Has Twitter Peaked?
Written by Free Audio Books - Free audiobooks on September 27, 2009 – 6:58 pm -With news that Twitter secured $100 million in funding — double the initial projection — and netted a $1 billion valuation, this may be the first bit of bad news.
An analysis by Hitwise finds that after growing 1,382 percent earlier this year, Twitter’s growth has been slowing (see graphs below).
Mashable reports:
We’ve noticed that Twitter’s phenomenal growth has been stalling, but so have most social media sites this summer. The question is whether this trend continues into the fall or if Twitter can kickstart new user adoption with new features and new influx of cash.
Here’s a graph showing declining market-share since its peak in mid-May of just over .2 percent:
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By Mikail on Sep 28, 2009 | Reply
If we’re only talking U.S., then yes, there could be a slowdown in adoption. There’s also the younger segment who’s just turning to twitter; however, keep in mind the rest of the world is also signing up to twitter, fast!The Yahoo/Maktoob deal is a great example of fast growing internet communities outside the geographical U.S. (deal estimated at US85M. Maktoob is a regional portal in the Middle East).
Twitter’s global growth is only starting to pick up momentum. They should have raised more than US 100M, if we factored all the above.