tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30026617412824663222024-03-18T14:00:41.958+01:00Twitter FactsFacts and opinions on Twitter and the TwitosphereBruno Peetershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16135336038823520839noreply@blogger.comBlogger113125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002661741282466322.post-80045727927068551752009-07-09T00:45:00.001+02:002009-07-09T00:48:40.989+02:00TweespeedThe success of Twitter has inspired a lot of developers to create their own Twitter mashup. <a href="http://www.tweespeed.com/" target="_blank">TweeSpeed</a> is an example of this phenomenon. TweeSpeed is a web service that calculates the number of Twitter messages, also called tweets, sent in the last minute. TweeSpeed is based on the public timeline, it grabs information for the 5 last minutes and calculate an average speed for one minute. The actual number of Twitter messages is higher, Twitter messages from private accounts do not show up in the public timeline.<br /><br />TweeSpeed offers three views of the number of Twitter messages per unit of time. There is the gauge at the front page. There is also a view of the <a href="http://www.tweespeed.com/speeds.jsp?period=minute&duration=1440" target="_blank">speed by minute for the last day</a>. And finally there is a view of the <a href="http://www.tweespeed.com/speeds.jsp?period=hour&duration=168" target="_blank">speed by hour for the last week</a>.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRQ9g3gFsM9g1C3ob7y3VRvwaCvM1ULrjhnCP5vcJpTDgnZyMeLEmK5vCZpgWL-aAJV8fRcJN_0lfn26bAyFmeay0uqIn-9Clg-CkwCgXOQ_V3fbjtXQ4mwwb8Cwzs_pXIvoV6OpnCtKM/s1600-h/tf-tweespeed1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 259px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRQ9g3gFsM9g1C3ob7y3VRvwaCvM1ULrjhnCP5vcJpTDgnZyMeLEmK5vCZpgWL-aAJV8fRcJN_0lfn26bAyFmeay0uqIn-9Clg-CkwCgXOQ_V3fbjtXQ4mwwb8Cwzs_pXIvoV6OpnCtKM/s400/tf-tweespeed1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356224310067041682" /></a><br />The events around the death of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jackson" target="_blank">Michael Jackson</a> had a strong impact on Twitter, as already reported by the traditional media such, e.g. <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/06/26/michael.jackson.internet/index.html" target="_blank">CNN</a>.<br /><br />Looking at the graphs made available by <a href="http://www.tweespeed.com/" target="_blank">TweeSpeed</a>, I discovered that it was possible to show more history that just the last day or the last week. The graph below starts at June 13, 2009. The rumors and the formal announcement of the death of Michael Jackson caused a sharp increase in the number of Twitter messages on June 25, 2009. The next peak was on June 29, 2009 - when all kind of rumors concerning the cause of death and the funeral arrangements were spreading around. The funeral and memorial service on July 7, 2009 triggered the third peak.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl2NxrF8hp3GsRE41Fdh_nNle9PMNKxcMMiI0mEh6BfLliBTnPUYXZfPSBZwxbYE67z3yQlYDpr6ASehvN2ET3T5Dc-iFuIYoTyXwFFVEq_10jXEyHqkj_qHLOKh5rm_ZCLOZSgQEfBGg/s1600-h/tf-tweespeed2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 376px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl2NxrF8hp3GsRE41Fdh_nNle9PMNKxcMMiI0mEh6BfLliBTnPUYXZfPSBZwxbYE67z3yQlYDpr6ASehvN2ET3T5Dc-iFuIYoTyXwFFVEq_10jXEyHqkj_qHLOKh5rm_ZCLOZSgQEfBGg/s400/tf-tweespeed2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356224300553170210" /></a><br /><br />The graph shows also a cyclical trend. The volume of Twitter messages in the past four weeks is significantly lower on Saturdays and Sundays. The peaks occur typically around 20:00 UTC (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time" target="_blank">Coordinated Universal Time</a>), which is around 16:00 US Eastern time and also 13:00 US Pacific Time. The volumes of Twitter messages are at their lowest level between 11:00 and 12:00 UTC, which is around 7:00 and 8:00 US Eastern time and also 4:00 and 5:00 US Pacific Time, when the majority of the population in the United States is probably still sleeping. It looks like Twitter users from the United States are still dominating Twitter usage. Coincidentally, the volumes of Twitter message are at their highest levels during the working hours. Does this mean that Twitter users (especially in the United States) are still allowed to Twitter during working hours ?Bruno Peetershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16135336038823520839noreply@blogger.com36tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002661741282466322.post-9110934176016636022009-05-08T00:32:00.001+02:002009-05-08T00:35:08.985+02:00Twitter SearchThere are announcements that Twitter will add new functionalities to <a href="http://search.twitter.com/" target=_blank>Twitter Search</a> (<a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10235360-2.html" target=_blank>Cnet</a>). Links will be crawled (which is currently not the case) and a reputation ranking system will be worked out. This is of course good news.<br /><br />But some of the current limitations of Twitter Search are not discussed. The Twitter Search API currently returns up to <a href="http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-Search-API-Method%3A-search?SearchFor=1500&sp=1" target=_blank>1500 search results</a>. Older tweets cannot be found thru the API. <a href="http://mashable.com/2009/04/27/swine-flu-twitter/" target=_blank>According to Mashable</a> there were over 10000 tweets per hour related to swine flue. Even if there are less than 1500 matching tweets for a search query, tweets older than a couple of months will not be found. Tweets from several months apparantly disappear in a black hole for Twitter Search.<br /><br />Another issue to be tackled with a reputation ranking system is that it has to take into account that there are many (sub) communities on the Twitter platform. They are all linked together thru Twitter users who are within multiple communities. Twitter users in a country can be considered as an example of such a community, as shown in the various previous posts on this blog where the twitospheres in particular countries were analyzed. But there are also communities by topics of interest.