Comments on: A year-by-year tour of how Twitter has been taking over the world

By: tunguy3n

tunguy3n — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:17:11 +0000

wow the chart at bottom says it all from only U.S to dominating that much internationally, go twitter !! Can’t wait to see what 2010 will bring us?

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:54:46 +0000

Amazing what that company has done in such a short amount of time. Unbelievable…

By: Jon Kash

Jon Kash — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:46:30 +0000

It’s interesting to see the rise in certain countries before others with regards to who is using Twitter. I now it’s just speculation, but I am curious if you here at Pingdom or anyone really is speculating with intelligence as to why certain countries (other than the language barrier) do not respond to social media while others like Japan thrive on it.

By: medlaw

medlaw — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:31:26 +0000

The case of Japan and twitter is interesting. As you point out, the charts showing twitter penetration are dominated by English speaking countries. Then, in 2007 Japan jumps to the very top of the twitter usage chart. However, by 2009 it is not even in the top 10. What happened in Japan? Can one assume that they Japanese got over twitter? Or did they find a micro blog site they liked better? I suspect the later is the case. Here is some info on twitter rivals in Japan.
http://blog.media.asia/andyradovic/japan-clones-twitter/

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