Twitter Sees Big Gains In March
comScore has released its monthly analysis of U.S. consumer activity at the most popular online properties for March 2009.
The month saw the obsession with “tweeting” gain momentum as Twitter more than doubled its visitor base, ranking as the top-gaining property for the month.
“Twitter has certainly become an Internet phenomenon over the past few months, but March represented an especially big gain for the site as it added more than 5 million visitors versus the previous month,” commented Jack Flanagan, executive vice president of comScore Media Metrix.
“With numerous celebrities and media personalities – including Oprah – recently jumping on the Twitter bandwagon, the site shows no signs of slowing.”
Google sites continued to be the most popular property in March with more than 151 million visitors, followed by Yahoo sites with 146 million visitors and Microsoft sites with 122.3 million visitors. Facebook moved up one spot in the ranking to #9 this month with 61.2 million visitors.
April 27th, 2009 at 12:16 am
yeah twitter is gaining popularity at rapid rate , I think it could also beat facebook in few years
April 27th, 2009 at 3:28 am
This is surprising news for me. I did not expect so large difference between Facobook and other listed real estate. Thank you for this information.
May 1st, 2009 at 4:48 pm
I agree, it might surpass Facebook because of its simplified format and quick updates. Facebook seemed to have stolen a page out of the twitter book with their latest upgrade focusing on “twitter-esq” updates.
May 4th, 2009 at 11:05 am
I noticed myself following ever more people on Twitter because i see other people communicating with them. I cant stand to see only have the conversation.