Category: Trends

  • Twitter at the peak

    This post addresses a question I’ve been thinking about for quite a few weeks – in fact, every time a news report or stats about Twitter are published somewhere – and talks to specific points made by quite a few…

  • Twitter squarely on the mainstream map

    Hot news in the US yesterday was the popularity contest between TV actor Ashton Kutcher (the current husband of Demi Moore) and the CNN TV network to see who would be the first to acquire one million followers on Twitter.…

  • Twitter’s explosive worldwide growth

    Data published yesterday by comScore Media Metrix shows that growth in the number of people who use Twitter continues non stop and the micro-blogging service now has nearly 10 million users worldwide. According to comScore: […] Worldwide visitors to Twitter…

  • Twitter traffic: What about mobile and third-party apps?

    Robin Goad’s post yesterday on what a Google-Twitter marriage might mean has some terrific data on Twitter traffic, like this chart which shows the growth in UK visits to twitter.com over the past year and especially in the first quarter…

  • Resonance

    I had a huge laugh at the idea of Flutter in “Think Microblogging is Hip? Try Nanoblogging!” and the rather good video parody on stereotype users of Twitter and other social networks. Especially this paragraph: […] people aren’t necessarily sick…