Twitter has been an incredibly interesting startup company to pay attention to and still is. When the service was initially gaining popularity it was plagued with frequent downtime, and that made it difficult for it to maintain a constant growth in users. Those problems have been fixed for a while now and twitter has been allowed to grow without technical limitations holding it back. The end of 2008 resulted in 752% growth from the end of 2007.

Starting 2008 with 500,000 unique monthly visitors and ending with 4.43 million unique monthly visitors is very impressive. There has been additional interest when some popular people with mainstream attention started to use twitter, and even some fakers that imitate famous people (they are usually entertaining to read). Barack Obama had a strong following on twitter during the 2008 election and used it as a method to reach people across the world that wanted to stay up to date on the election, but has since stayed inactive during the transition period of entering the white house.

While listening to the radio, I heard a commercial that mentioned that they were on twitter. There are restaurants that have a note on their menu mentioning that they’ve joined twitter. It provides great exposure and gives people who have interest in what you have to say with what they want. Twitter is something to continue to watch as more and more people and companies join and start using it. More and more companies are building it into their website design using twitter’s great widgets. It is such a barebones concept that it has the potential to become something huge.

Kurt
Internet Marketing Group
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