2nd September 2009
Twitter saw a surge in website traffic last week that saw it become more popular than MySpace in the UK for the first time.
This is according to new figures from Hitwise, which show that Twitter accounted for one in every 400 UK website visits in the week ending August 29th to become the 27th most visited site overall - beating MySpace by one place.
Previous statistics from Hitwise have shown soaring growth for Twitter since the start of the year, with the microblogging site seeing a tenfold increase in traffic in the 12 months to January and a 27-fold surge in the year to February.
As Robin Goad of Hitwise commented, it is likely that Twitter is more popular than the figures indicate as many people access Twitter from mobile phones and third-party applications.
"The social networking rankings are changing pretty fast in the UK," he added, noting that Twitter is now the fourth most popular social network and is closing in on Bebo in terms of traffic.
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