TrafficEstimate.com Blog » compete.com http://blog.trafficestimate.com Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:00:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Twitter Claims 190 Million Monthly Visitors http://blog.trafficestimate.com/twitter-claims-190-million-monthly-visitors/ http://blog.trafficestimate.com/twitter-claims-190-million-monthly-visitors/#comments Tue, 08 Jun 2010 18:55:22 +0000 admin http://blog.trafficestimate.com/?p=173 Twitter is claiming that they are now receiving 190 million monthly visitors and 65 million tweets per day. By comparison, Compete shows that Facebook had 135 million visitors in April and Twitter had 21 million. So where ever these numbers come from, it appears as though Facebook is still MUCH larger than Twitter in terms of visitor traffic.

Costolo: Twitter Now Has 190 Million Users Tweeting 65 Million Times A Day.

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We were recently pointed to this post from last month by Ben Edelman, a Harvard privacy advocate. In it, he details the data the Upromise toolbar collects and sends out. This toolbar is used by college students looking for savings on various items across the web, and can be quite useful. But until a few weeks ago, it appears they were also sending web browsing and more personal data to Compete without anyone’s knowledge.

via How Does Compete Get Its Web Traffic Data? At Least One Way Sounds Very Sketchy.

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