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eMarketer Underestimates Twitter Growth

Data aggregator eMarketer estimates that Twitter will have 18.1 million users by 2010.  According to Compete, Twitter currently has just over 14 million users in the US.

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My belief is that number will be more than 50 million by the end of next year. I could be completely wrong. We’ll see.

Update: Twitter is very near 20 million visitors already.

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Related: Hitwise documents the “Oprah Effect” on Twitter visits. She’s now up to almost 500K users in about 5 days.

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This entry was posted on April 22, 2009 at 4:27 pm and is filed under Social search/community, User-generated content. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “eMarketer Underestimates Twitter Growth”

  1. » Why Twitter Is More Appealing Than Blogging Search Engine Optimization Journal - Search Optimization Blog Says:
    April 24, 2009 at 12:22 am | Reply

    [...] by 2013. AdWeek says Twitter had 6 million users last year. Compete.com says there are currently 14 million users in the [...]

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