As Twitter grows, with an estimated 50 million+ live accounts, it is increasingly becoming an important source of traffic for many Websites.

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The day before they slipped out of Washington for the August recess, Reps. Edward Markey (D-MA) and Anna Eshoo (D-CA) introduced the Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2009, which would give the deceptively benign ideal of "net neutrality" the force of law.

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MySpace may not be the hottest thing in social networking any longer, with visitor numbers and page views decreasing at an alarming rate, but apparently its free music streaming service MySpace Music is still something of a hit.

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Pretty sure my site gets no traffic, so I'm gonna go with "No." But the rest of you might enjoy the Danny Sullivan's look at how Web analytics work with regard to Twitter's various parasitic URL-shortening services.

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Some people use Twitter to organize street protests in Tehran. Some people use it to share their daily thoughts and observation. But it is increasingly becoming clear that one of the most common ways people use Twitter is as a social information filter and link distributor.

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Web analytics firm Compete has released its data for the month of May, and as Justin Smith over at InsideFacebook has already pointed out, US traffic to Facebook.com has increased by nearly 8% to 82.9 million unique visitors last month, with Facebook Connect sites generating an a …

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Google finally has an explanation for its giant fail whale earlier today. It was Asia's fault. For some reason, Google re-routed some of its traffic to Asia and that caused a massive traffic jam.

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The freedom represented by the Internet does not extend to all countries, says a new Reporters Without Borders report that faults a dozen nations for engaging in an "almost systematic repression of Internet users."

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Scheme for rural broadband

Digital divide. Croatia and broadband policy. Urban vs. rural.Talented off.The forces of globalisation and progress have come to my little village in the croatian countryside years ago.

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Can you name Google's top ten products? If you look at how Quantcast ranks Google's subdomains, you can get a sense of which Google products are the most popular, since they each have their own subdomain.

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Remember the ill-fated Google-killer Cuil? Named 'Cuill' and very much in stealth mode for the first part of the year, they finally emerged end of July 2008 with a 'massive' search engine that would rival the most popular search engines of our time with an enormous index, …

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So, how do you generate large and reliable search engine traffic? There are a number of on-page (within your site) tweaks that you can apply to make your site more attractive to the search engines.

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Digg has become synonymous with "social news", but there are a number of other sites with similar concepts out there, many of them with their sights set on trying to remove Digg from the throne.

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Barack Obama has surged to the lead among presidential candidates in the war of the Web — his campaign site on the Internet attracted more visitors in November than any of his Democratic or Republican rivals.

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Today the CEO of Web Traffic Portals, Tom Rozof, confirmed his company's new strategic partnership with Mass Traffic Network, a decision designed to bring two of the largest traffic generation strategies together under one roof.

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The best antidote is to avoid mistakes, as much as possible. Also, be certain that what you do really works. Here are 10 ways to help you on your online endeavor.

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Recently, a page on one of my websites was bookmarked or listed on Digg, a popular social bookmark site. It gave me the perfect opportunity to study and analyze the traffic coming from these social media sites.

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As part of growth work for my blog clients, I submit their writing, almost daily, to various news services. In an effort to measure which brings the greatest amount of traffic in, I'm conducting an experiment over the next 7 days. This post introduces it to my readership.

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Those on Republican Rudy Giuliani's campaign site appeared to have significant concerns about asthma; they were 169 times more likely to view asthma-related content than other Internet users.

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Web site owners and web marketers spend lots of time trying to get great rankings in web traffic sites such as Alexa, Compete, and QuantCast. This story shows you why you shouldn't bother.

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Heather Hopkins writing on her Hitwise blog said that the number two source of traffic to the popular UK online fashion store TopShop.co.uk was their MySpace profile on the social networking site. That was five times as much as they had a year ago.

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KeyWord Secrets: Hidden Secrets of KeyWords, AdSense, Adwords, SEO, PPC Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

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The debate over which site had the most November page views reflects the difficulty of tallying Web traffic, and billions of ad dollars are at stake.

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Is the Page View a fading metric in evaluating the worth of web properties? Steve Rubel says yes, and he gives it until 2010. The widgetization of the web, he says, will gradually render the page view metric obsolete.

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