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Future of Twitter

Future of Twitter

Indonesia has the world's fastest growth in Twitter users.  How this phenomenon could be taken advantage of by businesses however, is still not clear.  But one thing is sure, the future of Twitter could only get bigger, as the following article from Time Magazine illustrates.


Wednesday, May. 27, 2009
The Future of Twitter
By 24/7 Wall St.

Microblogging platform Twitter has 32 million users, an increase from about 2 million a year ago, according to research mentioned in the Wall Street Journal. Some Internet measurement services show that figure increasing 50% to 100% month over month. While it is not clear that Twitter will become as large as social networks MySpace and Facebook or video-sharing site YouTube, the company could certainly have 50 million visitors by the end of the year.

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