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Tokyo most active city on Twitter, SF #2

ReadWriteWeb reports that Twitter is really blowing up in Japan. A Japanese version of the site was launched earlier this month after the company realized that a large portion of its users were coming from Japan. “[T]he signs are that Japanese Twitter usage is set to explode in popularity - Twitterlocal shows that Tokyo is currently by far the city with the most Twitter usage.” San Francisco comes in at number two. Read the story.

One thing clear about the numbers: they’re going up

Internet monitoring group Hitwise has release an analysis of Twitter that counts it as still a niche site, but with incredible growth. “Year on year, Internet visits to Twitter.com are up 8 fold. In the past three months, visits have more than doubled and traffic continues to climb, up 60% in the past month.” Read the story.

TechCrunch downplays those numbers “since so much of the action on Twitter occurs via mobile phones, instant messaging and desktop clients … most active users rarely visit the website.” TechCrunch puts forth its own numbers from a “source close to the company”: Total Users: 1+ million, Total Active Users: 200,000 per week, Total Twitter Messages: 3 million/day. Read the story.

Is Twitter worth $150 million?

TechCruch reports today that Twitter is being valued by possible VC funders at $60 million on the low end, and $150 million on the high. So much for something so simple? The key is in the number of users, which the story says has exploded recently accounting for a doubling in traffic between February and March. Read the story.

Chris Pirillo says Twitter replaces RSS

Speaking to some folks from the Demoines Tweetup, uberlifecaster Chris Pirillo explains how Twitter has supplanted RSS feeds for him. He says he no longer visits websites or subscribes to feeds and instead relies on the flood of information from Twitter.

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