Twitter Surpasses 100 Million Users

Online, April 16, 2010 (Newswire.com) - The site of socialization and "microblogging" Twitter has announced that it had topped 100 million users and account more attractive in coming years by facilitating access to its services through mobile devices such as mobile phones .

Improving the infrastructure of Twitter, usability, and the opportunity to present the "tweets (short messages of 140 characters published by users) based on their relevance rather than chronologically, These are among other priorities.

Evan Williams, CEO of the site of "microblogging" said Wednesday that a top priority for his company is now generating revenue - a shift since Twitter focused previously on the improving the quality of use of its services.

These comments came after the presentation by Twitter an advertising program called "Tweets Promoted" ("sponsored tweets"). This first attempt at the site of socialization for income generation is seen as a milestone for an IPO.

Twitter has also presented data identifying traffic to its site. It claims about 105 million users.

According to the consulting firm comScore, the site attracted 69.5 million unique visitors in February.

Benchmark Capital and Spark Capital are among the investors that support Twitter. After a fund-raising 100 million dollars last year, the company based in San Francisco would have been valued at one billion dollars, according to a person familiar with the matter.

According to Biz Stone, Twitter now employs 175 people, against a staff of 25 at the beginning of 2009.

Benchmark Capital and Spark Capital are among the investors that support Twitter. After a fund-raising 100 million dollars last year, the company based in San Francisco would have been valued at one billion dollars, according to a person familiar with the matter.

According to Biz Stone, Twitter now employs 175 people, against a staff of 25 at the beginning of 2009.