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YouTube And Twitter Are Incredibly Popular, & Other Obvious Statements
Twitter is pretty popular. So is YouTube.
Also, the sky is blue, LeBron James is talented, and men like sports.
But beyond the stating of the obvious, those two articles linked to above have some staggering statistics. Even if you already knew Twitter and YouTube were huge, you probably still didn’t realize exactly how huge.
YouTube users are now uploading more than 24 hours of video every single minute. That means that in the time it took you to read this far through my article, another day’s worth of video has been posted. Holy cow. No wonder Google is losing over a million dollars a day on YouTube.
Twitter, on the other hand, may be breaking popularity records before our very eyes. In February, they had 9 million unique visitors. In March, it jumped to 19 million. Well, the April numbers are in, and Twitter has surged to 32 million unique visitors per month. That’s way more than an upward trend. Twitter has more visitors monthly now than the New York Times, Digg.com, or the popular business networking site LinkedIn (Twitter actually doubles LinkedIn’s 16 million monthly visitors).
Want to really have your mind blown? Consider this: Twitter’s numbers above don’t even factor people who use the service via their mobile device. And the convenience of “tweeting” from your phone is part of the site’s popularity. Who knows what their true popularity is when you factor that in… but I’d wager it’s a lot higher than you or I thought it was yesterday.
