techcrunch - twitter Reaches 17 million visitors in April based on Comscore Data

Twitter Reaches 17 million page views based on Comscore Data on techcrunch which is a significant increase in domestic traffic from March which clocked in at 9 million views.

Average time on the site is roughly 8 minutes which is significantly lower than other social networking sites like Facebook. Retention rates are two times lower than where Facebook and Myspace were when they were starting out according to Nielsen per below.

What other features are in store for Twitter?

SA Insider: 100 Things More Popular Than Twitter

"Take a look:
MySpace
Facebook
Bebo
Orkut
HotOrNot.com
Pizza
Yahoo Mail
Google Mail
Comcast
Hotmail
Verizon Internet
Road Runner
America Online subscriptions
Dogs
Cats
Pet birds
AOL Instant Messenger
ICQ
MSN Messenger
Readers Digest
Better Homes & Garden
AARP the Magazine
Nintendo Wii
PS3
Nintendo GameCube
Apple iPod
Nintendo Game Boy
Sega Game Gear
Tamagotchi
Furby
Titanic
The Dark Knight
Batman Begins
Batman & Robin
Catwoman
The Cheetah Girls 2
CSI
Project Runway
American Idol
Two and a Half Men
America's Got Talent
Barack Obama
John McCain
Bobby Jindal
Ross Perot
The Beatles
Nirvana
New Kids On The Block
Backstreet Boys
nSync
98 Degrees
Christianity
Islam
Mormonism
Judaism
Scientology
Blogger
WordPress
TypePad
Hampsterdance.com
Online newspapers
MSNBC Digital Network
CNN Digital Network
Yahoo! News
AOL News
NYTimes.com
Tribune Newspapers
Fox News Digital Network
Google News
Gannett Newspapers and Newspaper Division
CBS News Digital Network
ABCNEWS Digital Network
washingtonpost.com
USATODAY.com
BBC.com
McClatchy Newspaper Network
WorldNow
Boston.com
Advance Internet
Hearst Newspapers Digital
N.Y. Daily News Online Edition
MediaNews Group Newspapers
TheHuffingtonPost.com
Topix
Digg
Thriller, Michael Jackson
Born in the USA, Bruce Springsteen
Bat out of Hell, Meatloaf
Breathless, Kenny G
Please Hammer Don't Hurt'em, MC Hammer
Times Square
Faneuil Hall Marketplace, Boston
Niagara Falls
Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee
Universal Studios Orlando
Coca-Cola
Pepsi
Mountain Dew
Fanta
Diet Dr. Pepper

A few things less popular than Twitter:
Microsoft Zune
Pet rocks
Jim Cramer
George Bush
PC Guy

Exclusive: Facebook's new face

"Facebook may turn out to be a lot more important than any of us thought. It has just launched a major change in its strategy that will transform its role in the Internet ecosystem and could create a raft of new opportunities for companies of all sizes.

No longer will Facebook consider itself merely another social network. Instead it is becoming a technology platform on which anyone can build applications for social computing. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg invited me to spend time with executives of Facebook and partner companies in advance of the announcement. (Here's an extensive feature I wrote for Fortune Magazine based on this exclusive access, Facebook Wants to Hook Up the World.)"