Twitter Trends

I just had a look at the information Google Trends presents for search argument "Twitter".



There is a sharp increase for search volume around March/April 2007, followed by a stabilization from June 2007. For news items there is also a sharp increase around March/April 2007. The volume of news shows however a declining trend.

Google Trends also presents interesting additional information.


Region : Japan and Taiwan on top, USA only in fourth place
Cities : top 4 locations in Japan, followed by Taipei, Taiwan, first US location is San Francisco
Languages : Japanese is by far the most frequently used language.

Does this indicate that Twitter is a big hit in Japan and Taiwan, and less successful in the USA ?

Compared to two rivals - Pownce and Jaiku (recently bought by Google) - Twitter is getting a higher search volume. Furthermore Google Trends does not report news items for Jaiku and Pownce. These observations from Google Trends indicate that Twitter could be far more popular than Pownce and Jaiku.

Twitter : Buzz statistics from public sources

I have compiled statistics from a few public sources tracking the buzz refering to Twitter.com.

Blogpulse

Technorati

Icerocket


The sharp increase in number of blogposts or websites refering to Twitter.com detected by the tree public sources is gone. There seems to be a stabilisation or slight decrease of the number of blogposts refering to Twitter.com. Perhaps the explanation is very simple. People are either using Twitter.com or ignoring it. Those who ignore it do not write about Twitter anymore. Those who use Twitter do not write about Twitter on their "normal" blogs but continue to publish Twitter messages. This blog is another case, reporting on Twitter.com and the Twitosphere.

PS The trends graphs shown above look remarkably similar to the graphs showing the visitor statistics in the previous post on this blog.