<br /><br />Reputation is important within a context. A user from France will probable use French for his tweets within the French Twitter community, whereas a German Twitter user will use German. How will a global reputation tackle these contexts ? How will a reputation ranking system detect the language used in tweets ? Someone can be very influential in a specialized community, but on a global level never appear in a top 1000.<br /><br />Reputation is a property linked to a person, where a person can have a Twitter account, a Facebook page, a Linkedin profile, one or more blogs. But he can also be present in the traditional world, he can be invited as speaker on major conferences, he is perhaps author of groundbreaking books, ... A reputation ranking system within Twitter will only catch a part of someone's "global" reputation.<br /><br />Nevertheless I am looking forward to the new functionalities that Twitter will be releasing in their <a href="http://search.twitter.com/" target=_blank>Twitter Search</a> product, hopefully soon.Bruno Peetershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16135336038823520839noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002661741282466322.post-5388249130408502122009-05-03T14:37:00.007+02:002009-05-03T15:10:04.427+02:00Poken on TwitterA <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poken" target=_blank>poken</a> is a small physical device capable of exchanging online social networking data with other poken devices. A poken has a USB connector, so you can plug the device into your computer to connect your device to the Poken web database. On the Poken website you can decide which social networking profiles you want to share with your Poken friends. This social network profile can be your Twitter account. If two poken devices are held close to each other, they will exchange contact data of the owners.<br /><br />Pokens are produced by a <a href="http://doyoupoken.com/" target=_blank>Swiss company</a>. The inventors of this device saw it as a digital alternative of exchanging business cards. Pokens were launched in the last trimester of 2008. They became pretty soon a <a href="http://streamlinedmind.com/2008/12/03/poken-the-future-of-social-networking/" target=_blank>hype in the Netherlands</a>. Only in March 2009 this device got attention on the <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/15/poken-tiny-rfid-thingies-that-share-all-your-personal-data-with-others/" target=_blank>TechCrunch blog</a>. Pokens were also presented at the SXSW conference, where they became <a href="http://blog.doyoupoken.com/2009/03/18/poken-is-the-talk-of-south-by-southwest-conference/" target=_blank>talk of the conference</a> - as Twitter was during the 2007 edition of SXSW.<br /><br />I have been tracking the buzz on Twitter regarding pokens for a while now. You can find below some graphs showing insight on how the poken hype evolved over the past months. This analysis was performed on data obtained thru <a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=poken" target=_blank>Twitter Search</a>. Only Twitter messages from public Twitter users were available for analysis. Since September 2008 I discovered over 31,000 Twitter messages from 7641 different Twitter users. <br /><br />The first graph shows the number of Twitter messages per day related to poken.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkuS-Lz2fGSJmfFjPPlFdgVUkJudc9bcpeB32o2sWYHOUahQMGul-i-RgHMs4GO2u51C6slhr2NzVg29sa1-B0xG1IUQp7_jc0Nxwuz85xektlDoe2QSy3uk9f3xy6i40qojMbrANZpAQ/s1600-h/tf-poken-tweets1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 220px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkuS-Lz2fGSJmfFjPPlFdgVUkJudc9bcpeB32o2sWYHOUahQMGul-i-RgHMs4GO2u51C6slhr2NzVg29sa1-B0xG1IUQp7_jc0Nxwuz85xektlDoe2QSy3uk9f3xy6i40qojMbrANZpAQ/s400/tf-poken-tweets1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331576396264186706" /></a><br />You can compare this graph with the result of <a href="http://www.google.com/trends?q=poken&ctab=0&geo=all&date=ytd&sort=0" target=_blank>Google Trends for Poken</a> - showing the usage of the term in searches. Another reference chart is the <a href="http://blogpulse.com/search?query=poken" target=_blank>number of blogposts found by Blogpulse</a> refering to Poken.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4TksNPCWYfmz3VYrMUiwS3voW5W0EbRHQTWDOMQTdwUo-N8GMspFprBfVbuOJtcZBoRpUH2l7uK40GJ-RJgD00sJNhg4WBBQhK9UnsztSxJDWBQd_kCD8vyFwQ7NVBCfNjlbjCxU6N_U/s1600-h/tf-poken-googletrends1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 221px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4TksNPCWYfmz3VYrMUiwS3voW5W0EbRHQTWDOMQTdwUo-N8GMspFprBfVbuOJtcZBoRpUH2l7uK40GJ-RJgD00sJNhg4WBBQhK9UnsztSxJDWBQd_kCD8vyFwQ7NVBCfNjlbjCxU6N_U/s400/tf-poken-googletrends1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331576398174126274" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0ohnaL0Dnx0Aic2TJMN9WybsBW9xr2nmbRlRl_btpIjhDqGYnoZJkpQxbR7DCFzjwOeIYCODgf33kbu-G2k8kuu6Ej8qAQeonlVYYt2HvtitPUE0F9tworbIGAGsKC9J9HZS6Nipv4Tk/s1600-h/tf-poken-blogpulse.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 249px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0ohnaL0Dnx0Aic2TJMN9WybsBW9xr2nmbRlRl_btpIjhDqGYnoZJkpQxbR7DCFzjwOeIYCODgf33kbu-G2k8kuu6Ej8qAQeonlVYYt2HvtitPUE0F9tworbIGAGsKC9J9HZS6Nipv4Tk/s400/tf-poken-blogpulse.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331576399238371410" /></a><br />The hype on Twitter started before the hype on blogs (shown on the Blogpulse chart) and the hype in search trends (Google Trends).