The Twitterverse

Just had a friend e-mail me some stats on Twitter...and this is a guy who should know. Thought I'd just take a moment to share them with you.

• Twitter is gaining an average of ~7,000 users per day...
• ~18% of Twitter's users have joined within the past 60 days...
• ~70% of Twitter's users joined in 2008
• The most tweets take place on Thursday of each week (probably folks lining things up for the weekend)
• Tweets drop off 25-30% over the weekend...
• ~30% of Twitter users have >30 followers...
• Twitter Traffic has grown over 1,164% in the past 12 months and is up 16.5% in the past month alone (Compete.com statistics)
• Twitter has approximately 22 Million unique visitors per month.
  
• The average number of people someone is following is ~70
• The amount of people that follow a person or group will in large part be determined by how many people or groups they follow.

Currently there are millions on Twitter and other social networking websites. These, through the right kind of usage and positioning can be valuable tools to business and fantastic methods of communication between individuals.

We look forward to seeing you in The Twitterverse!