Posts Tagged with "Hitwise"

For Google size is everything

Thursday, September 10, 2009

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You probably didn’t notice the subtle change that occured on the Google homepage yesterday. I’m guessing that at a glance you still wouldn’t know if I held up before and after shots of the page. As reported by Mashable, Google have said they have increased the size of their search box to remind us that [...]

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Twitter statistics: UK traffic increased 22-fold in year

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

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Robin Goad, Research Director of Hitwise UK revealed some interesting statistics regarding the growth of Twitter today. Writing on his Hitwise blog, Goad reported UK traffic to the micro-blogging site has increased 22-fold in the last 12 months. That growth has meant that Twitter.com has leapt from the 969th most visited site (May '08) in the UK to 38th (May '09). The most impressive aspect of that growth is the fact that 93% of it has come in the first five months of 2009 alone. As Goad rightly pointed out, that number in all likelihood should be even higher if you factor in the vast number of third party applications such as Seesmic, Tweetdeck and Twitterific that people use to access Twitter remotely.

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