Twitter Traffic Surpasses NYTimes.com, WSJ.com In April

PaidContent notes that for the month of April, Twitter surpassed both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal in unique visitors, according to Compete data.

PaidContent attributes Twitter's surge to three factors: the Oprah bump, increased attention over the Ashton Kutcher vs. CNN race, and "non-stop coverage from tech and media blogs."

In April, according to Compete, Twitter drew 19.4 million unique visitors, while NYTimes.com drew 15.6 million and WSJ.com drew 12.2 million. This was Twitter's second month topping WSJ.com but its first beating the New York Times. In March, Twitter drew 14.0 million unique visitors, while the Wall Street Journal website drew 12.0 million and the New York Times site drew 16.7 million.

See the Compete graph below:

Comments

[Paramendra Bhagat]

And why not? http://technbiz.blogspot.com/2009/05/eminem-relapse-twitter.html

[Ravyn]

Idiotic. 140 characters blogs can't be compared to full length news articles, blogs, commentary or essays published by newspapers. Not to mention no one pays for Twitter and it doesn't have any advertising to speak of much less subscriptions.

[davidwayneosedach]

Needless to say there is a big difference between Twitter postings and the NYT's.

[Loki11467]

What a stupid article. How many page views does Twitter have vs the newspaper sites?

Does the press have nothing else to write about?

[Christopher in NYC]

From WIkipeida:

... and the decline of the Amercian Empire was further attributed to its Twittering itself to death, as the minds of its citizens had atrophied to a capacity and attention span of 140 characters or less.

[Mintcondition]

Will someone please explain Twitter is and how it works and if it is worth joining?
Thanks

[Myshkin57]

Twitter is a site on which you can find out who is going to the bathroom and when. You either text when you're going to the bathroom from your phone or computer and then everyone who wants to know about that can find out about it AS IT'S HAPPENING!!!

If that sounds like something interesting to you, it is worth joining. If not, read a book or do something worthwhile with your time.

[Antifascist-08]

Twitter Twaffic?

Who cares? Here today, gone tomorrow. Or should i say, here this second, gone.....

Twitta twitta twitta...

[dthom403]

It doesn't matter. Twitter has h.orrible retention. 60-70% of people who go to twitter wont be back in a month, that's according to nielsen media research

[MurrayAbraham]

And I am sure many porn sites have even higher traffic.

What a useless comparison!

[Da Centrist]

I'm marginally famous and I'm in the supermarket buying toilet paper.
OR
the former Vice President Dick Cheney confirmed that Bush signed off on torture techniques

More important or wasting time - you decide

[SteveS]

It takes a while in twitter to find your niche, there are a lot of marketers and a lot of people who want to tell you what they are doing at that very moment. But once you find your niche, it is probably the best internet tool ever for communicating and relaying information.

Blogs were known to be instantaneous and made newspapers seem obsolete because newspapers couldn't get the information out until the following morning. Well, twitter beats blogs. I don't think it will make them obsolete though. You really cannot spread information faster than twitter.

[Vaas]

I found twitter to be more useful than technorati n stuff. Twitter leads traffic. This service for sharing text updates with friends proved itself a veritable rapid-transit system for breaking news, and soon it was this micro-content production house that became the check-digit for the established blogging pro.

http://talk-english.blogspot.com

[MaidinMossyCreek]

Twitter is boring.

[EgyptianMysterySchool]

How empty and meaningless does your life have to be for you to fill your life w/ other people's lives?

[Antifascist-08]

Right on. Just keep blogging until you are not actually doing anything in your life.