Compete’s July newsletter highlighted the explosive growth of TweetMeme in the last 3 months.
Aggregator site Tweetmeme crushed it in July, ramping traffic by 85% month over month to 11.8MM UVs, suggesting that there is some real value in combing through the noise and offering consumable information.
I’ve been hearing for over a year now that Twitter is the social news killer. That the future of sites like Digg and Reddit is to succumb to Twitter.
TweetMeme’s rapid growth is the first real evidence I’ve seen of it. But this evidence is compelling!
TweetMeme provides those retweet buttons that bloggers can embed on posts so readers can quickly RT the link. TweetMeme also tracks how often the link is retweeted. On their homepage, they show the hottest links being tweeted.
Looking at the Compete charts below, there are a lot of people are going to tweetmeme.com to find interesting news/links. In the last 6 months, TweetMeme has gone from basically zero to nearly 12 million unique visitors.
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Tweetmeme.com Unique Visitors Last 12 Months
Before we get too far ahead of ourselves, let’s compare TweetMeme’s 12m visitors to Digg. They still have a long way to go, but if TweetMeme continues on this trajectory, they could catch Digg in 6 months.
Tweetmeme.com vs Digg.com Unique Visitors
Just for kicks, let’s compare some other social bookmarking sites like Reddit, Delicious and Stumble.
The Reddit and Stumble lines closely overlap. (I don’t know if Compete tracks the Stumble toolbar. Probably not. These numbers look way too low.)
Look at how TweetMeme has already surpassed Reddit. And it’s growing like crazy and the other social news sites are staying relatively flat.
TweetMeme vs Digg vs Delicious vs Reddit vs StumbleUpon
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