40 million Twitter users see only

40 million Twitter users see only
About 50 million users call on Twitter every day, 100 million at least once in the past month - but really are far less active members of the short message service. Almost half dispensed with the core functions.
San Francisco - For the first time announced the short message service Twitter, the number of active users: More than 100 million users pawls, a minimum of once a month. Half of these people use Twitter every day, company CEO Dick Costolo said on Thursday in San Francisco in front of journalists.
About 40 percent of "active" Twitter user logs in but only to read messages from other members. In most cases, these messages are public and can be read without a Twitter account, with an application you can subscribe to news from members and get them shown collected.
Since the beginning of the year, the number of active monthly users, according to Costolo has risen by 82 percent. And the influx to continue: He expects that by the end of the year another 26 million people log on to Twitter. That would be as many as in the years 2006 to 2009 together. The figures were also sent live via Twitter.
If we count the "inactive members" was added, has launched five years ago, offering more than 200 million members. Last month had 400 million users clicked on twitter.com, Costolo said. At the beginning of it, were still 250 million. The company also announced proudly that 50 percent of football players in the NFL and 75 percent of the NBA basketball players would use the service.
Which is still surpassed by U.S. officials: 82 percent of congressmen and 85 percent of senators have therefore an account. Germany lags behind something: a well-kept by the journalist Christopher Zeuch collection of twitter ends parliamentarians currently has 202 accounts of members.
For some time Twitter searches for a viable business model. The founders had initially deliberately avoided advertising so as not to deter users. Currently the company relies on paid advertising tweets to earn money - was at this point to more accurate figure, about the revenue situation, unfortunately omitted.
The top product developers as co-founder Jack Dorsey returned but stressed it was important to attract users for a good product than to make money quickly. Twitter currently has full even without an IPO cash: the company collected just $ 400 million from investors, another round of funding of up to 400 million is on target.