2008 ended 753% with Twitter growth

The past year for the lion’s majority of companies that run their business on the Internet and real life, as we know, ended in a far from positive way. The financial crisis (the same one as the world one) brought the economies of the largest industrial countries to the bottom, after which small / medium-sized businesses and ordinary people in the USA, Europe, Russia and Asia began to suffer. But in the open spaces of the network there is one, scary to say, start-up, which doesn’t care. Because the one who earns nothing can not lose, respectively.

Twitter , which (or more correctly, “in which”) in the second half of the past year, not only all advanced bloggers began to talk, but also the world's largest print media, due to the highest speed of information dissemination and its availability, showed phenomenal growth for the year in 753% - in December 2008, the total number of unique visitors was 4.43 million. In December 2007, this figure did not exceed 600,000, and in the last month alone, the twitter audience increased by a million users. It is worth noting that due to the nature of the service, almost every visitor is also a registered member of the community. Not Facebook, of course ...


Which, by the way, according to the results of the past year, by 1/10 of the corps overtook now the second most popular social network - MySpace. It is clear that the situation will not remain in its current state, and both of the portals in the coming year will conduct a fierce battle for the participants and visitors. And we, as usual, watch. Where is my popcorn? ..

via Mashable