News: Hitwise UK: Twitter UK traffic: up 485% this year, 70% higher than USA

by Roger Kondrat on July 17, 2008

The two Heathers (Hopkins and Dougherty) have both written about the growth of Twitter in the US recently, so here is some UK data on the micro-blogging service. As you can see from the chart below, the site’s growth has really ramped up this year. UK Internet visits to www.twitter.com have increased by 631% over the last 12 months, with 485% of that growth coming this year. Twitter is more popular with Brits than Americans: last week the site’s share of UK Internet visits was 70% higher its share of visits in America.

Twitter’s size is notoriously difficult to measure, as there are so many access points (mobile phones in particular), so if anything our measurement of internet visits under-estimates platform’s popularity……. For more on this article click on the link below.

Hitwise Intelligence - Robin Goad - UK: Twitter UK traffic: up 485% this year, 70% higher than USA

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