Twitter Statistics you'll have to RT!

10 December, 2009

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Category: Social Media

Twitter's success over this past year has been incredible to watch. Who knew that such a 'simple' concept could have had such an impact on the digital world?

What's even more interesting about Twitter is the statistics that plot it's success. As our clients, peers and readers know, we love interesting statistics and facts! So we bring you a year of Twitter.

• 1,382% year-over-year growth in February 2009.
• Total unique visitors grew from 475,000 in February 2008 to 80,00,000 (eight million) in March 2009.
• Twitter was the fastest growing member community site for the month of February 2009.
• Facebook (228%) was the second and third-fastest growing online community.
• In February 2009, adults ages 35-49 had the largest representation on Twitter – almost 3 million unique visitors from this age group (almost 42% of the entire audience).
• 62% of the audience access Twitter from work only, while only 35% access it only from home.
• Twitter is all about mobile: In January 2009, 735,000 unique visitors accessed Twitter via their mobile device.
• The average unique visitor visits Twitter 14 times during a month.
• The average tweeter spends an average of 7 minutes on the site.
• In Q4 2008, 812,000 unique users sent or received Twitter text messages (via AT&T or Verizon cell phones).
• Over this past year, 2009, the average tweet per person was nearly 240.