Has Twitter driven Gmail to the #10 spot in Web visitors?

I’m pretty sure it’s because so many early adopters are on Twitter and early adopters tend to use Gmail. And I don’t know about you but I’ve been getting 20-30 new Twitter followers a day. Each time I get a new follower, I get an email. Of course half of those are spam, real estate investors, or online work from home, almost spam.

Anyone who seems half way legit I follow back. Unfortunately half of the people I follow back send me an auto DM. This results in another email. This of course doesn’t count the 10 or so DM’s I get each day (more email) or the hourly Tweetlater or Twimailer reports I get. Oh yeah and I manage 2 separate Twitter accounts.

Adding it all up I get about 100 email a day from Twitter or related services. Thankfully I use Gmail filters extensibly and all of those either skip my inbox altogether or go to a special label I have set up to act on later.

But if a decent number of Twitter’s 6 Million users also use Gmail and are experiencing similar email usage growth then I hypothesis that Twitter is responsible for Gmail’s rise in visitors.

That’s my story and I’m sticking to it

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