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Twitter growth over 145 million people

Micro-blogging network Twitter, it seems more and more crowded with the 'tweet' of its members. In an official company blog, CEO Evan Williams, Twitter announced the developments that have occurred since Chirp Developer's Conference that was held last April.

As quoted from the site eWeek, apparently Twitter is a growth of 62 percent, and now, there are more than 145 million people are registered as users of Twitter.

Twitter users from the phone, also recorded an increase of 16 percent. In addition 46 percent of active users, is now also regularly use mobile devices.

According to Williams, the mobile application to prove that the strategy to provide mobile Twitter application on several major platforms, is quite successful. Twitter for iPhone and Twitter for BlackBerry proved to be the fourth and fifth most popular applications that are accessed by the user.

However, Twitter application for Android was not very popular. It is not even included in the list of the Top 10 applications used by Twitter users.

The majority of users still using Twitter from their desktops (78 percent), while accessed through mobile sites are in second place (14 percent) and accessed Twitter via SMS in the third position (8 percent).

The application of the photo to Twitter, TwitPic, ranked six (4 percent) and TweetDeck is ranked number seven (3 percent)