Following on from my last post, 10 new stats showing the fast growing popularity of social media, I thought I’d give a quick update on where Twitter is at in terms of recent growth.
These new stats have been revealed over the past few weeks. They show that Twitter is quickly becoming a real(time) media force to be reckoned with. Even though the younger Twitter is nowhere near the size of Facebook, these stats show that Twitter is certainly growing up fast.
- Twitter now has close to 106 million users.
- Twitter is attracting 190 million visitors per month.
- Twitter is generating 65 million Tweets a day, or 2 billion tweets per month.
- Twitter sees around 135,000 new registrations every day.
- There are 600 million search queries on Twitter per day (real-time search revenue anyone?).
- In April 2010 Twitter announced that there were 100,000 applications for Twitter. In Dec. 2009 the company reported 50,000 Twitter applications.
- Applications account for 75% of all tweets.
- 37% of active Twitter users connect to the service via mobile applications.
- Tweetmeme recently had over 500 million retweet buttons served in one day, 15 billion a month.
- Tweetmeme’s retweet button is now on almost 200,000 websites.
It makes me wonder: where will Twitter be at a year from now? It’ll also be interesting to see how their new revenue generating activities go over the first 12 months or so.
