Twitter Traffic Slows as Money Increases

You might say Twitter is "in the money." As Murdok previously reported, Twitter has been raising funds at a $1 billion valuation. Twitter CEO Evan Williams

While the graph above doesn't count Twitter use via mobile devices and third-party app (which certainly account for a lot of Twitter's use), Hitwise notes that visits to Twitter.com should still show some correlation to new use adoption.

Hitwise also tracked the number of searches on Twitter (below). Both visits and searches at Twitter.com hit what Hitwise refers to as a "resistance point" in April.

Finally, Hitwise looks at reports for Twitter's top traffic sources, comparing April to last week. The charts reveal a significant drop between the two.





It's hard to really put Twitter use into perspective without some kind of stats that reflect mobile and third-party app use. The slowing traffic growth is interesting though. It's hard to believe that it is occurring, considering that you can't turn on the television or radio without hearing about some new celebrity discovering Twitter. Perhaps