After a relatively slow month of May, Twitter resumed its torrid growth in June, according to TechCrunch, citing comScore data.
Twitter attracted 20.1 million unique U.S. visitors last month, a 14 percent lift from May. Page views were up as well, increasing 21 percent to 628 million. However, Twitter traffic is still notoriously difficult to gauge, because as many as half of its users access the service through third-party applications, according to TechCrunch.
In May, Twitter's traffic had slowed to a crawl, increasing only 1.5 percent from April. While there's no direct proof, Twitter's bump in traffic was likely aided by being at the forefront of several national new stories during the month.
Midway through June, the U.S. State Department requested Twitter postpone planned downtime because Iranian nationals were using the service to coordinate protests. At the end of the month, Twitter was famously unable to handle the surge in traffic that resulted from pop star Michael Jackson's death.
