I remember about 6 months ago when our house finally got a DVR, and me excitedly telling my friends about it. But instead of sharing in my joy, they all blankly stared at me wondering, you didn't already?
That's the same reaction I had yesterday when I saw a Wall Street Journal article about Twitter finally surpassing MySpace in unique monthly traffic.
I wasn't at all surprised about Twitter outpacing MySpace, but I was shocked (and I doubt I was the only one) that it hadn't already passed MySpace years ago.
Even more surprising were the numbers themselves. Twitter had 96 million unique visits in August, a 76% increase from the same time last year. But Twitter just barely beat out MySpace's 95 million August visitors, and that's after the original social networking giant took a 17% hit to their traffic. This makes Twitter the 3rd-most trafficked network behind Facebook and Microsoft's Windows Live network.
Both companies are hoping for significant growth over the next year or so, with the new Twitter.com launch getting positive reviews and the upcoming overhaul from MySpace.
Still, if Twitter were tell me they surpassed MySpace last month, I'd probably just blankly stare at them wondering, you didn't already?
