Twitter Posts 131 Percent Growth in March

April 17th, 2009

In what has emerged as Web 2.0′s latest phenom, Twitter’s membership is growing by leaps and bounds. According to comScore Media Metrix, Twitter saw 9.3 million visitors in March. That’s an increase of more than five million visitors, or 131 percent, from February.What’s causing Twitter’s exponential growth? Is it the media attention? The Google acquisition rumors? The viral nature of Web 2.0 technologies? All of the above?

“One interesting theory alluded to by several people in last week’s discussion was that the mainstream media attention on Twitter is really helping fuel its growth. And there may certainly be some merit to that,” said Andrew Lipsman, a senior industry analyst at comScore. “It seems you can’t get through a typical newscast anymore without some mention of Twitter.”

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