Thanks to a Twitter from Steve Rubel who did some probing at Technorati on “Twitter”. (I know- not a perfect process either- no data source is near it.)

Technorati

Any Authority
Posts that contain Twitter per day for the last 30 days.

A Lot of Authority

Posts that contain Twitter per day for the last 30 days.

Some Authority

Posts that contain Twitter per day for the last 30 days.

A Little Authority

Posts that contain Twitter per day for the last 30 days.

Looking at Google Trends for the term Twitter over all time, and perhaps more fascinating the term Twitter for just 2007 you see a steep slope. (No notable traffic for misspellings or twitter.com). A caveat, of course, about Google Trends- “Google Trends aims to provide insights into broad search patterns. As a Google Labs product, it is still in the early stages of development. Also, it is based upon just a portion of our searches, and several approximations are used when computing your results. Please keep this in mind when using it.”

Milan, Italy and London, UK are runaways according to the chart, as it stands now, in terms of type-in traffic.

1. Milan, Italy

2. London, United Kingdom

3. Phoenix, AZ, USA

4. Irvine, CA, USA

5. Austin, TX, USA

6. Helsinki, Finland

7. Montreal, Canada

8. Auckland, New Zealand

9. Bologna, Italy

10. Brentford, United Kingdom

By region- Italy, USA, UK and Canada show strong volume.

1. Italy

4. Canada

5. Romania

6. Hong Kong

7. Russia

8. Turkey

9. Israel

10. Argentina

Italy? I wonder if twitter means something else in Italian. I don’t think so.

Technorati, CNN, BBC Video and Google News all have Twitter channels. I find that remarkable on its own given the lack of authentication. At any rate it is worthy to note this entry The Asymptotic Twitter Curve while we are on graphs and trends…

The interesting thing about Twitter-it is conceptually barely touched at all. Last night I spent some time helping a friend work on a metaverse (Second Life- yes of course.) to “Real World” relay service. One or two exist, but not to our liking. It uses the Twitter API, and twitter as an optional and ultimate destination. During testing I could easily so how Twitter, again as a CONCEPT, can be extended to be a whole lot more. The nice thing about Twitter is that you can set your limits. I don’t want SMS, or IMs at all- too disruptive. I am just fine interacting via the web. If there is someone I don’t want to follow- I can leave. Vice versa.

User Control. Experimental Communication. Micro-production. Micro-intake. Niche. Amateur creation. Monetization. Syndication…it is an interesting future- with silly service names and it will be dominated by everyday people- people with a passion.

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