Twitter Traffic Exceeds New York Times, Wall Street Journal
Anyone questioning the reach of Twitter only has to look at this new fact: Twitter now has more web traffic than The Wall Street Journal or The New York Times.
Of course Facebook is much, much bigger — but for some reason non-users tend to take Facebook more seriously than Twitter. It’s probably the Harvard connection and the similarity with MySpace. Twitter is a different animal. It’s more interesting.
And now it’s more visited online than the New York Times and Wall St. Journal sites. That’s pretty incredible. Of course Twitter doesn’t create original content. Does it?
The story goes on to answer its own question. Of course there’s original content on Twitter. Tweets can link to blog posts, articles, videos, audio, etc.
And if you pay attention, you can find news on Twitter before it appears anywhere else. I have.