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05-27-2014, 09:51 PM
Report: Twitter Will Have Nearly 400 Million Users by 2018
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Better late than never.
Twitter (http://mashable.com/category/twitter/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) is projected to top 300 million users worldwide in 2016 and have nearly 400 million users by 2018, according to a new report from eMarketer (http://www.emarketer.com/). That might sound like a lot in the aggregate, but the data shows just how much Twitter's user growth is slowing on a year-over-year basis.
See also: Will Twitter Ever Be Mainstream? (http://mashable.com/2013/10/04/twitter-ipo-mainstream/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
To make matters worse, Twitter execs had reportedly (http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304163604579528052762561952) expected to hit 400 million users in 2013. If eMarketer is right, it will take at least five additional years for Twitter to hit that milestone.
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Twitter reported having 255 million (http://mashable.com/2014/04/29/twitter-q1-earnings-2014/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) monthly active users in the first quarter of this year, up from 204 million for the same quarter a year earlier. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/05/27/twitter-user-growth-2018/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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Better late than never.
Twitter (http://mashable.com/category/twitter/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) is projected to top 300 million users worldwide in 2016 and have nearly 400 million users by 2018, according to a new report from eMarketer (http://www.emarketer.com/). That might sound like a lot in the aggregate, but the data shows just how much Twitter's user growth is slowing on a year-over-year basis.
See also: Will Twitter Ever Be Mainstream? (http://mashable.com/2013/10/04/twitter-ipo-mainstream/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
To make matters worse, Twitter execs had reportedly (http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304163604579528052762561952) expected to hit 400 million users in 2013. If eMarketer is right, it will take at least five additional years for Twitter to hit that milestone.
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Twitter reported having 255 million (http://mashable.com/2014/04/29/twitter-q1-earnings-2014/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) monthly active users in the first quarter of this year, up from 204 million for the same quarter a year earlier. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/05/27/twitter-user-growth-2018/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
More about Twitter (http://mashable.com/category/twitter/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) and Business (http://mashable.com/business/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/mash.to/rss;pos=atf;tag=ad;mtype=standard;type=rss;sz=300x 250;ord=1401205598 (http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/mash.to/rss;pos=atf;tag=ad;mtype=standard;type=rss;sz=300x 250;ord=1401205598)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/oAmpPR4Ix34