2009-07-02
post/134197558
quote 16:31:08
Ninety-three per cent of Twitter’s growth has happened in 2009.
BBC Newsbeat - Traffic rockets to Twitter site.
On the grounds that popular == the suck, that explains a lot. Also, interesting (to me anyway) that this is on the Newsbeat site, not BBC News proper (unlike this story about being able to buy followers).