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Great post, but as a side note: "Twitter has 145m users in the same way @MikeTyson has $400m in career earnings." http://twitter.com/AndySwan/status/2288034
by ivankirigin 16y ago
Great post, but as a side note:
"Twitter has 145m users in the same way @MikeTyson has $400m in career earnings."
http://twitter.com/AndySwan/status/22880346280 http://twitter.com/AndySwan/status/22880346280
- jiganti 16y agoYeah I was wondering about this, surely they didn't have 145 million "users" as in "created accounts", which is typically the definition. I imagine someone who checked the website once is part of their "user" tally.
- ivankirigin 16y agoTwitter has been quoted claiming 176M unique visitors a few months ago. That stat makes sense for a site like nytimes.com, but not for a social network. The number of active users is close to a standard in the industry. When Facebook says it has 500M+ users, they mean people who have accounts and have visited the site in the last 30 days. Thing is that everyone knows the right stats to publish. They only use 145M because is sounds better than (the more likely) 70M active. This doesn't come as a coincidence as Twitter is trying to start selling ads. Attractiveness to advertisers is directly proportional to audience size.
- dabent 16y agoI noticed this post from Biz (his first since July 7th) and compared it with this analysis of a post from Ev: http://social.venturebeat.com/2010/09/03/twitter-ecosystem-apps/ http://social.venturebeat.com/2010/09/03/twitter-ecosystem-a... It seems to me that a couple of people are trying to show how much value there is in Twitter, like a orphaned puppy looking extra adorable for possible new owners. Just saying.