I just read an article by Adam Ostrow on Mashable.com called 18 Million Twitter Users by End of 2009. At the present time, Twitter is just a fragment of the size of Facebook. However, it is estimated that Twitter will become more and more popular in the upcoming years. It declared that Twitter is believed to have around 18 million users by the end of 2009 and the latest calculation for 2010 is 26 million. This number is up 50% from the original number that eMarketer estimated for the end of 2009.
I know a lot of people who juggle both a Facebook and Twitter account. It doesn’t surprise me that they are calculating Twitter to reach high numbers. Facebook arrived on the scene first, but Twitter is catching up. The activity that is occurring on the website has heightened enormously during the past year. I think it will be interesting to see how Twitter’s popularity will compare to Facebook's in the future.
Thanks for pointing out this great post. We should read it in class. Twitter is exploding..it's now worth an estimated $1 billion. Not bad for a three-year-old company.
ReplyDeleteWow, I never realized there were so many Twitter users. I can see why it is projected to continue to grow for many years to come. However, I read today in one of the Yahoo news feeds that a random sample survey of Americans believed that Twitter was simply a fad that will fade away within a few years. What are your opinions on that?
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