New data released earlier today by web analytics firm Compete.com reveals that there has been a major shift at the top of the web charts: Facebook is now larger than Yahoo in the U.S. Yahoo for years was the world’s most popular website — its ubiquitous portal has dominated the web since the 90s. Two years ago however, Google vaulted past Yahoo and became the Internet’s most popular destination. Last month, it became Facebook’s... 

Twitter’s growth has stalled for yet another month, according to new numbers from Compete and Quantcast. In fact, Twitter.com’s traffic peaked in July 2009 and hasn’t reached that level since. According to web analytics firm Compete, Twitter’s U.S. traffic grew by 1.45%, from 22.48 million in November to 22.81 million unique visitors in December, hardly numbers to brag about. It’s even worse when you consider that... 

Compete has released on its blog some figures concerning Twitter usage in the US.  Read More →

On this blog, I have been tracking the number of Twitter users reported by Twitdir . On April 28, I announced that Twitter passed the 1 million mark  Read More →