14 DAY TRIAL // 2010 is coming to a close and it's time for the year-end reviews. Yahoo was the first, Google published its Zeitgeist and Twitter is following. It is now looking back at the year and showing off what it achieved. Despite worries about growth slowing down, the site claims 100 million people have joined Twitter this year alone.
Twitter has set up the 2010 Year in Review site where, presumably, the microblogging platform will showcase some of the biggest and the most interesting things of the year.
It looks like Twitter will focus on five main categories and the first one to go live is "Who's New - the Celebrity Edition."
"In 2010, Twitter grew by more than 100 million registered accounts. Here's a look at some of the people that joined the Twitterverse this year," Twitter describes the new infographic page.
The 'Twitter tree' shows a timeline of the year and marks the months that some of the most high-profile new users joined. From Bill Gates, Dalai Lama to even Conan O'Brien, the beginning of the year was an auspicious one for Twitter.
The Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez made a splash in May when he joined Twitter, despite describing it as a place for terrorists just a couple of months prior. Since joining, he has managed to get more than one million followers on the site and turned a lot of Venezuelans into avid Twitter users.
From the Russian president to Tinker Bell, the rest of the year was a plentiful one for the site as well. But this is just the tip of the iceberg, with 100 million users, Twitter is certainly growing and not just with celebrities and public figures.
The year was a turning point for Twitter. While growth was still important, the site finally started to focus on expanding the service, with mobile apps and related products, but also on revenue with Promoted Ads.