At current growth rates everyone in the US will have a Twitter account by August 22 2009!

Ross Dawson, April 15, 2009 5:09 PM US PT

ComScore has just announced that the number of Twitter users in the US went up by 131% in March.

At this rate, everyone in the US will have a Twitter account by August 22 of this year.

In other news, CNN (which just acquired CNNbrk) and Ashton Kutcher are battling it out to be the first to reach one million followers.

With many million of synapses now firing frantically, the global brain is finally awakening…

1 Comments

Nora A Burns said:

Wonder how many are 2nd, 3rd, 4th and/or Bot accounts

Ross Dawson is globally recognized as a leading futurist, entrepreneur, keynote speaker, strategy advisor, and bestselling author. He is Founding Chairman of four companies: professional services and venture firm Advanced Human Technologies, future and strategy consulting group Future Exploration Network, leading events firm The Insight Exchange, and influence ratings start-up Repyoot.

Ross is author most recently of Implementing Enterprise 2.0, the prescient Living Networks, which anticipated the social network revolution, and the Amazon.com bestseller Developing Knowledge-Based Client Relationships (click on the links for free chapter downloads). He is based in Sydney and San Francisco with his wife jewellery designer Victoria Buckley and two beautiful young daughters.