Twitter Traffic Explodes by an Annual 1382%

Do you know over 60% of the 7 million unique Tweeters are, surprisingly, not teens who gossip about school and prom dates, but adults between 35-65 years old?

Well, this recent demographic shift has caused an explosion in Twitter's traffic, a staggering increase of 1382% from 475 thousand just a year ago. See chart on the left.

Not only its traffic soared, Twitter has also been in the spotlight.

Computer World said "Twitter traffic skyrocketed thanks to middle-age tweeters," USA today exclaimed Twitter's surging traffic is deafening. BlogPulse, an online traffic metric site, followed up with a chart to show that in March 2009, the number of blog posts about Twitter has taken up 1.2% of the total blogsphere.

In a time where everything is pointing downwards, the uptick is definitely a confidence booster for the founders of Twitter as well as anyone else dying for good news.

So here comes the ultimate test: Now Twitter has made it in expanding its user value, we can't wait to see whether user value would eventually translate into greenback.