Is Twine The Next Squidoo or Hubpages?
By Anna Johnson on May 26th, 2009TechCrunch reports that social bookmarking site, Twine, has in just a few months eclipsed Friendfeed in terms of monthly visitors. Twine is also catching up on Squidoo and Hubpages with which it also shares strong similarities.
Hubpages and Squidoo are still miles ahead (see chart and key metrics below), but looking at Twine’s growth rate according to Compete, you can see that Twine is rapidly catching up.
Based on Compete data, Hubpages got 4.4 million unique visitors in April, grew 1.26 percent month-on-month and grew 139.20 percent year-on-year. Squidoo got 3.9 million visitors, declined by a rather significant 20.64 percent month-on-month and was up by 33.21 percent year-on-year. Twine, meanwhile, reached 2.2 million uniques, grew 67.95 month-on-month and a massive 3,084.88 percent year-on-year.
Compete defines Twine as a social networking website. That’s because, as with Friendfeed, you can connect with others with similar interests using Twine.
However, rather than be centered around a person (i.e. you), Twine enables you to create interest pages to which you and others can add items such as links, articles, videos, and so on. In that way, Twine is more like Squidoo, which allows you to create your own webpages, or Hubpages, which allows you to create hubs.
On top of that, Twine organizes all the items you’ve added to your interest page using semantic and tagging technologies, as well as social input from the community, that results in authoritative pages.
Here’s where to find out more about this social bookmarking / networking / hosting site: Twine.com
Source: Erick Schonfeld, “Twine Is Taking Off, Now Bigger Than FriendFeed,” May 22, 2009
September 20th, 2009 at 10:53 am
Thanks for the article, I was really searching for the next Squidoo! It seems the tighter req’s for publishing on Squidoo are hurting them a bit, as your stats suggest. I think also, people are constantly hunting for the “newest” craze, nothing is static here on the net!
Doug