Twitter: UK leads the way as early adopters
20
2008
Just back from a stay with friends in North Yorkshire and slightly distracted by the number of “tweets” I have been getting from Number 10 – the PM, Gordon Brown’s Twitter account.
Also, the BBC Tech Team, The Guardian and other have been twittering too. I love Twitter – but I don’t know why. Admittedly it’s a great way of staying in touching and monitoring what other people are up to … so far so good.
But it looks like Twitter is finally going mainstream and it’s being led by the Brits according to recent stats by Hitwise. “Twitter is more popular with Brits than Americans. Last week the site’s share of UK Internet visits was 70% higher its share of visits in America,” writes Hitwise’s Robin Goad.
“UK Internet visits to www.twitter.com have increased by 631% over the last 12 months, with 485% of that growth coming this year.”
Down with the yoof, my son uses Twitter as do his friends and the general view on the interweb is that the UK will be the region that will prove the tipping point for the platform.
I’m not convinced as most people I speak to have never heard of it but then they have never heard of blogging, Facebook, MySpace…
Any thoughts people?
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#1 John Ashton
I also twitter - thanks to you as it happens. Following your bmedia session a couple of months ago I got my ickle company well into the social networking scene. Me an Hugh MacLeod we’re like that we are.
Seriously, I do follow his twitters, which has led me in many previously unexplored directions. For example, it was he who recommended a book on this subject by Clay Shirkey entitled Here Comes Everybody. It is very good. But as you say, it’s a strange revolution when much of the population is sill utterly unaware of its existence.