Chk out these INTERESTING stats: 1. 21% (One Fifth) of Twitter accounts are empty placeholders. These are the percentage of Twitter accounts that have never posted a single tweet. They may either be registered simply to hold a username for later use, or be experimental accounts started up but never used. 2. Nearly 94% of all Twitter accounts have less than 100 followers. In a finding perhaps consistent with the newness of the tool as well as the fact that many people may currently have an account simply to start experimenting with the tool, Sysomos found the vast majority of Twitter users have an extremely low followership. 3. March and April of 2009 were the tipping point for Twitter. During these months, Ashton Kutcher launched his quest to get to 1 million followers faster than CNN, Oprah started using Twitter, and the steady flow of new users to the site continued. For many, it offered a safer and easier way to get their feet wet with social media, 140 characters at a time. 4. 150 followers is the magic number. In a particularly interesting data point from the survey, Sysomos found that Twitter users tended to "follow back" all their followers up until about 150 connections. Then the reciprocation rate fell off dramatically, which seems to indicate that this number may be the crossover point where people shift from using Twitter for more personal use to using it more for "lifecasting" their thoughts and actions to a community of people who they feel varying levels of connection to. 5. A small minority creates most of the activity. A steep curve of a small minority of actively engaged content creators generating most of the activity on a site is common among social networks, but it is steeper and more pronounced on Twitter. 5% of users account for 75% of all activity, and 10% of users account for 86%. This seems to suggest that the site has managed to engage a mass audience beyond those who typically engage with social media. 6. Half of all Twitter users are not "active." If you take a general description of being "active" on Twitter to mean that you have posted a tweet at some point in the last 7 days (1 week), then the survey learned that 50.4% of all Twitter users fit this category. If you remove the 21% from point #1, this leaves about 30% of users who have an account and have tweeted before, but happen to be inactive now. 7. Tuesday is the most active Twitter day. One of the most useful data points from the report is that it clears up the common question of which day of the week is the best day to tweet something. Sysomos found that Tuesday stood out as the most popular day for tweets and retweets, followed by Wednesday and then Friday. 8. APIs have been the key to Twitter's growth & utility. In terms of tools that people are using for Twitter, Sysomos found that more than half (55%) of all Twitter users use something other than Twitter.com to tweet, search and connect with others. This may, in part, be due to Twitter's notorious reputation of failing/crashing, but also is a credit to all the third party applications that have been built on top of Twitter and do their fair share to bring new users to the service. 9. English still dominates Twitter. When exploring Russia as part of a class that I am teaching this summer at Georgetown, one of the barriers we learned about was the difficulty of fitting some Russian language words into just 140 characters. Twitter is, however, extremely English-friendly. As the Sysomos report found, the top four countries on Twitter are all English speaking (US, UK, Canada, Australia). Of these, US makes up 62% of all Twitter users, followed by UK with nearly 8% and Canada and Australia with 5.7% and 2.8% respectively. The largest non-English speaking country on Twitter? Brazil with 2%.IMB_TwitterSysomos2 10. Twitter is being led by the social media geeks. This particular finding should likely come as no surprise, but 15% of Twitter users who follow more than 2000 people identify themselves as social media marketers. These individuals are more likely to post updates every day (sometimes more than once per day) and also use Twitter more actively for direct communication.
let's say i buy crazydeals.com , i register twiiter.com/crazydeals so that i can use that when i have some plans for twittering my deals. just to be safe than sorry. hope you get me.
i love twitter. It makes me money. I feel so proud of my 30k followers and growing. Unfortunately they forgot to mention that 90% of the tweets are spam
Lots of celebrities are having pretty good followers but they are following very less and if we check the followers list we can see lots of them are following just 1 or 2. It is just to show that the celebrity is pretty popular on twitter. I don't think twitter will be able to carry on with the same traffic rate in future because lots of the users are using autofollow and autotwitting application to show their visibility. It absolutely sounds unnatural.
Very very true. What percentage are spammers/marketers that don't benefit you? I've been wondering that.. I use twitter to get consistent traffic to my site but, I interact with all of the followers that actually talk back and aren't some automated marketing/spamming bullshit.
Wow! that's REALLY impressive MrCatana...can I ask: 1) how long it took, for you to reach the 30k followers mark? 2) how much time you spend per day or per week on Twitter, tweeting? 3) do you use automation software, when it comes to tweeting, following, unfollowing etc? and would you like to recommend those software? 4) to earn $100/day, do you promote your own products or affiliate products or both? 5) lastly, do you ONLY use Twitter for traffic generation to make $100/day? Thanks in advance!
Yes! 90% of them are spam, I never read the tweets on my home page - just using search box to find useful info.
There is an easy way to get rid of Twitter spam I've been very happy with twitter, it's been a great tool that's allowed me to networking with those in my area and those that are interested in my niche. It is what you make it, if you just go at it blindly, you'll most like be disappointed
Hi , Great post. Lot of interesting information there. But can you tell me where or how you came about this information? Thanks
I do read the tweets on my home page- to learn from other marketers. Paying close attention to how a tweet affects my initial response to seeing it. I'll reissue those that catch my eye, edited based on my own needs.
Sorry, I forgot to mention the source...it was posted on the popular blogger Rohit Bhargava's blog who compiled the info from this PDF report by Sysomos...here's the link if you're interested to download the full report: http://www.sysomos.com/insidetwitter/ Trust that helps!
Some of the points are really great.. Its upto you how do we want to use twitter. I use it to get a whats latest on my field it helps a lot. There are ways to stop spams.. I agree twitter has to be more careful in how to stop spam...
Any luck with this MrCatana?...I would be really interested to know about this!...would appreciate if you could share it with us....Thanks!