Search Content


Content Categories



The Oprah Winfrey Effect on Twitter

On April 17, the day when Oprah Winfrey joined Twitter by sending a tweet from her Friday TV show, share of US based visits to the Twitter site increased by 24% and some 1.2 million new users signed up for Twitter on that day alone.

twitter and oprah winfrey

The traffic chart from Hitwise shows the daily market share of visits to the Twitter website from January to April.

On April 17, the day when Oprah Winfrey joined Twitter by sending a tweet from her Friday TV show, share of US based visits to the Twitter site increased by 24% and some 1.2 million new users signed up for Twitter on that day alone.

And this looks all the more impressive because Twitter is already the 69th most visited website in the US.

The Oprah Winfrey Effect on Twitter - Published at Digital Inspiration (RSS)


Related Platform Edition Articles

Who "CAN" provide enterprise apps?


The SaaS blogosphere has been abuzz these last couple of days discussing Sergey Solyanik’s assessment that Google’s culture is “not fit” for enterprise apps. We’ll say up front that Appirio runs our internal communication and collaboration using...

Read more about Who "CAN" provide enterprise apps?...

Article Marketing-5 Secrets to Better Back Links


One of the chief benefits of any article marketing campaign is the inducement of a large volume of high quality one-way back links. However, links do not just magically appear by posting your article to a article directory or blog. It needs to two...

Read more about Article Marketing-5 Secrets to Better Back Links...