reasonably close, they're much more useful than the numbers from Hitwise, Compete or Comscore, which track visitors and visits to Twitter's site itself: We've heard that as much as 70% of Twitter usage happens away from the site, either on mobile phones or via one of the many Twitter apps.
The good news for Twitter as it tries to raise a C round: Its March stats show considerable growth: There were supposedly 50,000 active weekly users in in April 2007, and 100,000 in January. The less good news: It's still a niche service, and one without an obvious business model.
Update: Our own source close to Twitter tells us that as of three weeks ago, the service was up to 1.3 million users, with nearly 4 million "connections" -- Twitterers following each other. It's that second stat that speaks volumes about Twitters' appeal to its users.
See Also: Twitter Raising Money; How Much Is It Worth?
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| fav.or.it Founder Fires at Twitter and the Blogosphere, Fixes Twitter for Free |  Call it a modern anomaly, herd mentality or whatever else you want but Twitter seems to continue to grow in popularity as its downtime issues get more pronounced. Amidst recent news of a successful funding round, Twitter’s problems keep getting worse as buzz throughout the blogosphere questions Twitter’s staying power. Is it really that hard [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 27-May-2008 by Zach Epstein in NetworksServicesdowntimefav.or.itNick HalsteadstabilityTwitter
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| Building Your Twitter Presence Part 3 - TweetBaiting |  Last week in my 5 Tips to Grow Your Twitter Presence post John suggested that an additional strategy to grow your follower numbers in Twitter is to target bigger Twitter users for conversation.
The logic behind this is that if you can get them to reply to you and even have a multiple part conversation with [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 11-May-2008 by Darren Rowse in Social Media
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| Twitter: Developers Love Us! | | Are developers really bailing on Twitter? That's what blogger/developer Jesse Stay says.
Not true, says Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, who tells us via email that rumors of the service's [..] Read complete article | | Published 20-Jun-2008 by Silicon in General
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