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Is Twitter loosing its chirp?

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

Mashable reported today that Twitter’s Phenomenal Growth Suddenly Stops or has slowed to a trickle since Nielsen reported a massive increase in time spent on Twitter in  total minutes rose by a phenomenal 3712% from April 08 to April 09.

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It could mean that Twitter is hitting a plateau and the buzz surrounding the platform is waning this month.  Nielsen’s findings are that there is only 40% retention rate of users. As the hype that has drawn users to Twitter wears off a slowdown in growth of Twitter can only be expected.  Twitter could “only” expect a  10% growth if rate of that trend continued, but lets face it, thats not a bad number

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