Twitter Explosion & Wichita?!?
Posted on March 15, 2011 in Social Media in Wichita Kansas by JuggleMedia
Twitter will be celebrating it’s 5th birthday here in a few days and while the tremendous growth worldwide is important to consider, what do businesses around Wichita need to consider when it comes to this rising giant?
Consider these:
- Twitter will soon be celebrating the fifth anniversary of the first tweet, and the company Monday released a set of stats showing how huge the service has become.
- It took three years, two months and one day to get to the billionth tweet. Now there are a billion tweets a week.
- A year ago, people sent 50 million tweets a day. On March 11, 2011, the tally was 177 million.
- There were 456 tweets per second after Michael Jackson died in 2009. That record was broken on New Year’s Day this year with 6,939 tweets after midnight in Japan on New Year’s morning there.
- There were 572,000 new accounts created on March 12, 2011; there were 460,000 new accounts created daily, on average, in the past month.
- Mobile users increased 182% in the past year.
- Twitter has 400 employees today, compared to eight in January 2008.
So what can that mean for a business in Wichita? Are we experiencing the same growth here?
The short answer, in my opinion is no. Twitter’s growth, along with other powerful social media technologies, are slow adopters in a mid-sized, conservative town. Sure, there’s the early adopters that have been tweeting for 3 years, but the masses aren’t signing up…yet.
Twitter’s Wichita growth is coming. More and more people are interested in the network as more and more national seminars, campaigns and social media consultants promote the 140-character network. At JuggleMedia, we are working with more and more local Wichita businesses to understand the technology; what it means, how it works and most important, what’s in it for my business.
If you have a hard time understanding Twitter, maybe this video will help. Click here. We compare Twitter, in simplest forms to text messaging and mobile devices. We believe it kinda helps.
Reach out if you need more Twitter training. Shoot us an email via the form on the right or call us at 747.9266.
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