Twitter statistics

Nielsen has released some twitter statistics which make interesting reading:

• fastest growing community site with a 1382% increase in visits Feb 09 vs Feb 08

• visits from 475,000 uniques in February 2008 to 7 million in February 2009 a 1,382 percent uplift

• User base (% of total)

-35 - 49 - 42%
-25-34 - 20%  
-55+ - 17% 



• average user accesses twitter 14 times per month and spends 7 minutes on the site


• 735k of users accessed twitter via a mobile device


• 812k SMS were sent to twitter from AT&T and Verizon networks in the US

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Comments

[Britney]

Thanks for your discussion contribution. Because of it, I have now joined Twitter to experience it and learn more about it. It is easy to use on first impression.