Google’s Real Time Search Increases Twitter Traffic By 9%
Google very recently launched real-time search which included Twitter tweets about the hot news that was going on. A research by Digital Beat on this new integration has revealed that there has been a increase of traffic for the social networking site, Twitter.
comScore: Graph analyses the traffic
The statistics from ComScore show that there has been a little increase in traffic than the normal traffic that the social networking site was getting usually. In January this year, Twitter got 21.79 million unique visitors which was pretty much higher than that of 21.25 million visitors (calculated on July 2009). There was a 3.1 percent increase in the traffic, in December when compared with the traffic in the previous month. So, the real time search which was introduced on December 7 has caused a great impact on Twitter’s traffic.
Experian Hitwise collects some data on this aspect. The graph above shows the increase in the traffic that is driven to Twitter through Google. There has been a 9% increase in the traffic that Twitter got from Google in the time period of December 5th to February 13th.
