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Re: Twitter and Facebook Post Huge Growth Numbers in March

Jason Collins — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:15:19 -0000

Not all of the Facebook growth is actually NEW users. Facebook terminates user accounts regularly which causes their new subscriber numbers to be artificially inflated when those users open new accounts.

Re: Twitter and Facebook Post Huge Growth Numbers in March

Todd Olson — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:16:09 -0000

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Re: Twitter and Facebook Post Huge Growth Numbers in March

carol deckard — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:48:40 -0000

THIS IS COOL

Re: Twitter and Facebook Post Huge Growth Numbers in March

Dave Chapman — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 05:20:43 -0000

The problem we have is that everyone wants to be 'the new facebook' - although I understand and appreciate the novelty and usability of twitter I predict that it will also lose a lot of users next year due to the 'bored now' mindset.

That said, I post all new website updates to my twitter account so our users can see the daily updates to our site.

Re: Twitter and Facebook Post Huge Growth Numbers in March

Linda Margaret — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:13:35 -0000

What's driving it is that both are equally good for discussing/discovering different ideas and articles. I love Twitter for the research time it saves me. I love Facebook for the online "discussion groups" that I get to create amongst my Facebook Friends.

Re: Twitter and Facebook Post Huge Growth Numbers in March

Brandon R. — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:16:27 -0000

The rising unemployment rate probably has a lot to do with it. It means there are growing numbers of people with internet access who are surfing the internet all day and able to check out the technologies being mentioned every where. And once you're on Twitter and checking all day, you no doubt see how useful it is for communication, community building, and information sharing.
-Brandon
@rubywahoo
@webyourcamp

Re: Twitter and Facebook Post Huge Growth Numbers in March

Crash — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 08:54:17 -0000

There are so many ways to fool usage measure, and everybody is using inaccurate methods because it makes them look good. As Liz asked above, what happened to Web 2.0 transparency?

Re: Twitter and Facebook Post Huge Growth Numbers in March

Zohaib Usman — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 08:42:17 -0000

Twitter is super fast and the growth is superb but Twitter down time is also very super duper so now is the time to think about Fail Whale not to display again and again.
But in the end Twitter Rocks :)

Re: Twitter and Facebook Post Huge Growth Numbers in March

Steven Verjans — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 07:09:53 -0000

My guess would be that the number of people that visit the Twitter site is only a small fraction of those that use third-party tools (either mobile or add-ins for browsers). That's where the beauty of Twitter lies, it's cross-platform operation...

Re: Twitter and Facebook Post Huge Growth Numbers in March

Niclas Kingston — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 06:44:38 -0000

Is it possible to promote your website threw facebook or twitter without having to pay for it? If so what is the best or smartest way to succed. I find it very hard with a limited budget to spread the word about www.alltv4u.co.uk.

/ NIclas

Re: Twitter and Facebook Post Huge Growth Numbers in March

Liz — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 06:37:11 -0000

Well, you make a good point. Except I've seen some Twitter demographic information released (gender breakdown, average age, etc.) in the past. I'm not sure now where that came from.

Information that Twitter has released (but is out of date now) are top countries of Twitterers and most used Twitter clients (Twitter.com is still #1 followed by Tweetdeck).

Re: Twitter and Facebook Post Huge Growth Numbers in March

Liz — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 06:33:21 -0000

Thanks, Adam!

Re: Twitter and Facebook Post Huge Growth Numbers in March

Gabe Mac — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 04:31:27 -0000

Get the users and the money will follow. That's what twitter is doing and why they didn't go for the Google deal yet.

Re: Twitter and Facebook Post Huge Growth Numbers in March

santa_claus — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:58:01 -0000

Rudolph!
Did you read this?

What do you think?
Can we deliver all our gifts this year
by Twitter?
Santa Claus
HO HO HO
PS. Have you been Naughty or Nice?

Re: Twitter and Facebook Post Huge Growth Numbers in March

Barbarabra — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:46:37 -0000

I believe that it is the economy. Many companies are looking for people that have social networking skills and many career advisors are encouraging people reach out to everyone and anyone that they know in order to get the word out that they are looking for work.

Re: Twitter and Facebook Post Huge Growth Numbers in March

Steve Motley — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:23:57 -0000

Twitter and Facebook Post Huge Growth Numbers in March. Approx 14 Million on Twitter and 91 Million on FaceBook currently. Can You say Exponential Hyper-Growth?

Re: Twitter and Facebook Post Huge Growth Numbers in March

Kobi Gamliel — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:20:30 -0000

Do you think that the growth of Twitter is the main cause for Facebook strength in March?

Re: Twitter and Facebook Post Huge Growth Numbers in March

VizionQuest — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:07:13 -0000

Your right, Twitter is a different animal and to some extent much less personal but that can be a good thing too. That is, it lets you get out there and meet others and contribute to a conversation. Facebook doesn't allow that kind of interaction because it's too personal; you actually have to know the person ahead of time in order to befriend them. Another strong suit of Twitter's is the ability to "follow" instead of "add as friend". Facebook's way requires reciprocal befriending that's obligatory between both parties whereas Twitter doesn't require reciprocal following. So there's much less risk of getting spammed and if you are, you can simply block or unfollow that person.

As to whether Twitter will ever have more traffic than Facebook, only time will tell. However, considering that others probably thought Friendster would never be overthrown by MySpace and Facebook would have never championed, it's a realistic possibility. It seems like social networks are fashionably popular until the next better thing comes along.

Re: Twitter and Facebook Post Huge Growth Numbers in March

VizionQuest — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 02:55:35 -0000

Yeah, great point Adam. Those photo albums do keep users coming back. I used to check my Facebook a couple times a day for messages, status updates, and shared content. Now however, I think I check it maybe once a day since I started using Twitter. Just not the same kind of real-time interaction in Facebook as their is in Twitter.

Re: Twitter and Facebook Post Huge Growth Numbers in March

frontierblog — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 02:45:22 -0000

I cannot agree more, actually I wrote a similar post weeks ago

Edward

Frontier Blog - No one ahead, no one behind
http://www.hwswworld.com/wp

Re: Twitter and Facebook Post Huge Growth Numbers in March

Shankho Mukherjee — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 01:33:28 -0000

twitter is far too anonymous. how many of your followers or twitter-"friends" do you know personally?
at facebook I would only add friends that I would also trust to give me address or phone number.

twitter will never have more users than facebook.

Re: Twitter and Facebook Post Huge Growth Numbers in March

Shankho Mukherjee — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 01:30:46 -0000

good point, but how is twitter supposed to release demographics of its users it it doesn't own any of such data? the registration for a twitter account only consists of name, username, password and email. that's all.

Re: Twitter and Facebook Post Huge Growth Numbers in March

Don Power — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 01:26:01 -0000

Mojo;

I signed up for a disqus account because I thought it was a blog auto fill thing...

But I have no idea what it is, what it does, or how to invoke it. I seem to be able to comment on this blog just fine without it...

If you can elucidate it for me, I'd appreciate it. (I never used to know what #followfriday was either until someone was kind enough to show me the rudder).

Thanks.

Don
@donpower

Re: Twitter and Facebook Post Huge Growth Numbers in March

martune — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 01:03:59 -0000

I'm just guessing the surge might also be related to the aftermath of SXSW

Re: Twitter and Facebook Post Huge Growth Numbers in March

Adam Ostrow — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:00:35 -0000

Yea, I think that's how most everyone views Twitter when they first hear about it :-) Yet, the only reason I check Facebook is status updates. That and photos - photos might be the thing that keeps Facebook safely #1, there's a high degree of lock-in b/c of the huge galleries people have.