Twitter Traffic Soaring In The UK
Tech : JR
Posted: July 16, 2008

The UK is dominating America when it comes to Twitter usage.

New analysis out by Hitwise this morning shows British use of Twitter was a full 70 percent higher than American use last week. UK visits to the site jumped a massive 631 percent over the past 12 months.

The researchers note that their measurements are probably even on the low side, as they don’t include cell phone usage and other non-traditional site traffic.

Another interesting nugget of info: Search terms containing “BBC” made up three of the top 10 searches that led UK users to Twitter in the past four weeks. “BBC Sport” was the second highest query, right under “Twitter” itself.

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  • July 16, 2008 at 7:15 am Jason Goldberg
    The Twitter #'s seem to be very different than FF. On FF, I find that conversations don't really start until it's 9am pacific time. When posting from India, Europe, or even NYC in the morning it's typically *crickets* for hours until silicon valley wakes up.
  • July 16, 2008 at 7:18 am Toby Graham
    Jason you need to make more European friends, you are right though, which is why I was asking for more UK FF users earlier today.
  • July 16, 2008 at 7:21 am Scott Lockhart
    @jason - I think it's an accurate observation... there are people posting links but not a whole lot of commenting. I guess people either need to sleep or get some work done at some point.
  • July 16, 2008 at 7:23 am Nathaniel Payne
    It just goes to show that FF hasn't gained much ground beyond the confines of the valley yet. Twitter, however, is a worldwide phenomenon.
  • July 16, 2008 at 7:34 am tommy payne
    network effects are a bitch :)

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