NEW/DIGITAL STORIES

Sun website traffic slips by 14%

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/oct/15/sun-website-traffic

- Suffered first fall in web traffic 

- saw average visitors drop by 14% 

- The figure has dropped to 1.1 million people

- Likely to be because of football transfer window has closed

- Companies who suffered even more are the Daily Star and The Metro.

- The Daily Stars average daily visitors dropped by 35% and The Metros daily visitors dropped by 33.9%.

- However other companies such as theGuardian have increased by 11.28%, also the Independent increased daily traffic by 10.32%

I think that was results was expected as there are many football fans that go on to news websites to see news about transfers. I also feel that The Sun is based on entertainment and not things such as politics which means that when something big happens in the entertainment world there will be a more daily visitors attracted for the website.

Twitter slashes global workforce as it struggles for growth

- Twitter is cutting 336 jobs which is 8% of its work force

- The job losses will be mainly in the area product and engineering functions

- Twitter is struggling to grow its 300 million users

- Twitter is still less popular than Facebook and Instagram

- Facebook has 1.4 billion users in which Twitter cannot compete

I am shocked that Twitter is struggling to grow as as the number of twitter users are on the increase. Also I think that the rise of Instagram has slowed the process down for Twitter to grow as a business.One more thing I would like to add is that Mark Zucherberg has thought about how to sop Twitter from growing as he bought Instagram which is on a rapid increase