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The fastest growing minority

September 17th, 2008 by Jon Clements

 

Figures from Nielsen Online reported on Mashable show Twitter to be taking off like nobody’s business, with users growing 422% on last year and sticking around on the site for 7 minutes on average (a veritable lifetime online).

Still, Jeremiah Owyang refers to this (unsurprisingly via Twitter itself) that in the context of social media networks, Twitter’s 2.3m users is small beer when compared to the hulking 100m registered Facebook users.

So, as a Twitterer myself, I now know what it feels like to be in an official minority and a growing one at that. Makes you want to pick up a placard and demand your rights!

 STOP PRESS: Robert Scoble (again, on Twitter) says he’s seen Twitter “all over CNN”.

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4 Responses to “The fastest growing minority”

  1. Rob Brown Says:
    September 17th, 2008 at 3:27 pm

    Looks like you’ve got the bug.

  2. Jon Says:
    September 17th, 2008 at 3:29 pm

    Yes - until the next bug comes along.

  3. Jeremiah Owyang Says:
    September 17th, 2008 at 8:53 pm

    Well, the three of us, you, me Scoble are all early adopters. But it’s important to stick our heads out of the sand and look at the big picture. 2.3 uniques (While it’s growing fast) isn’t massive social movement. Still early days, early days.

  4. Jon Says:
    September 18th, 2008 at 8:18 am

    Thanks Jeremiah
    Was at a bloggers’ get-together last night and Twitter was the talk of the town. Will be in major use at the UK Labour Party conference in Manchester this week, so I guess it’s safe to say Twitter’s on the move in the UK.

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