Philip Ryan Johnson » July http://www.philipryanjohnson.com Public Relations, Teaching Social Media, and Surviving Academia Tue, 22 Jun 2010 07:16:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Is Twitter’s growth slowing? http://www.philipryanjohnson.com/2009/08/12/is-twitters-growth-slowing/ http://www.philipryanjohnson.com/2009/08/12/is-twitters-growth-slowing/#comments Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:36:38 +0000 Philip Johnson http://www.philipryanjohnson.com/?p=486

Compete.com just released data for the month of July and it appears that Twitter’s growth rate—measured as unique visitors—has taken a big hit.

While Twitter grew 16.6% in June, the site slowed to a snail’s pace of just 1.25% in July.

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What does this mean for the previously declared fastest growing social media site on the internet by Nielsen just a few weeks ago?

But—to put things in perspective—this is the second time Twitter has slowed since January. In May of this year, its growth went from 38.56% in April to just 1.47%.

One thing we can be sure of is Twitter’s 949.6% growth from July 2008 to July 2009. Impressive—but then again—even this is down from a previous 1,164% growth from June 2008 to June 2009.

What’s going on here? Is Twitter beginning to level out?

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