With every Internet fad's rise to fame, there must be a slow decline into mediocrity. Xanga, Friendster, and MySpace have all enjoyed a quick rise in fame and fortune only to be yesterday's news in a few short years.
Twitter's rock-star status may be beginning its decline, since the middle of last year when the number of Twitter users flatlined. A number of Web traffic analysts such as Compete and comScore are asking, “Has Twitter peaked?"
“Maybe Twitter was a victim of its own success," said Andrew Lipsman, an analyst at comScore, a company that tracks Internet traffic, to CNN. “It grew so quickly that it isn't meeting its own expectations."
The microblogging site hit its traffic peak with about 21.2 million visitors in July 2009, and since then has remained close to the 22 million mark.
Others are suggesting that analysts aren't taking into account the people who are using mobile devices and third-party programs to post their 140 character thoughts. But who knows; perhaps this is the beginning of the end for the Twitter-verse. Only time can tell.
Twitter's rock-star status may be beginning its decline, since the middle of last year when the number of Twitter users flatlined. A number of Web traffic analysts such as Compete and comScore are asking, “Has Twitter peaked?"
“Maybe Twitter was a victim of its own success," said Andrew Lipsman, an analyst at comScore, a company that tracks Internet traffic, to CNN. “It grew so quickly that it isn't meeting its own expectations."
The microblogging site hit its traffic peak with about 21.2 million visitors in July 2009, and since then has remained close to the 22 million mark.
Others are suggesting that analysts aren't taking into account the people who are using mobile devices and third-party programs to post their 140 character thoughts. But who knows; perhaps this is the beginning of the end for the Twitter-verse. Only time can tell.
