Twitter Used by 16.4M US Internet Users, Will Growth to 27.7M by 2013 [STATS]

Twitter will reach over 20 million US adults by the end of the year, and will grow to reach over 27 million by the end of 2013. While these numbers aren’t quite as impressive as Facebook’s, they do paint a picture of a niche social information network that is growing steadily.

These numbers from from an eMarketer report released Thursday which compared Facebook and Twitter’s growth and penetration. And while many are interpreting these numbers to show that Facebook is simply the “better” and more popular network, Twitter is certainly holding its own amidst an increasingly crowded social web.

eMarketer predicts that Twitter’s growth will surpass 26% this year, reaching about 9% of US Adult internet users or 20.6

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