# Trouble At Twitter: U.S. Visitors Down 8 Percent In October - Host: [techcrunch.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/techcrunch.com/) - Saved: November 16, 2009 (2009-11-16T06:25:18Z) - Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/337c878c88b6/ - JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/337c878c88b6.json ## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words) Ever since last summer, Twitter’s growth in the U.S. has been stalling. But in October, the number of people who visited Twitter.com from the U.S. actually declined for the first time by 8 percent month-over-month. Estimates released today by comScore put Twitter’s domestic unique visitors at 19.2 million, down from 20.9 million in September. On an annual basis, Twitter is still going gangbusters with 1,271 percent growth from 1.4 million visitors in October, 2008. And on a global basis, it still seems to be chugging away with 58.4 million visitors in September. But a hypergrowth company like Twitter cannot afford to slow down in its home market. CEO Evan Williams recently acknowledged the slowdown in the U.S., and hopes that a slew of new features will help revive growth to the site. Many of these features are already rolling out, including the new Retweet button, Lists, and Geolocation features. Twitter is obviously committed to making its service better on its own Website (these numbers do not measure usage on mobile or desktop clients, which is easily half of all Twitter usage). But while it fiddles, rival Facebook keeps moving further and further ahead. Will the new features be enough to bring back growth in the U.S.? If they don’t, Twitter’s troubles will really begin. Crunch Network: MobileCrunch Mobile Gadgets and Applications, Delivered Daily. ## Facts - Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/) ## Same host - [Twitter: You Say Transparency, I Say Vulnerability](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/6ef974992543/) (techcrunch.com, October 21, 2009) - [The End Of Hand Crafted Content](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/8ab2d0ad07d5/) (techcrunch.com, December 13, 2009) - [WordPress Makes Blogging On The Fly Easier, Integrates With Twitter API](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/9b557cdd18bf/) (techcrunch.com, December 13, 2009) - [Did You Get A Magic Mouse This Holiday? Download MagicPrefs Immediately.](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/69ab161d69c7/) (techcrunch.com, December 30, 2009) - [Namebench: Google’s 20% Project To Find The Fastest DNS Server](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/c86ced7e4525/) (techcrunch.com, January 1, 2010) ## Saved the same week - [StarTribune.com vs. Minnesota Public Radio’s Website](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/68ff060e2eeb/) (thedeets.com, November 16, 2009) - [New Super Mario Bros. Wii review: impressive, and then some](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/3adf3aa4d314/) (arstechnica.com, November 16, 2009) - [Dow Jones Sells Stake In Stoxx For $309 Million](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/ddda242b8ed1/) (gigaom.com, November 16, 2009) - [John Muir - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/a4c6290ee5e5/) (en.wikipedia.org, November 18, 2009) - [Salesforce.com announces Chatter, another social network for companies](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/664c74ae6e14/) (venturebeat.com, November 18, 2009) ## Elsewhere - Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/12/trouble-at-twitter-u-s-visitors-down-8-percent-in-october/