If web traffic is an indication of Twitter’s popularity, it surely is rocking in India as well.
The growth from March onwards has been phenomenal and I believe, a lot of this has been achieved by embracing of the micro-blogging platform by mainstream media.
Twitter Traffic in India
If you notice, Twitter has beaten smsgupshup in terms of web traffic (smsgupshp claims to have 20 million userbase, and is clocking $150K USD a month)
We earlier covered the traffic growth of Twitter in India and no matter how minuscule it is, the micro-blogging platform is grabbing a good amount of media attention (reinforced with Mallika Sherawat’s visit to Twitter office).
Mallika Sherawat at Twitter HQ/Office
And now that Indian media is all over Twitter, will blogging die a slow death? Or be restricted to few individuals only?
What’s your take?
Aside, it’s always inspirational to see a startup hitting the hockey stick curve – no matter whether it’s an Indian or a global!
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It is good to see the adoption rate of Twitter increasing in India.
SMSGUPSHUP had a tremendous opportunity and they are blowing it away by spamming their users.
short and crisp description. Like you said, the mainstream media has given the boost — plus the usability of twitter during crisis (mumbai blasts) have also given the surge.
Any idea anyone why mobile updates functionality is no more there?
Is it gonna be yet another story of blowing away an opportunity for silly immediate gains?
Believe it or not, gupshup’s problem was the enormous funding they received from a VC who did not understand or appreciate twitter or shall I say Internet business .(same old problems with these dork of Indian VCs …)
The funding just forced gupshup guys to focus on non existent revenues rather than building a business to sell by increasing user base ..
Imagine what a great opportunity it would have been if they would have chosen to do later especially when facebook / google are trying hard to acquire twitter .. gupshup would have been a very good buy .. but let’s not worry abt spilt milk .. now gupshup, you can choose to sell now in the hope of salvaging something at least or wait for the eminent slow death ..
BTW Helion is doing a great job in finding duds firstly NgPay, now Gupshup .. way to go ..:) (is it any better than investing in Guruji / Minglebox?). These a#$ h#l#s will later claim that there are no good companies in India worth investing ..
Mallika is wearing the same dress here http://movies.rediff.com/report/2009/jul/16/spotted-mallika.htm
He he , good catch. Amazing that you could locate the URL.
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