Is Twine The Next Squidoo or Hubpages?
TechCrunch 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 ar