The Industry Standard - Twitter attracts 2 million U.S. visitors per month by July '08 - Comments

As soon as Compete.com's

Eric Hill812251 — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:51:53 -0700

As soon as Compete.com's June figures update, we can close this out.

Are you talking about the

Shiv Bhandari — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 01:41:25 -0700

Are you talking about the tag line "search within the 1 996 420 twitterers we know!" That's just the number of users, not the number of visitors to the site this month. Also, the number includes people outside the U.S.
The prediction isn't measuring how many users of twitter there are, just the number of visitors to the site. Even though I'm not a user of twitter, if I'm in the U.S. and I visit the site, it's good enough for the prediction.

Wow, per TwitDir they are

Josh Dilworth270852 — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:36:48 -0700

Wow, per TwitDir they are only 5K shy heading into the weekend. . .not that their reply woes this week did them any favors! TwitDir is a pretty reliable source for their user #'s, by the way:

http://twitdir.com/

Hi Shiv, Would you contact

Adam Bennett — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:41:51 -0700

Hi Shiv,

Would you contact me regarding a response to your above news? I wanted to know if you are aware that Bluepulse, a main competitor of Twitter averages 200 million messages a month.

Thanks, that helps.

Bradley Baker — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:05:01 -0700

Thanks, that helps.

@Bradley, I made some

Eric Hill812251 — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:19:46 -0700

@Bradley, I made some modifications to the judging source data in the rules. Thanks.

Compete appears to release

Bradley Baker — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:01:50 -0700

Compete appears to release data monthly. Can we tweak this slightly to specify using either the June 2008 or July 2008 figure? Rather than have to guess what will be used or whether we'll still have May data as the most recent on July 1st?

Twitter attracts 2 million U.S. visitors per month by July '08

Shiv Bhandari — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:19:26 -0700

Judgment on July 8, 2008:

While the trends for Twitter are moving in the right direction, according to Compete.com (this prediction's chosen source for judgment), Twitter closed for the month of June with 1,819,237 visitors - just a bit shy of the 2 million mark. In a rare instance, the community was wrong on this one. -- The Industry Standard.

Original Prediction:

This year, Compete has seen Twitter traffic nearly double from February to April, currently attracting nearly 1.2 million people per month.

It is currently growing at a rate of 30.5% per month.

This is a prediction that Compete's People Count for twitter.com will register 2 million or more U.S. visitors by July 2008.

Bets will close on 30 June 2008. The June 2008 data will be used as the source for judgement as it is made available at compete.com.