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The Big Twitter Take Over

Is Twitter taking over as the king of the social networks?

 
Sam Lammond





theguardian.co.uk, 18/10/2013, 10:27 GMT



  
 Twitter Logo, Credit: www.prconversations.com

By now, almost everyone has heard of the social networking giant 'Twitter'. But how big exactly is Twitter? The statistics are incredibly surprising.

Created in March 2006 by  Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Noah Glass and launched in July 2006 Twitter is a lot younger than a lot of it's rivals (Facebook, MySpace etc.) however, this has not deterred it from overtaking slightly older social networking sites such as bebo in terms of active users.

Although Twitter may be a long way off overtaking Facebook in terms of active users (Facebook has 1.15B active users, whereas Twitter has a mere 190 million) it is catching up slowly but surely with 135,000 new users daily.

So, Twitter may not be the 'king of the social networks' just yet, but is it only a matter of time?

Bibliography

http://www.jeffbullas.com/2013/10/09/60-sensational-social-media-facts-and-statistics-on-twitter-in-2013/

http://www.prconversations.com/index.php/2011/08/using-twitter-for-pr-events/

http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter

 


   

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