Twitter users are a fickle bunch!
According to Neilsen Online, a company who measures internet traffic and sells the data to advertisers, Twitter users are a fickle bunch. They assert that 60% of people who sign up for Twitter don’t return to the site after a month.
Maybe someone needs to educate Nielsen about the nature of Twitter. It’s not just a web based service, you can use it via email, from your phone or from one of the amazing number of dedicated clients for just about every platform from the iPhone to your average pocket calculator (well that’s an exaggeration, but you get the point). Neilsen only measures the web traffic so of course they see a drop off as Twitter users get more savvy and move to a client that better suits the way they Tweet than the venerable old web UI.
This reminds we of the kind of lack of understanding you see from politicians when they pass ridiculous laws that try to treat modern communications technology like hard wired telephones. It just doesn’t work.
Twitter Quitters Just Don’t Get It – Business Center – PC World
Twitter suffers from disloyalty, says metrics firm | Web Services | Macworld.
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