75 percent of traffic comes from third-party clients

Apr 15, 2010 09:29 GMT  ·  By

Twitter is holding its first-ever developer conference these couple of days, Chirp, and the ‘information network’ came out in full force on the first day. Given the rising tensions between Twitter and its developers over the past week, it now looks like the company managed to do more than damage-control, it got most of the developers back on its side. Twitter packed in a lot of information for just one day, so we’ll start off with some interesting stats that it has unveiled for the first time.

One of the biggest questions when it comes to Twitter has been, especially for the past year or so, ‘Just how many people are using Twitter after all?’ There were plenty of numbers thrown in, the latest estimates put it at above 70 million, but it was very hard to know exactly, since many used mobile or desktop apps rather than Twitter.com.

106 million users

Well, now we know, Twitter has almost 106 million registered users, 105,779,710 to be exact, quite a lot more than anyone had guessed. That makes it one of the largest social networks in existence, though it can be argued that Twitter is not a social network, per se. Still, it puts it on comparable terms with the seemingly unstoppable Facebook, which has over 450 million users. And Twitter isn’t stopping, it adds about 300,000 new users every day.

180 million monthly visits

And those users aren’t sitting idly by. While it’s unclear how many of those registered users are actually active, the ones that are put out about 55 million tweets every day. It gets even better, Twitter sees 180 million unique visitors each month, according to its own numbers. That’s significantly more than its registered users, since most of the content is publicly available for everyone. Again, the traffic numbers put it on the same playing field as major players like Google, Yahoo or Facebook.

75 percent of traffic from apps

Speaking of traffic, another number that was widely speculated on has been revealed. Twitter gets 75 percent of its traffic from third-party applications, be them mobile or desktop apps. Interestingly, 37 percent of active Twitter users employ mobile apps to connect. That would be great number for any other web service, but, for Twitter, it could have been higher. In any case, it looks like Twitter is still growing, despite concerns, and might become a serious player if it can maintain the inertia.

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