<br /><br />Another interesting graph is the cumulative number of Twitter users who posted at least one Twitter message related to poken. This graph shows that the number of users is still increasing. <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNSOyA5WfkOf35qFfbS9R2iWI4bwDwY-yEykWn9UGR0BUbchL8YK9n0RYr2Ptjh24osa671uE5_x9snKquHfHlAM1QJnez-I-YzOdArLl4stegJU2XXzZtlsw_O2VTRrwo7TFuad0CXhI/s1600-h/tf-poken-users1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 221px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNSOyA5WfkOf35qFfbS9R2iWI4bwDwY-yEykWn9UGR0BUbchL8YK9n0RYr2Ptjh24osa671uE5_x9snKquHfHlAM1QJnez-I-YzOdArLl4stegJU2XXzZtlsw_O2VTRrwo7TFuad0CXhI/s400/tf-poken-users1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331578176679990242" /></a><br />I tried to link the 7641 different Twitter users to their location, their country - based on the information in the Twitter profiles. <br /><br />The top 5 countries ranked according to the number of messages : <br /><blockquote>Netherlands 34% of all messages related to Poken<br />Germany 16%<br />Japan 15%<br />USA 9%<br />Belgium 4%</blockquote>The top 5 countries ranked according to the users : <br /><blockquote>Netherlands 24% of all users posting Twitter messages related to Poken<br />Germany 16%<br />USA 14%<br />Japan 9%<br />Belgium 5%</blockquote>A similar distribution can be found in the information for Google Trends for Twitter. Both lists are dominated by The Netherlands. Swiss internet users search often for poken, however Twitter uses from Switzerland are less active, they are only ranked 7.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2LT5maCDvbee0M6UF4t6YOU0rKtqK_AnmP6dbL1BwVOdfMLeKrIFkHUMqWe1M0BOzN1_aL2UJnR5jWX7Nv0VZzzFbnkzpF3Pci-9bqapNVHfOR8EyNoCUmiaAL83ZGXi4LSzydUGm6IY/s1600-h/tf-poken-googletrends2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 279px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2LT5maCDvbee0M6UF4t6YOU0rKtqK_AnmP6dbL1BwVOdfMLeKrIFkHUMqWe1M0BOzN1_aL2UJnR5jWX7Nv0VZzzFbnkzpF3Pci-9bqapNVHfOR8EyNoCUmiaAL83ZGXi4LSzydUGm6IY/s400/tf-poken-googletrends2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331577009570869010" /></a><br />The hype in the different countries can be observed in the graph showing the number of Twitter messages related to poken. Twitter users in the Netherlands started posting Twitter messages related to poken from December 2008, with a first peak around mid January 2009. Since then the hype around Poken has faded away within the Dutch Twitter user community. Twitter users in Germany picked up the Poken hype around mid March 2009, with a first peak on March 28. The hype is still continuing at a rate of about 100 Twitter messages per day.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiTWs5t_8fHq0TpSyLYIlk1kcJGChOngxkkQu9vawH9oNXOUxjjInpOTv8E1ho74iw2mnRdVgSWL7YOzwydDnjHaPBrJWY526BAzaGcDDZqD5CgoCGYEDzeKYEGuQYnrQaKHfg893z3no/s1600-h/tf-poken-tweets2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 231px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiTWs5t_8fHq0TpSyLYIlk1kcJGChOngxkkQu9vawH9oNXOUxjjInpOTv8E1ho74iw2mnRdVgSWL7YOzwydDnjHaPBrJWY526BAzaGcDDZqD5CgoCGYEDzeKYEGuQYnrQaKHfg893z3no/s400/tf-poken-tweets2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331580122588019842" /></a><br />A similar pattern can be observed in the graph showing the number of Twitter users having posted messages related to poken. Currently there are more Twitter users in the Netherlands who have posted Poken related Twitter messages, but it the trend continues there will be soon more German Twitter users.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyby5jLI4gAHfM9jHJCiluQwOGGrI74yAB9zV1_t4crscrWcN-x34r7U4HYWpDdaOjz3_9G8yXv_vA9hwMOofDZCt8w8hYXM4BapeFTNqLkIMi9q1uUdz4uot1ugPXu1x0LzRlW_bK6X4/s1600-h/tf-poken-users2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 224px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyby5jLI4gAHfM9jHJCiluQwOGGrI74yAB9zV1_t4crscrWcN-x34r7U4HYWpDdaOjz3_9G8yXv_vA9hwMOofDZCt8w8hYXM4BapeFTNqLkIMi9q1uUdz4uot1ugPXu1x0LzRlW_bK6X4/s400/tf-poken-users2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331580119818412034" /></a><br />Twitter messages related to poken came from over 70 countries, from all over the world. There came from the Netherlands and Germany (as can be observed in the graphs shown above), from Japan and the United States, but also from countries such as Argentina, South Africa, New Zealand, China and Malaysia. Dedicated Twitter accounts for Pokens have been set up in different countries : <a href="http://twitter.com/PokenBelgique" target=_blank>Belgium</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/pokengermany" target=_blank>Germany</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/PokenItalia" target=_blank>Italy</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/PokenJapan" target=_blank>Japan</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/POKENSLOVAKIA" target=_blank>Slovakia</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/pokenspain" target=_blank>Spain</a> and <a href="http://twitter.com/pokensouthafric" target=_blank>South Africa</a>.Bruno Peetershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16135336038823520839noreply@blogger.com28tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002661741282466322.post-58673373179116112112009-03-21T12:50:00.004+01:002009-03-21T15:10:47.062+01:00Happy Birthday TwitterThe initial idea of Jack Dorsey that resulted in the development of <a href="http://twitter.com/" target=_blank>Twitter</a> is available <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jackdorsey/182613360/" target=_blank>on Flickr</a>. This idea dates back to 2000, when Jack Dorsey signed up to Livejournal. The current <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter" target=_blank>wikipedia article on Twitter</a> states that Twitter began as a research project in March 2006 at Odeo, a podcasting company.<br /><br />The first tweets of some of the oldest Twitter users are still available. The first tweets were published on March 21, 2006, exactly 3 years ago. Happy Birthday Twitter.<br /><br /><a href="http://twitter.com/jack" target=_blank>Jack Dorsey</a>, 12:50 PM Mar 21st, 2006 - <a href="http://twitter.com/jack/status/20" target=_blank>Twitter Message number 20</a><br /><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;width: 400px; height: 180px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguoVJedQcIpnUTVbTeZ5XK5oxHqy5D2w0IdPjoGX_t2eUxVQRfDfsexCTEH462JmsLBRJe0u6ZHvws3JEplpn5T6s02lczhyk31J1ZfDRAjZEHfsVYHbCBG83ndfj9EhgNZQn2r9gvMdM/s400/tf-first-tweet.