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This is the 3rd time someone has posted something like this (once by the same submitter http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=880575 http://news.ycombinator.com/i
by javery 17y ago
This is the 3rd time someone has posted something like this (once by the same submitter http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=880575 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=880575).
It's a fairly useless metric to look at second hand reports of twitter's website traffic. If you have a bump in new users they would naturally use the website, as some of them left and the users who stuck around learned how to use 3rd party clients you would see a drop in website traffic.
Now does it signify that twitter isn't picking up new users at the same pace, perhaps. But when you think about the last 12 months I am not sure how they could sustain that pace (between Obama, Oprah, etc).
- whopa 17y agoWhere is there concrete evidence that a significant chunk of Twitter users use 3rd party apps? Desktop apps have horrible conversion rates, and I don't see why Twitter apps in particular have any reason to buck this trend. Whenever there are articles like these about Twitter's traffic numbers, people always bring up 3rd party app traffic making up the difference, but nobody ever provides any references to back that up.
- javery 17y agohttp://blog.programmableweb.com/2007/09/10/twitter-api-traffic-is-10x-twitters-site/ http://blog.programmableweb.com/2007/09/10/twitter-api-traff...
- whopa 17y agoThat's raw API traffic, not user numbers. An app that polls Twitter every minute is of course going to generate a lot of requests. But if only 10% of Twitter users use 3rd party apps, the web metrics are still more meaningful than API use.
- javery 17y agoMajority of Twitter users use a third party app: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/twitter_users_and_the_third_party_clients_they_use.php http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/twitter_users_and_the_t...