Twitter has more than 105 million registered users and the hot micro-blogging service is adding 300,000 new accounts a day, co-founder Biz Stone said on April 14. Stone, speaking at a conference for Twitter software developers here, also said that the Twitter.com website receives about 180 million unique visitors a month.
Stone, revealing the number of registered users and traffic figures for the first time, said Twitter has grown to 105,779,710 registered users since it was launched in March 2006.
Many Twitter users access the service through software applications created by third-party developers and not through Twitter.com. At the developers conference, Twitter is wooing the software makers who have helped the service rocket to world-wide stardom but now face being displaced by the company's own creations.
"It is clearly a tension and it is why we are trying to show where we are going," Twitter co-founder Evan Williams said at the start of "Chirp," the San Francisco-based firm's first developers conference.
Williams said that it is natural for Twitter and other Internet services to have mixed complementary and competitive relationships with software savants who craft programmes building on their technology platforms.
Internet stars including Facebook and Twitter have found success in letting outside developers craft fun, hip or functional programmes that enhance basic online offerings. As Twitter grows, it is starting to create its own versions of programmes built by third-party developers and even buy up firms behind some of the hotter applications.
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