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315432795881639202" /><br /><a href="http://twitter.com/biz" target=_blank>Biz Stone</a>, 12:51 PM Mar 21st, 2006 - <a href="http://twitter.com/biz/status/21" target=_blank>Twitter Message number 21</a><br /><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;width: 400px; height: 177px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWX-WQznz5s20wYV2DkNF1DSV5lecT-4ow5ZOfPMTFucs7Cd2j_8Tw5MerpiTdbNGr9vV5AZQZzKfkNsRGUuG_WZIWJLc-tXMvH65HI27JiUsUipmGtAZ-jD2wZK9IpDRyNnzbMG8_vhU/s400/tf-first-tweet2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315433389771551122" /><br /><a href="http://twitter.com/noah" target=_blank>noah</a>, 1:00 PM Mar 21st, 2006 - <a href="http://twitter.com/noah/status/22" target=_blank>Message number 22</a><br /><br /><a href="http://twitter.com/tonystubblebine" target=_blank>Tony Stubblebine</a>, 1:01 PM Mar 21st, 2006 - <a href="http://twitter.com/tonystubblebine/status/25" target=_blank>Message number 25</a><br /><br /><a href="http://twitter.com/ev" target=_blank>Evan Williams</a>, 1:02 PM Mar 21st, 2006 - <a href="http://twitter.com/ev/status/28" target=_blank>Message number 28</a><br /><br /><a href="http://twitter.com/dom" target=_blank>Dom Sagolla</a>, 1:03 PM Mar 21st, 2006 - <a href="http://twitter.com/dom/status/31" target=_blank>Message number 31</a><br /><br /><a href="http://twitter.com/timroberts" target=_blank>Tim Roberts</a>, 1:08 PM Mar 21st, 2006 - <a href="http://twitter.com/timroberts/status/36" target=_blank>Message number 36</a><br /><br /><a href="http://twitter.com/rayreadyray" target=_blank>rayreadyray</a>, 3:40 PM Mar 21st, 2006 - <a href="http://twitter.com/rayreadyray/status/70" target=_blank>Message number 70</a><br /><br /><a href="http://twitter.com/ariel" target=_blank>ariel</a>, 4:16 PM Mar 21st, 2006 - <a href="http://twitter.com/ariel/status/79" target=_blank>Message number 79</a>Bruno Peetershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16135336038823520839noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002661741282466322.post-85216792762343682222009-02-16T08:24:00.002+01:002009-02-16T08:24:00.791+01:00News on TwitterOn January 23, 2008, a 20 year old man forced his way into a child day care center in Dendermonde, a small town in Belgium, Europe. He attacked the staff and the little children in the child day care center with a knife. One staff member and two babies were killed, several other staff members and babies were severly wounded. The agressor managed initially to escape, but he was arrested 90 minutes later.<br /><br />Very quick the news of this horrible attack found its way to Twitter. As soon as the attack was mentioned on websites of Belgian newspapers, Twitter users picked up the story and expressed their agony in their Twitter messages. Later on the articles on Belgian news sites were also announced on Twitter, in Twitter messages that were automatically created. The news about this horrible attack became also known to news agencies, newspapers, radio and television stations and news aggregators worldwide, who also published it on their Twitter accounts.<br /><br />Using <a href="http://search.twitter.com/">Twitter Search</a>, I traced the Twitter messages containing the words "Dendermonde" or "Termonde" - the French name for Dendermonde. From October 2008 until the moment of this writing, these words were mentioned in 1450 Twitter messages from 409 different Twitter users. The graph below shows the number of Twitter messages containing the words "Dendermonde" or "Termonde" per hour. <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAfbQUD9co0l3WpqbSZ49QZirQS4-pGyOHy0a0YM2Yo7hx8SS2bDbPPcHuMQyBszOsRWZ4dhTo9N7OnUZ7QIvKqnaSYdgdUWJWJaab3Tw-yfDX9fvDE_4d06d_hjYCl6zBuBC0bbZVs44/s1600-h/tf-dendermonde.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 230px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAfbQUD9co0l3WpqbSZ49QZirQS4-pGyOHy0a0YM2Yo7hx8SS2bDbPPcHuMQyBszOsRWZ4dhTo9N7OnUZ7QIvKqnaSYdgdUWJWJaab3Tw-yfDX9fvDE_4d06d_hjYCl6zBuBC0bbZVs44/s400/tf-dendermonde.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303061533960295346" /></a><br />The peak on the graph is the hour after the stabbings were commited. Later smaller peaks occured when new facts about the agressor became public and when the funeral services for the victems were held.<br /><br />As can be expected, a large part of these Twitter users can be located in Belgium. Belgium is followed by the Netherlands and France, neighbouring countries of Belgium. There were also Twitter users from countries far from Belgium announcing the horrible facts, e.g. Switzerland, Austria, Norway, Portugal and Serbia in Europe, also in the USA and Canada, in Brazil and South Africa, and also in Asia (Malaysia, Philippines).<br /><br />74% of the Twitter messages containing the words "Dendermonde" or "Termonde" contained a hyperlink to a story on a newssite or a blogpost. The most productive Twitter users turned out to be Twitter users from news agencies, newspapers, radio and television stations and news aggregators. The 409 Twitter users posting messages containing the words "Dendermonde" or "Termonde" have in total over 100,000 followers. As Twitter Search is only capable of finding Twitter messages for public Twitter users, the total number of Twitter users who published messages containing the words "Dendermonde" or "Termonde" will probably exceed 409. The total number of Twitter users who were potentially informed of the horrible facts on January 23, 2009 at Dendermonde will probably exceed 100,000.<br /><br />This analysis of this event shows that traditional media have discovered their way to Twitter. A large part of the messages published after the dramatic stabbings were indeed automatically published by these Twitter news accounts.<br /><br />News travels also far and travels fast. Within a couple of hours Twitter users from locations far outside Belgium also twittered the horrible facts.