New Twitter Usage Information
Are you using Twitter yet? Have you set up an account but still don’t know what to do with it? Still looking for a good reason to really apply some time to this social media platform to start connecting with your customers and friends? We use Twitter for business every day here at FirstTracks. We prospect for new clients, we meet new professionals in our immediate area, we ask questions, and we share our expertise as well. Check out the most recent statistics released directly from Twitter at their most recent developers conference Chirp just a few days ago.
- Twitter has 105,779,710 registered users
- 300,000 new users sign up per day
- Approximately 60% of them are coming from outside the U.S
- Twitter receives 180 million unique visitors per month
- 75% of Twitter traffic comes from third-party applications
- 60% of all tweets come from third-party apps
- Since the new Blackberry application was launched, it has accounted for 7 to 8% of new sign-ups
- There are 600 million search queries on Twitter per day!
- There are over 100,000 Twitter applications
- Twitter gets 3 billion requests a day through its API
- 37% of active Twitter users use their phone to tweet
(Stats provided by Twitter via Hubspot.)
Now those are some serious numbers.
What stands out the most for me is that there are 600 Million search queries on Twitter per day. 600 MILLION PER DAY. You could hardly classify those numbers as a “fly by night operation that only the kids are using” now can you? This is again proving that there are not only a lot of people on Twitter and joining Twitter it’s that there are a lot of people USING TWITTER. Can your business really afford not to be participating and be findable through this massive real-time network of people? Looking over the numbers today that answer has been more affirmed as a definite no.
Still not sure how to apply this to your business? Then you should give the FirstTracks Marketing Group offices a call at 603-924-1978 or fill out our request form. We would love to hear from you and help get your business up and running on Twitter with a sound business strategy that will build your business and return you revenue.
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Really amazing numbers! I need to get back onto my Tweet Deck!
Good luck with that Bob, hope it’s not as hard to remember that password as it is every time we try to get into your Gmail account!
Twitter marketing strategy also works well when readers are asked to retweet. If you can build the image of a discrete marketer who also focuses on what the readers like, some of your readers will be more than happy to spread your tweets around. As your visibility increases, so does your market value. Focus on these few points to get the maximum out of Twitter.