Via Silicon Alley Insider’s Chart of the Day:
Twitter Unique Visitors Compete.com
According to Compete’s figures, Twitter’s traffic nearly doubled from February 2009 to March 2009 from 8 million to 14 million unique visitors.
In a previous post, I had predicted Twitter’s traffic according to comScore would double from February 2009 to March 2009.
comScore’s March 2009 traffic figures for Twitter are due out later this week.
After much rumbling in the Twittersphere today about lost avatars and fail whales – Twitter has decided to get things caught up.
Twitter Down
Although I can’t grab their tweet now, someone in my Tweet stream mentioned Twitter uses Amazon servers for service.
Could Amazon be having troubles keeping up with Twitters’ growth?
Twitter has begun testing real time inline search within some Twitter accounts.
From the Twitter blog:
Currently, a small subset of Twitter users are trying this new search feature in the sidebar of their Twitter home page. When you do a search, you don’t go to another page, the relevant tweets instantly show up where you’d expect them to—right on your home page where tweets love to be.
I have the new Twitter search box in my account and find its inline search results much more convenient and practical.
Twitter Real Time Inline Search
As Twitter accummulates user search data, they will be able to parse the Twitter audience into segments which is a requisite for monetizing their ever increasing traffic.
Twitter Audience Segmentation
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WeBuyFollowers.com
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The Yahoo Search Marketing team has begun posting to Twitter.
From the Yahoo Search Marketing blog:
We tweet throughout the week on our latest activities: about new products, from conference panels, and of course, with posts from the Yahoo! Search Marketing blog.
The official Yahoo corporate blogger is tweeting as well.
We’re not the only ones at Yahoo! serving up Twittery goodness. Nicki Dugan, the corporate blogger at Yodel Anecdotal, tweets on everything that the rest of Yahoo! is doing.
Follow Yahoo Search Marketing on Twitter @YahooAdBuzz
Yahoo Search Marketing Twitter
In the not too distant future, comScore will release its traffic stats for a variety of different web categories and properties for March 2009.
One web property’s traffic many observers will be following closely is Twitter.com.
According to comScore during the month of February 2009, Twitter.com had 9.8 million unique visitors while Facebook had 275.6 million unique visitors and Myspace had 123.5 million unique visitors worldwide.
Based on my research, I am going to predict Twitter.com will have twice its February 2009 traffic in March 2009 – 19.6 million unique visitors.
Thinking out loud…
Innovation by definition isn’t incremental so why write about incremental improvements?
I am also getting bored with the perpetual stream of incremental improvements that come from every imaginable corner of the world of technology.
So some extemporaneous thinking here:
Gootter.com would be the name of the merged services from Google.com and Twitter.com.
Twitter is an answer engine looking for the right questions.
Google is a question engine that already has the right answers.
Gootter.com will answer your questions before you ask them.
Organizing the Twitter audience will prove key for Twitter and its users to monetize their Tweets.
TweetTrail.com segments the Twitter Audience albeit through manual searches.
TweetTrail.com
TweetTrail.com is a pretty cool tool.
Search for Twitter users by the frequency of Tweets containing your market related keywords to identify and follow potential leaders in your industry’s niche.
The following Tweet Trail search produces the top twenty Twitter users whose Tweets contained Adwords.
Top 20 Adwords Tweeters
I am not sure how far back TweetTrail.com mines Tweet data for keywords.
Recently I have noticed Twitter has begun reducing the amount of search history available for some search terms.
I would guess Tweet Trails keyword histories are also constrained by the same parameters Twitter now imposes on Twitter search.
Twitter has switched account holder update pages to Ajax from the previous interface.
Prior to the switch, scrolling Twitter updates required a cumbersome page reload and wait time which has been replaced by a simple “more” button.
Twitter Results Scroll
Pressing the more button produces a list of the 20 most recent Tweets of people being followed.
This new design lets Twitter users scroll their updates on the web more quickly and efficiently.
Today while logging into Twitter, I noticed my account now features the Twitter Search box in the upper right hand corner of the page.
Placing Twitter Search atop Twitter account pages makes using their search feature much more likely.
Searching Twitter before the search box required scrolling to the bottom of the page and clicking Search or having to navigate directly to Twitter search in another browser window.
Having search on the same page will keep Twitter users on Twitter’s site.
Twitter Search
Clicking on Search takes users to Twitter’s real time search box where Twitter users can “See what’s happening – right now.”
Twitter Trends
Searching Twitter produces a list of the 15 most recent “real time” Tweets containing the searched term.
Search Twitter
Just to the left of the Search Now box, Twitter also provides a “Trends” drop down tool box.
Clicking on Trends takes account holders to a list of Twitter’s Top 10 most mentioned terms.
Twitter Trends Toolbox
Click on any one of the terms to reach the real time stream of Tweets for any of Twitter’s Top 10 Trends.
Here Twitter also provides a list of Tweets containing the Trending term along with a list of Matching users and Featured users like it does on their “realtime results” page.
By providing Matching and Featured users Twitter gives its users a chance to explore topics they have already confirmed they have an interest in.
Matching Users Featured Users
Twitter has also pushed links to both the account holder’s “Profile” and “Settings” to the Twitter users home page.
Name, Location, Web and Bio information are still found on the Twitter account holder’s public page.
Twitter Profile
By placing account related links on the “What are you doing” page, Twitter has reduced the number of clicks required to navigate Twitter account while also simplifying overall Twitter account management.
Twitter Settings
If the web continues to account for the majority of Twitter’s use as previously reported, surely adding search to every Twitter account will increase both Twitter’s use and usefulness further.
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