September 21, 2008

3 million Twitter users

On June 29, 2008 I wrote on this blog that Twitter reached 2 million users - according to Twitdir. Twitter has passed another milestone a few days ago, 3 million users. As Twitdir only "knows" Twitter users with a public profile, the actual number of Twitter users is higher, as discussed in this blogpost.


The growth of Twitter users follows an exponential curve - at least until now. If the same trend continues, 4 million will be reached around mid November. Around Christmas the 5 million mark will be reached. 6 million will be reached around mid January 2009 and 7 million around Mid February. Whatever the trend will be, I will continue to monitor this trend.

8 comments:

lambday said...

great news.

if only


100 hundred could follow me,
it would be fine. xD

Andrew Finkle said...

IN 12 months, we will look back and see that Twitter will be the fastest growing SN (SN's with over 1M users) EVER. On my blog, I suggest 50M users within 2 years.


www.twitter.com/A_F

PS - Great blog!

@CostaRica said...

Hello!
When are you writing about Costa Rica? According to our own calculations we were third in Twitters per capita in Latin America... http://twitters.costa.rica.cr/post/43368849/twitter-latinoamerica

bvlg said...

@costarica

for an analysis of the twitosphere in Costa Rica, have a look at this post

Twittnic said...

hi there, is there any chance tha u could do some analyse the Nicaraguan twitosphere.

That would be great for us in order to gain more twitter users.

Greetins from Nicaragua

Tim said...

Can we get an update to this post? Thanks!

www.Twit2Win.com www.Twitter.com/Twit2Win

bvlg said...

Unfortunatly, the main source for the number of Twitter users - Twitdir.com - is down. So up to date information on the number of users tracked by Twitdir is currently no longer available.

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