Twitter twitter everywhere (with help from Stephen Fry)
Take a look at this breakdown of also visited sites: twitter-also-visited Other than Stephen Fry, it looks like the other \\"truth\\" that is often said about.
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Having stated in the previous post that Twitter was growing, I thought I’d take a peek at what Google Trends thinks. It is interesting viewing.
Yes Twitter is steadily growing:

So it is obvious that Twitter is being looked at. It is also very obvious that one man is helping to push this growth in the UK: Stephen Fry (@stephenfry). Take a look at this breakdown of also visited sites:

Other than Stephen Fry, it looks like the other “truth” that is often said about Twitter is still holding at present: it is inhabited by marketing and media types. Both NMA and Brand Republic are major marketing websites in the UK.
In the past few weeks though, with no data to show this yet, I am seeing more of the non-marketing/media types talk about Twitter especially given the exposure in places like The Jonathan Ross show on BBC1 (thanks to @wossy talking Twitter with Stephen Fry on his comeback show); the BBC news website (again thanks to Stephen Fry); in the Independent (yes: Stephen Fry again); The Guardian (Yes you guessed it Stephen Fry) and finally on Radio 1 where Scott Mills has been “promoting” it - apparently though, he doesn’t get it.
Get it or not it is definitely placing it in front of a mainstream audience.
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About Riaz
I've spent over 25 years founding and scaling B2B companies - as COO, CEO, CMO and CTO, often across the same company's lifecycle. An engineering degree from UCL and an MBA from Bayes means I understand both the technology and how a business actually runs around it.
I co-founded Digital Oxygen, which was acquired by Silverpop and later by IBM. I scaled Profusion from 15 people to 100. I founded and led Radiate B2B for nine years, building the first MCP-based AI connector for LinkedIn Advertising, before closing it in 2026 rather than rebuild around a declining display-advertising market.
Today I run Connected Paths, an AI implementation consultancy, and work directly with a small number of B2B founders and CEOs through advisory, fractional COO/CMO work, mentoring and speaking. I've mentored 50+ founders through Techstars, UCL and Bayes, and chaired the Cass Entrepreneurs Network for its 3,000 alumni and investors.
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