Is Twitter running out of gas? The company, which just today acknowledged that is completed a new round of financing which reportedly consists of $100 million raised at a $1 billion valuation, appears to be seeing a significant deceleration in traffic, according to market research firm Hitwise. In a blog post, Hitwise general manager for global research Bill Tancer shows that traffic to Twitter.com as a percentage of overall U.S. Web visits apparently peaked in April.
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