<br /><br />Currently the storm caused by the horrible facts has faded away. Life in and around Dendermonde has returned to its normal state. Unfortunatly several families will have to live with the tragical loss of life.Bruno Peetershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16135336038823520839noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002661741282466322.post-56909702664124382292009-02-15T12:30:00.003+01:002009-02-15T12:36:51.781+01:00Short Twitter NamesThere are no official figures of the number of Twitter users. Estimations go up to 8 million. As the number of Twitter users increases daily, new Twitter users find out that it is not easy to find a Twitter name that is still available. I had a close look at the shortest Twitter names, these consisting of only 1 and 2 characters.<br /><br />All 1 character long Twitter names are currently taken. 6 of these 37 Twitter names (A-Z, 0-9 and underscore) are private Twitter accounts, 4 of these Twitter names are without updates.<br /><br />There are 1369 Twitter names of 2 characters long - all combinations of A-Z, 0-9 and underscore. The good news is that 76 of these combinations are still free. 205 of the 2 character long Twitter accounts are private, 41 are suspended due to strange activity. 296 of the 2 character long Twitter accounts are still without updates.<br /><br />The oldest 2 character long Twitter account is <a href="http://twitter.com/ev" target=_blank>twitter.com/ev</a>. It is the Twitter account of Evan Williams, one of the founders of Twitter.com. Other famous 2 character long Twitter accounts are <a href="http://twitter.com/ie" target=_blank>ie</a> - IE (yes Internet Explorer), <a href="http://twitter.com/om" target=_blank>twitter.com/om</a> - Om Malik and <a href="http://twitter.com/f1" target=_blank>twitter.com/f1</a> - Formula 1. Some of the 2 character long Twitter account are cleary fake accounts, e.g. <a href="http://twitter.com/sf" target=_blank>twitter.com/sf</a> - San Francisco, but without friends and updates, <a href="http://twitter.com/fr" target=_blank>twitter.com/fr</a> - Francophonie, "voulez-vous coucher avec moi ?" and <a href="http://twitter.com/uk" target=_blank>twitter.com/uk</a> - no meaningful name or bio, but 195 followers.<br /><br />A lot of the 1 or 2 character long Twitter names are taken but not really used. In total there are 1406 combinations. 1289 combinations or 92% taken. Only 473 of these Twitter accounts have a location, 384 of these locations are "real" locations.<br /><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center; width: 400px; height: 337px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi64vdJ8mKZSXq8AtYHJQEhzRDgWKkqP6jtut7MZPp8WXgVh8H_Z_JTy-VkUEp8b7KpaCofj07TY_YTtNdUq3vCx1r2OPUeZvVnfV-vPEKzMkDhPwAbINQLqA8T9WOPAadgvsY8HutlbDk/s400/tf-short-names.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302985320186424210" /><br />The 1289 Twitter accounts have on average 49 friends (other Twitter accounts that are followed), with <a href="http://twitter.com/s" target=_blank>twitter.com/s</a> the Twitter account with the most friends - 11722. 572 Twitter accounts have no friends at all.<br /><br />The 1289 Twitter accounts with a (very) short name are on average being followed by 186 other Twitter users, with <a href="http://twitter.com/ev" target=_blank>twitter.com/ev</a> having the most followers - 98712. 346 Twitter accounts do not have followers.<br /><br />The 1289 Twitter accounts with a (very) short name have on average 405 updates. The most productive Twitter account is <a href="http://twitter.com/zb" target=_blank>twitter.com/zb</a>, with as of this writing 45469 updates. 300 Twitter accounts are still waiting for their first update.<br /><br />Of the 1289 Twitter accounts with a (very) short name 136 accounts stand out as blank accounts, accounts without friends, followers or updates.<br /><br />If you are looking for a (very) short Twitter Name, you are either too late of you will have to hurry to get your Twitter account registered. Or you could consider to persuade the holder of one of the inactive accounts to hand over his Twitter account.Bruno Peetershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16135336038823520839noreply@blogger.com40tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002661741282466322.post-84345424639949262862009-01-23T01:42:00.001+01:002009-01-23T01:45:37.977+01:00Twitter traffic according to Hitwise<a href="http://www.hitwise.com/" target=_blank>Hitwise</a> has published over the last days three posts with interesting information on traffic to the Twitter website. They analysed traffic to twitter.com in three countries : UK, USA and Australia. <br /><br />Let's start with <a href="http://weblogs.hitwise.com/robin-goad/2009/01/twitter_traffic_up_10-fold.html" target=_blank>the UK</a>. Twitter.com is the 291st most visited website in the UK. Internet traffic has increased by 974% over one year, see the graph below.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcFfQEzvVoNmQlxjg1d4p0NwwSaLK3x3VNr7jvED3za1ST8jJ9wyCctQ7pcCFNFW_nMyoVwxlf4DO2nZAPaktp9i-zYdwpBGQFG5rj3fOlR1NVsi12nWN0G950EYLbMBtjRjA-9nUQll0/s1600-h/tf-Hitwise-Twitter_UK_traffic_grwoth_2008_2009_chart.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 325px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcFfQEzvVoNmQlxjg1d4p0NwwSaLK3x3VNr7jvED3za1ST8jJ9wyCctQ7pcCFNFW_nMyoVwxlf4DO2nZAPaktp9i-zYdwpBGQFG5rj3fOlR1NVsi12nWN0G950EYLbMBtjRjA-9nUQll0/s400/tf-Hitwise-Twitter_UK_traffic_grwoth_2008_2009_chart.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294283407687802050" /></a><br /><br />Hitwise does only taken direct traffic to twitter.com into account. If the people accessing their Twitter accounts via mobile phones and third party applications (such as Twitterrific, Twitterfeed and Tweetdeck) were included, the numbers would be even higher. <br /><br />There are also a few figures on downstream traffic, on what type of links do Twitter users click on : <br />17.6% of Twitter’s downstream traffic goes to entertainment websites, <br />10% of goes to News and Media websites, <br />14.6% goes to social networks, <br />6.6% to blogs and finally<br />4.5% to online retailers.<br /><br />A few days earlier an analysis of Twitter traffic <a href="http://weblogs.hitwise.com/heather-dougherty/2009/01/twitter_catches_up_to_digg.html" target=_blank>in the USA</a> was also published. According to Hitwise, Twitter.com attracks more visitors than Digg. Twitter is ranked #84 in computers and internet category, one place before Digg, ranked #85.