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Twitter Swoops Past MySpace, Kills @Earlybird Deals

Kit Dotson | September 28th
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News of Twitter surpassing MySpace in traffic today has brought another milestone for the microblogging site, landing them at 96 million unique visitors last month. This makes them the third most trafficked social networking site on the Internet, next to Facebook (598 million uniques) and Windows Live Profile (140 million uniques). As a social networking apparatus, Twitter has a multitude of apps and widgets for almost every type of person; it syndicates to RSS and other sites easily, and connects with devices with ease. Their recent revamp of their site also drew some attention.

And from MediaMemo we hear that Twitter shut down @EarlyBird. The service, launched a mere three months ago is now being put to bed once again by the microblogging giant. They’ve begin to launch a series of other services aimed at advertising and monetizing their extremely popular feed site with Promoted Tweets, Promoted Trends, and Promoted Accounts.

Expect to see more names appearing in the Twitter homepage sidebar suggesting loudly “Who to Follow” as this ramps up.

Those companies who find followers useful will probably be looking to this in order to increase their Twitter stables. The microblogging service certainly appears to be working hard to sell itself to businesses and PR interests and with its ever rising usage (noting especially that 80% of all users access it through the website) they may yet make their goal of successfully monetizing themselves.

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About Kit Dotson

Technology and civilization walk hand in hand and civilization is nothing without the skin of society, brushing up against itself, speaking strange nothings across dimly lit avenues and computer screens. If we're going to understand ourselves in this digital era, it will be through watching the adoption of technology by people to express themselves as people. I am an anthropologist and an author of science fiction and fantasy--and with my techology, I hope to open up new and exciting worlds that both enlighten the humanity of my friends and fans, but also educate and enhance the expression of their own personhood.
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