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.

Twitter's Biz Stone on the Colbert Report

In response to the readers request, here is the video of Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, on the Colbert Report of Comedy Central about why we twitter, who twitters, and where Twitter is going.

That's what he said exactly: "We are recognizing the differences now between profit and value... Right now, we are building our value. That means we are expanding our service worldwide."

I have heard complaints from Twitterers that the website's service has become instable recently. Maybe expand your bandwidth first?

Twitter Is Over Capacity

Two minutes ago, I was trying to log onto Twitter to post my new blog entry, but I was having difficulty. Twitter says on its front page that:

Too many tweets! Please wait a moment and try again.

A few days ago, Twitter's co-founder Biz Stone said on The Colbert Report that they were not at the stage to worry about revenue now. The goal is to catch the momentum and drive up the traffic. Well, they just officially made it!