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhORWINd8Kvw5CFtD7i9E6GyPhfYi-1fze-gMJZ1hXn7WA1fB0Sa8ZE73_Oq3sLk6-KOoQNW6ZABW3K0zIZH3VTb1HCFWLggcKoz8b3tE_JMeVojqf8MYCTunAUC8Sh3ft2FNRn7gcSq6s/s1600-h/tf-Hitwise-Twitter-Digg.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 317px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhORWINd8Kvw5CFtD7i9E6GyPhfYi-1fze-gMJZ1hXn7WA1fB0Sa8ZE73_Oq3sLk6-KOoQNW6ZABW3K0zIZH3VTb1HCFWLggcKoz8b3tE_JMeVojqf8MYCTunAUC8Sh3ft2FNRn7gcSq6s/s400/tf-Hitwise-Twitter-Digg.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294283405270429202" /></a><br /><br />Traffic to Twitter <a href="http://weblogs.hitwise.com/sandra-hanchard/2009/01/twitter_maintains_growth_in_vi.html" target=_blank>from Australia</a> has also grown significantly, 517.9% up over one year, as shown on the graph below.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiofSVJ0eIJplOnQP9S9RI5Eo78thHM5XCtIhjMmiH_0u1qlied251d-7tgCUvsreihgJ_BU9lDK63Q3TOwhFlfX9LZMeGRkXJ8Z-UuLJDZO_oSh91Vy-f1vNqBfWhH85KCqHFdBc5LZhs/s1600-h/tf-Hitwise-TwitterVisits-Australia.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 325px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiofSVJ0eIJplOnQP9S9RI5Eo78thHM5XCtIhjMmiH_0u1qlied251d-7tgCUvsreihgJ_BU9lDK63Q3TOwhFlfX9LZMeGRkXJ8Z-UuLJDZO_oSh91Vy-f1vNqBfWhH85KCqHFdBc5LZhs/s400/tf-Hitwise-TwitterVisits-Australia.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294283399752552674" /></a>Bruno Peetershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16135336038823520839noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002661741282466322.post-3939418375076629232009-01-08T00:56:00.003+01:002009-01-08T01:06:56.749+01:00TwitterFriends<a href="http://twitterfacts.blogspot.com/2008/10/twinfluence.html" target=_blank>Twinfluence</a> was one of the first services offering metrics to quantify the influence of a Twitter user.<br /><br /><a href="http://twitter-friends.com/index.php" target=_blank>TwitterFriends</a> goes a step further, by offering more metrics and additional information for individual Twitter users.<br /><br />This is the list of metrics calculated by TwitterFriends.<ul><li>Size of relevant net (outgoing) : Number of Twitter users, the submitted Twitter user replied to more than once the last 30 days<br /><li>Size of relevant net (incoming) : Number of Twitter users that replied to the submitted Twitter user more than once within the last 30 days<br /><li>Fans : Number of Twitter users that replied to guykawasaki within the last 30 days<br /><li>Stickiness : Number of people who replied at least twice / total number of replying users<br /><li>Twitter Rank : This is the position of the submitted Twitter user in the ranking of Twitterers receiving the most replies<br /><li>Ratio of outgoing to incoming contacts<br /><li>Overlap of outgoing and incoming net<br /><li>Tweets sent / day 50 Average<br /><li>Follow cost in milliscobles <br /><li>Replies sent / day <br /><li>Conversation Quotient (CQ) : Share of Tweets by the submitted Twitter user that were replies<br /><li>Conversational Rank <br /><li>Replies received / day <br /><li>Links posted by the submitted Twitter / day <br /><li>Link Quotient (LQ) : Share of Tweets by the submitted Twitter that included links <br /><li>Replies with Links by the submitted Twitter user's friends / day <br /><li>Link per friend</ul>Six of these metrics are plotted on a graph, called TwitGraph. Below you can find printscreens of the results for two famous Twitter accounts : <a href="http://twitter.com/barackobama" target=_blank>Barack Obama</a> and <a href="http://twitter.com/guykawasaki" target=_blank>Guy Kawasaki</a>. Both graphs are quite differently. <a href="http://twitter.com/guykawasaki" target=_blank>Guy Kawasaki</a> engages actively in Twitter conversations. <a href="http://twitter.com/barackobama" target=_blank>Barack Obama</a> is the most followed user, but this Twitter user does not publish very often Twitter messages and this Twitter user does not reply to twitter messages of its followers.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVYS7hd3xQyRwZdsY30_BU0uJKtDohavtB2qz-UwbTIDaYv6pYpafuAuh2zpZdvm-VaTeNnaI2b8POzZXgKgBD1Fg7E1ZHO_WhqMjWqueu_OjXO7CYAfL_JJ53mZHo28IcWfMNI47Bg-M/s1600-h/tf-twitterfriends-guykawasaki.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 367px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVYS7hd3xQyRwZdsY30_BU0uJKtDohavtB2qz-UwbTIDaYv6pYpafuAuh2zpZdvm-VaTeNnaI2b8POzZXgKgBD1Fg7E1ZHO_WhqMjWqueu_OjXO7CYAfL_JJ53mZHo28IcWfMNI47Bg-M/s400/tf-twitterfriends-guykawasaki.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288706030695136226" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-4xIrESh2qnAT1YWZSRPh7IMndnjw5SCtuQJMMDvlggU5IZo7PkKe27uZPkwDwAHhTgxyHMJESQxMsO7Aoy1ny_85vpsL9laSWh12oz-zprDP19nDAegPErMaUeD859-FQnVz0Y1l0Rs/s1600-h/tf-twitterfriends-barackobama.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 366px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-4xIrESh2qnAT1YWZSRPh7IMndnjw5SCtuQJMMDvlggU5IZo7PkKe27uZPkwDwAHhTgxyHMJESQxMsO7Aoy1ny_85vpsL9laSWh12oz-zprDP19nDAegPErMaUeD859-FQnVz0Y1l0Rs/s400/tf-twitterfriends-barackobama.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288706029453652674" /></a>Bruno Peetershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16135336038823520839noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002661741282466322.post-25027420218990568282008-12-28T23:06:00.000+01:002008-12-29T02:15:59.349+01:00Retweets and Twitter BotsThere is recently a lot of discussion going on concerning the authority of Twitter users : <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/12/27/bloggers-lose-the-plot-over-twitter-search/" target=_blank>Michael Arrington</a>, <a href="http://scobleizer.com/2008/12/28/twitter-idiot-land/" target=_blank>Robert Scoble</a>, <a href="http://www.loiclemeur.com/english/2008/12/twitter-we-need-search-by-authority.html" target=_blank>Loic Le Meur</a>. Some bloggers propose that the number of followers is a good measure of the authority of a Twitter user. Others argue that other elements should be taken into account, e.g. the number of retweets. A retweet is when a Twitter user copies a twitter message from another Twitter user in their network and shares it with their network, hereby mentioning the author of the original Twitter message.