Twitter is the UK’s fastest growing website, breaking into the top 40 most visited sites in Britain for the first time.The micro-blogging site has seen a huge rise in popularity in recent months, experiencing a 22-fold increase in traffic in the past year, according to Hitwise, the internet analysts. Twitter is now the 38th most visited site in the UK. At the same time last year it was 969th.
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