Technology rankings and Twitter

Late last year, I used my TECHNOLOGY RANKINGS algorithm to score Twitter. This was when the general population was first beginning to really embrace Twitter and the tech bloggers were convinced it was a fad.

In my rankings, however, Twitter scored very well. With the exception of MONETIZATION of content, the service had done quite well. Since then, they have become more HYPERLOCAL and more MOBILE. Not surprisingly, they are one of my highest rated technologies.

Yesterday, their founder gave some numbers and once again, the rankings algorithm proved dead on correct. Just saying...

Twitter CEO Evan Williams just announced that his service has 145 million registered accounts and almost 300,000 apps using its API.

Total mobile users has jumped 62 percent since mid-April, and, remarkably, 16 percent of all new users to Twitter start on mobile now, as opposed to the five percent before we launched our first Twitter-branded mobile client. As we had hoped in April, these clients are bringing more people into Twitter, and, even better, they are attracting and retaining active users. Indeed, 46 percent of active users make mobile a regular part of their Twitter experience.
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