• TechCrunch, Tuesday, April 21, 2009 12 PM

Last week was "massive" for Twitter, according to TechCrunch. The Kutcher/CNN race to a million on top of Oprah showcasing the service on Friday, likely was the biggest week ever for the service.

The week before the Kutcher/CNN race, Kutcher's Twitter page got about 176,000 page views, according to Compete. Last week, his page views rose to an incredible 3.2 million. In the same time span, CNNbrk (the account racing Kutcher) went from 61,000 page views to over 900,000. And Oprah, the latecomer, went from 5,000 page views (before she ran the account), to over 980,000 -- which is perhaps even more incredible considering she made her debut on Friday of last week.

Overall, Twitter.com traffic went from 367 million to over 420 million for the week in terms of page views. Meanwhile, unique views went from just over 8 million, to over 10 million. The page views on Twitter's signup page alone went up by over a million for the week. These celebrities are having an amazing effect on Twitter's growth.

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