Twitter growing 25 times faster than Facebook

Have you seen the latest stats from Hitwise on Twitter? They reveal Twitter has grown by more than 3,000% in the last year. Between February 2008 and February 2009 Twitter’s share of UK traffic increased about 33 times. With facebooks recent homepage update looking for like Twitter you can see facebook are trying to mimic this growth success.

Twitter is what some call a micro blogging site (which falls under the main group of social networking), and according to co-founder Biz Stone there will be a paid-for “commercial” accounts available soon with additional features unavailable to casual users. Mr Stone said that businesses and individual users will still be able to use Twitter for free if they wish to, and that “for-sale” features will be add-ons.

Traffic to the micro-blogging site, which launched three years ago, has overtaken traffic to the homepages of the UK’s major newspapers, including the Sun, the Guardian and the Telegraph.

Followers is the name of the game, the more followers you have the bigger network you have to tap into. Average 'tweets' or mini posts are recommended at 3 times a day!

So what have been my experiences of Twitter for one of my own personal websites? Well it has introduced me to more retailers in my given retailer sector and increased subscribers to my on site newsletter. I only tweet 3 or 4 times a week so it goes to show that there are successes to be had even if you have minimal time to dedicate. So what do i tweet about, site updates mainly and maybe general chit chat on my retailer sector.