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January 21, 2009

Twitter enjoys ten-fold increase in web traffic

By Dominic wireposts

Web metrics company hitwise reveals that “micro-blogging” service Twitter has increase ten-fold over the last ten months – making it the 291st most visited website in the UK.

HItwise points out that because many Twitter users access it via their mobile phones – the real popularity could be even higher.

Press Gazette has been using Twitter for around a year. By having an account with Twitter – every time a story appears on our website Twitter followers are sent a message.

At time of writing www.pressgazette.co.uk has 781 followers on Twitter.

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