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The Facts: Since the beginning of the year, 72.5% of Twitter users have signed up for the service. This includes 22.7% of total users in March and 19.7% in April.

So what accounted for the tremendous growth in March and April? In March, Twitter started to attract significant media attention after Compete.com reported that the number of Twitter users had skyrocketed in February.

In April, Twitter’s profile was enhanced when Ashton Krutcher (aka @aplusk) waged a public race against CNN to be the first to have one million followers. Then, on April 17, talk show celebrity Oprah Winfrey (aka @oprah) started using Twitter, making her first Tweet on her show with help from Twitter co-founder Ev Williams.

Although April did show impressive growth, it was also the first time in nine months that Twitter had a decline in month-over-month growth.

I honestly believe that twitter will be the #3 search engine in 2 years. Call me crazy, but Twitter is a data company. The company will truly catapult the search portion once engineers figure out how to truly mine the tweets, and eliminate the noise (duplicates).