Twitter seems to miss no opportunity to keep itself in news. Well, it is possible that the current may be declared as Twitter year and you will soon find lessons regarding using Twitter effectively for business purposes in your text book quite soon. They are really doing things in a celebrity way.

Engadget former editor in chief Ryan Block’s tweets, which appeared on the site last night, reveal some facts about the Oprah Effect on the site, as he tried to find it out how many people signed Twitter after featuring of the service in her Friday show. According to Ryan they were around 1.2m.

So, is it true that nearly 1.2m people signed up for the site because of Oprah? It’s not impossible, but it’s somewhat tricky to track down this data. When it was asked from Block about the method he utilized to find it out, he told that he looked at user ID on the account of the site on Friday against those on Sunday afternoon.

Well, many seem to grouse against the used pattern, and it’s, indeed, somewhat tricky with the number of Twitter users IDs that can’t help a lot to reveal how many users have been using the site ,as the site has stopped incrementing the number in a sequence after March 2007. And that’s why mere number of IDs can be sufficient to find about the number of users on the site.

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