I was just spending some time this morning looking at all the sites that are now talking about my Twitter Toolbar, and was getting pretty excited about its gain in popularity.
When I first introduced the toolbar it averaged about 35 downloads a day from my site alone. Now it’s averaging close to 100 downloads a day, and I expect by next week it will be a lot bigger than that. Downloads are occurring all over the place now.
Mozilla has a statistics page for us developers so we can see how the downloads are going. On their site there has only been about 1,000 downloads in total, but another figure is quickly going up, daily users. The daily users figure is going up screaming fast.
Here is how fast the toolbar popularity is growing (based on Mozilla’s stats). For every 100 people that use the toolbar this week, 24 more will use it next week. 24 doesn’t sound like a lot, but this week over 400 people use it daily. That means next week around 500 people will be using it daily. Another way to see it is by looking what the number will be like just a month and a half from now. I’m forecasting over 2,000 people will be using it daily by the end of August. My forecast is based on a very steady trend line based on 18 weeks of data.
Two Big Add-ons Planned
So the two big add-ons planned are search, and sidebar. You can expect the search function to appear on the next updated, and the sidebar action to occur soon after. I have had several requests to have the toolbar just make use of the sidebar instead of an entire web page. Sounds like a good idea to me!
