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Twitter, a micro blogging company that has captured a notable market size, always manages to stay up in the news headline. One of the main reasons that help it to be an overwhelming service would be its downtime,while number of increasing Twitter’s apps, clones and clients also contributes a lot to its popularity. News that Twitter will going to purchase Summize was also heating up last day. Therefore, despite of its continuous downtime and outages people still like Twitter a lot and consider it as a part of their daily routine.
Twitter has achieved new heights of success and continues to make remarkable progress as pointed out by Hitwise . According to a report, if we compare the current market share of visits with that of last year then an abrupt increase of 500 % would be noticed that isn’t a negligible amount. It is users, who continues to complain about its outages but do not quit using it.
Although a large number of Twitter users tweet via mobile phones, the web base traffic is also increasing with a tremendous pace. Other competitors of Twitter are not gaining that much fame and popularity. Statistics of last week shows that Twitter’s User traffic was 12 and 24 times more than the total traffic on Plurk and Friendfeed. Though Friendfeed isn’t limited to a micro blogging technique only, users still compare it with Twitter and most of them use it when twitter undergoes downtime.
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Interesting feature is, Twitter’s downtime has not been a hindrance in its popularity. The share of returning traffic that is computed by considering visitors of past 30 days is more than 50 %.
Twitter stats depicts that users love Twitter as their cup of tea. Twitterers will keep on tweeting despite of its downtime and yeah they will also keep on using this interesting piece of service instead of its growing number of better and enhanced clones.