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.loiclemeur.com/english/2008/12/twitter-we-need-search-by-authority.html" target=_blank>As Loic Le Meur stated</a> that there were over 7,000 tweets for the <a href="http://www.leweb3.com/" target=_blank>Le Web 3 conference</a> that was held in the beginning of December 2008, I checked the <a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23leweb" target=_blank>number of search results produced by Twitter Search</a> (previously Summize). I came accross a remarkable sequence of tweets. Have a look yourself, e.g. by <a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=the+other+problem+on+covering+%23leweb" target=_blank>trying this search</a>.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1IQj49baXptebFgKOzOXwBpFZLvQv4d4hlIrc-tuGDH6LQ0ZW5wgmHkLY1hsUBjn1d-aP4skHXdb4gs0o1WJha2DrPAUKfRQznSyx12Q-_IecwrdU9PKcRSxkfduS6Yj6uj8l8EfAdAA/s1600-h/tf-leweb-twittersearch.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 252px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1IQj49baXptebFgKOzOXwBpFZLvQv4d4hlIrc-tuGDH6LQ0ZW5wgmHkLY1hsUBjn1d-aP4skHXdb4gs0o1WJha2DrPAUKfRQznSyx12Q-_IecwrdU9PKcRSxkfduS6Yj6uj8l8EfAdAA/s400/tf-leweb-twittersearch.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285012929849499602" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://twitter.com/dotdean" target=_blank>One tweet</a> (by <a href="http://twitter.com/dotdean/statuses/1082086345" target=_blank>dotdean</a>) is retweeted by several Twitter bots, resulting in 10 additional tweets. You can find the sequence of all these tweets in the graphic below.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW9_PPysqEGVqGLFji8bDzUwur8vp9hH1UxQetLK5f4iZBcxDRIEwFLqUV092TaWAEqsXbdA1_xFSkV9ric2bKV-VtZJIosbc6VIPRClO9sC2uxsAYZELsSoNUkBsWyqOGqIyxUDAezMs/s1600-h/tf-leweb-structure.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 364px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW9_PPysqEGVqGLFji8bDzUwur8vp9hH1UxQetLK5f4iZBcxDRIEwFLqUV092TaWAEqsXbdA1_xFSkV9ric2bKV-VtZJIosbc6VIPRClO9sC2uxsAYZELsSoNUkBsWyqOGqIyxUDAezMs/s400/tf-leweb-structure.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285012937790592514" /></a><br /><br />Furthermore 10 additional URL shortcuts were created : <a href="http://tr.im/2ool" target=_blank>http://tr.im/2ool</a>, <a href="http://tinyurl.com/98cx3x" target=_blank>http://tinyurl.com/98cx3x</a>, <a href="http://is.gd/dOdC" target=_blank>http://is.gd/dOdC</a>, <a href="http://is.gd/dOdF" target=_blank>http://is.gd/dOdF</a>, <a href="http://bit.ly/14i9j" target=_blank>http://bit.ly/14i9j</a>, <a href="http://tinyurl.com/76dvzl" target=_blank>http://tinyurl.com/76dvzl</a>, <a href="http://bit.ly/h4p9" target=_blank>http://bit.ly/h4p9</a>, <a href="http://bit.ly/JebP" target=_blank>http://bit.ly/JebP</a>, <a href="http://tinyurl.com/9jjwvz" target=_blank>http://tinyurl.com/9jjwvz</a>, <a href="http://is.gd/dOtd" target=_blank>http://is.gd/dOtd</a> and <a href="http://is.gd/dOte" target=_blank>http://is.gd/dOte</a>.<br /><br />With this example in mind, I think there are some problems by taking the number of retweets into account for the authority of a Twitter user.Bruno Peetershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16135336038823520839noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002661741282466322.post-32822398120528436402008-12-14T23:18:00.003+01:002008-12-14T23:27:50.193+01:00First State of the Twitosphere in MalaysiaMalaysia is a country in Southeast Asia. In the series of states of the Twitosphere on this blog, I did not yet publish a state of the Twitosphere for a Southeast Asian country. The first question in such an analysis is the number of Twitter users in Malaysia. <a href="http://twitter.com/tw/search/users">Twitter user search</a> is already disabled for a while, so I cannot inform you on the number of Twitter users in Malaysia according to Twitter itself. <br /><br />Based on the location info in the Twitter profiles, I was able to find <strong>3429 Twitter users in Malaysia</strong>, all active users. These users make an explicit reference to Malaysia, the country itself or a geographical location within this country. Persons who have closed their Twitter accounts are not included in this number. Because the number of Twitter users not mentioning a true location in their Twitter profile is estimated at around 50%, the actual number of Twitter users in Malaysia will probably exceed 3429. With a population of 27,730,000 people (source <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia">Wikipedia</a>), the Twitter user density for Malaysia is one Twitter account for every 8087 inhabitants. <br /><br /><strong>History of the Twitter accounts in Malaysia</strong> <br />The graph below shows the history of the Twitter accounts from Malaysia. The graph is based on the date of the first message posted on each of the public Twitter accounts. Twitter users who haven't published any messages and Twitter users with a private profile (their messages are only visible for their approved followers) are not included in this graph. Twitter started late in Malaysia. The oldest Twitter users date back from March 2006. Only 6 months later first users from Malaysia started using Twitter.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq1caVe2JRqJftxY9N5kU07IWw2j1K0uKFbk7XD3V7L9csr6hcZj8mVfycoqTBJ_FHPBp2FHzOiwaK1AljLCSIyKD82knLVuzcnfEc5zFqApZy5zi8WF7wuBYjdZNRjEIE3wAiGUYsZ-8/s1600-h/tf-malaysia-history.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 290px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq1caVe2JRqJftxY9N5kU07IWw2j1K0uKFbk7XD3V7L9csr6hcZj8mVfycoqTBJ_FHPBp2FHzOiwaK1AljLCSIyKD82knLVuzcnfEc5zFqApZy5zi8WF7wuBYjdZNRjEIE3wAiGUYsZ-8/s400/tf-malaysia-history.