Since Twitter jumped onto the scene, people have been wondering when the end of Twitter will begin. It seems it finally has. Quantcast is a respected service that measures traffic on Web sites. Some sites are measured directly (via coding placed on the site) while others are measured indirectly (no coding, only estimates). Twitter is in the latter group, but no matter how you slice it the site’s traffic (graph to the right) is dropping quickly and has been since the summer.
So while athletes seemingly flock to Twitter to post their rantings, it seems their fans are not. That won’t stop us from continuing with our Outsports Twitter feed. Some of the other Twitter accounts you may be interested in: John Amaechi, Dave Pallone, Dan Woog. Plus, some Outsports contributors and members have Twitter feeds too: Joe In Philly, Canmark, Matt Hennie…feel free to share a link to your Twitter feed in the comments section!
on Dec 10th, 2009 at 3:15 PM
I like my Twitter. I also use it to change my Facebook status so I don’t have to do it in 2 places.
on Dec 10th, 2009 at 4:57 PM
I’ve turned my twitter into a quick digest of news that I check in the morning. Mix in some new sources, sports teams and networks, random players and other famous people…. hopefully it keeps me from missing any stories.
If anyone wants to follow the gay sports blog I write, I have a twitter for it. @widerights
on Dec 11th, 2009 at 1:05 AM
Saying this is “the end of Twitter” is ridiculous. If you click on the Quantcast link above and click on the Range settings to change it from 6 months to 1 year or “all,” it tells a much different tale: that of a slight dip after a meteoric rise.
on Dec 11th, 2009 at 8:16 PM
Twitter isn’t dying.
As with any popular website, people join when it makes news. If people are talking about twitter, people are going to flock to the website. Not everyone is going to become a solid, continuous user.
Not to mention now, with twitter applications for your computer and for your phone, people are dodging the website altogether. You can read what people are tweeting, and tweet, without visiting the website.
Just saying….
on Dec 11th, 2009 at 8:24 PM
http://twitter.com/DruggyBear
on Dec 18th, 2009 at 4:01 PM
Cyd stick to sports. You misread the Twitter stats badly. Twitter is changing in complexion on how it’s being used. It’s pretty apparent you don’t understand the underlying architecture and new direction of Twitter and 3rd party developed apps. As has been pointed out by several in this blog entry, the Quantacast stats miss a lot of alternative Twitter traffic.
Twitter is a major part of the “always on” society and is actually being leveraged for other uses now that aren’t registered through the main site.