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Where 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
by whopa 17y ago
Where 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...