Twitter and Facebook, are the brands of the moment on the internet. These two services are the emblems of social-networking; each one specialized on different market segments. Twitter has seen the fastest growth in the last year, users around the world using this micro-blogging platform for all kind of activities, including business and text communication. Yesterday Twitter had the highest usage rate since the service started and probably today Twitter will have more users.
The measures were made by third-party companies and the collected data took in consideration only users who accessed their accounts using a browser. The mobile clients, desktop clients or those who accessed Twitter via SMS service were not counted. The source said that this is a natural evolution of the traffic, especially when an event happens and the interest for that event suddenly grows, but yesterday was not the case.
The numbers collected from Hitwise shown that Twitter had a 4% growth in December, counting the users who accessed Twitter straight from the web. However, the trend is to access Twitter using a client for an improved account management and extra facilities offered by dedicated apps. Probably when the measures will include also traffic on Twitter through clients, statistics may unveil interesting things and more realistic numbers.
via Techcrunch
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