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Number of mobile Twitter users by 62 percent increases

More and more users access on the go to Twitter (screenshot: ZDNet) since mid-April, the number of Twitter users who access via a mobile application on the micro-blogging service, has increased by 62 percent.. The CEO Evan Williams has announced in a blog entry. Accordingly, 14 percent of the users use the mobile site of the company, 8 percent and 7 percent of iPhone app for Twitter Blackberry. Another 8 percent publish tweets via SMS.

In addition, the proportion of new users who access the mobile Internet on Twitter, rose to 16 percent since April, so Williams. Before the start of Twitter’s own iPhone app, the share had been as high as 5 percent.

In the blog entry called Twitter-chief of the reason for the purchase of the formerly known as Tweetie application that has been available since May under the name Twitter for iPhone. Tests have shown that users could not choose one of dozens of mobile Twitter clients, because it had not been with “twitter” in their names.

Twitter also has its own apps for other mobile platforms to offer. One result of the efforts is Twitter for Android. Around the same time, Research In Motion have released Twitter for Blackberry.

Use 78 percent of the Twitter users continue to default, according to William’s website. It also played an important role in other applications. For example, there were almost 300,000 registered OAuth apps for Twitter, an increase by a factor of three corresponded since Twitter’s developers conference in April chirp. With OAuth allows users to save data to a website and allow another access to it. Developers can also offer alternatives which tweets to publish to read without special client or not.

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