Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Evan Williams said that Twitter now has 145 million users.
The Twitter CEO said in a blog post that the Twitter users’ growth, from 105.8 million on April to 145 million users this month, is due to the company’s efforts to make Twitter accessible on mobile devices.
Twitter achieved the 27 percent increase of users with the help of a third-party application. The application called Tweetie, a now very popular iPhone application, allows the users to use Twitter on their mobile devices.
Williams stated that the company’s strategy was successful. He also said that because of that strategy, mobile users using Twitter climbed to 62 percent, and new users registering rose from 5 percent to 16 percent.
Twitter also unveiled a new application for Android, and said that it teamed-up with Research In motion to create a new application for BlackBerry. Twitter released its application for iPad on Wednesday and quickly gained favorable views.
“As we had hoped in April, these clients are bringing more people into Twitter, and, even better, they are attracting and retaining active users. Indeed, 46 percent of active users make mobile a regular part of their Twitter experience,” Williams wrote.
Twitter said that Seventy-eight percent of the users used the official Twitter.com website, 14 percent favored Twitter’s mobile website m.twitter.com, eight percent used SMS, another eight percent used Twitter for iPhone and seven percent used Twitter for Blackberry.
Numbers add up to more than 100 percent because many users more often use more than one application to access Twitter.
Twitter said the numbers add up to more than 100 percent because people often use more than one application to access the service.
Williams also published on the blog post discussing about how it users are shifting to Twitter, the top 10 applications that people used to access the micro blogging site for the past 30 days.
Some of the applications included in the top 10 are TwitPic, a program that users use to upload their photos, TweetDeck, Google Friend Connect and UberTwitter.
