Twitter Usage Numbers Finally Emerge
techcrunch.com
techcrunch.com
my band played for a crowd of 3500 once -- that felt like a huge mass of people, but it's peanuts in web terms. it'd be fun to see random comparisons to meatspace in your site analytics. e.g., "this week, your site's active users could've sold out madison square garden 8 times" or "your monthly uniques exceed the population of maine."
And here's some quotes from the article:
"None of that data is particularly useful, since so much of the action on Twitter occurs via mobile phones, instant messaging and desktop clients"
"Note: It’s not clear what the 1 million total users refers to, since there are many more registered users"
Also, note the commenters saying that the count is higher/lower than expected. Plus some not sure what to expect. I'm not hating on Twitter or the OP, just find the data rather meaningless.
Site traffic is definitely a weak metric, and total users indeed probably isn't that interesting.
I find the 200K active users/week and 3M messages quite interesting. I admit, it would be more enlightening to know the distribution -- or at least something like the median number of messages per active user -- but that's a pretty good sense of the reach of Twitter.