Twitter traffic up 9% after Google real-time search launch
After the launch of Google’s real-time search , in December, I predicted that Twitter would get a boost in traffic after declining visitor counts since peaking during the summer of 2009. Looks like I was right. ComScore data show the number of unique visitors to Twitter increased by 9 percent from December 2009 to January 2010. The 21.79 million unique Twitter visitors in January was an all-time high, just over the 21.25 million visitors that comScore tracked in July 2009. December 2009 unique visitors were up 3.1 percent over November, so Google’s real-time search, which launched on December 7, appeared to have impact on Twitter for the month of December as well. Data from Experian Hitwise data suggest that Google is the main source of the additional traffic — the share of Twitter’s traffic coming from Google increased by 9 percent when comparing the week ending December 5 to the week ending February 13 (from 12.8 percent to 14 percent)
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Twitter traffic up 9% after Google real-time search launch