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5279774714004368370" /></a><br /><br />Oldest Twitter accounts from Malaysia<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/Adriana>http://twitter.com/Adriana</a> - Adriana - first message on August 27, 2006<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/adamgiles_com>http://twitter.com/adamgiles_com</a> - Adam Giles - first message on September 4, 2006<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/praveenrajan>http://twitter.com/praveenrajan</a> - Praveen Rajan - first message on September 5, 2006<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/Clowve>http://twitter.com/Clowve</a> - Clowve - first message on October 4, 2006<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/JerryOng>http://twitter.com/JerryOng</a> - Jerry Ong - first message on October 6, 2006<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/syedsyahrul>http://twitter.com/syedsyahrul</a> - syed syahrul zarizi - first message on October 31, 2006<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/tropicaljantie>http://twitter.com/tropicaljantie</a> - tropicaljantie - first message on November 3, 2006<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/reneetan>http://twitter.com/reneetan</a> - Renee - first message on November 3, 2006<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/SmartGuy>http://twitter.com/SmartGuy</a> - SmartGuy - first message on November 9, 2006<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/bee>http://twitter.com/bee</a> - bee - first message on November 21, 2006<br /><br /><strong>Private or public</strong><br />309 Twitter acounts from Malaysia or 9% have chosen to keep their updates only available to their friends.<br /><br /><strong>Number of following</strong> <br />A Twitter user can choose to follow one or more other Twitter accounts, called "following". 682 Twitter accounts from Malaysia or 20% do not follow other Twitter users. An average Twitter account from Malaysia follows 34 Twitter accounts.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrGVu5S2jnj0ZZ79qZOcnWuZXP6eAU4yh3GafJuGIw66E6qoGiLKrBQdGu3o4ypSBExc9vFugE_wngCz418V1BIutCkfuyGFaBAL1H9uAAkyyngOG5hQsHkmQsZEfKyzHMC11GGwb9Nb4/s1600-h/tf-malaysia-following.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 288px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrGVu5S2jnj0ZZ79qZOcnWuZXP6eAU4yh3GafJuGIw66E6qoGiLKrBQdGu3o4ypSBExc9vFugE_wngCz418V1BIutCkfuyGFaBAL1H9uAAkyyngOG5hQsHkmQsZEfKyzHMC11GGwb9Nb4/s400/tf-malaysia-following.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5279774706243189186" /></a><br /><br />Top 10 following<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/May_>http://twitter.com/May_</a> - Mayen - 2,858 following<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/thangwai>http://twitter.com/thangwai</a> - thangwai - 2,051 following<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/home_remedies>http://twitter.com/home_remedies</a> - home_remedies - 2,000 following<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/LearnOnlineBiz>http://twitter.com/LearnOnlineBiz</a> - LearnOnlineBiz - 2,000 following<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/joker400>http://twitter.com/joker400</a> - Ibrahim - 2,000 following<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/ashique>http://twitter.com/ashique</a> - Ashique M. Abdullah - 2,000 following<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/vacom>http://twitter.com/vacom</a> - vacom - 1,999 following<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/esthercsk>http://twitter.com/esthercsk</a> - Esther Cheang SK - 1,998 following<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/Gloson>http://twitter.com/Gloson</a> - Gloson Teh - 1,991 following<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/razali87>http://twitter.com/razali87</a> - Mohd. Razali - 1,979 following<br /><br /><strong>Number of followers</strong> <br />A follower is someone who has indicated another Twitter account as following and receives all updates of that other Twitter account. 77 Twitter users from Malaysia or 2% have no Twitter followers at all, meaning that no one else on Twitter has indicated this account as following. The messages published by these Twitter users are only read by themselves (and by search engines). An average Twitter user from Malaysia has 31 followers.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqhWunUdje8ewl6mUJqzjLP55SY4UfgHVNafBaEYw2LIFAxCBPzx4TMmXYoKNDIqkyebUuIgz52s0hx-wcJiG5Rg_qkKuLv8Ub4k2hSWXCPI_U6esDii5SZCR8xNuE1-fi2gRvBipiUHQ/s1600-h/tf-malaysia-followers.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 288px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqhWunUdje8ewl6mUJqzjLP55SY4UfgHVNafBaEYw2LIFAxCBPzx4TMmXYoKNDIqkyebUuIgz52s0hx-wcJiG5Rg_qkKuLv8Ub4k2hSWXCPI_U6esDii5SZCR8xNuE1-fi2gRvBipiUHQ/s400/tf-malaysia-followers.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5279774706306928674" /></a><br /><br />Top 10 followers<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/Gloson>http://twitter.com/Gloson</a> - Gloson Teh - 1,790 followers<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/Artmaker>http://twitter.com/Artmaker</a> - I-Ming - 1,711 followers<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/home_remedies>http://twitter.com/home_remedies</a> - home_remedies - 1,339 followers<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/LearnOnlineBiz>http://twitter.com/LearnOnlineBiz</a> - LearnOnlineBiz - 1,095 followers<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/chetzyusof>http://twitter.com/chetzyusof</a> - Chetz Yusof - 1,032 followers<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/bobkor>http://twitter.com/bobkor</a> - bobkor - 839 followers<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/WayneLiew>http://twitter.com/WayneLiew</a> - Wayne Liew - 820 followers<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/joker400>http://twitter.com/joker400</a> - Ibrahim - 816 followers<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/euginn>http://twitter.com/euginn</a> - euginn - 766 followers<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/JerryOng>http://twitter.com/JerryOng</a> - Jerry Ong - 751 followers<br /><br /><strong>Updates</strong> <br />An update is the term refering to Twitter messages published by a Twitter users. These are also called tweets. The average number of updates for a Twitter users from Malaysia is 123. 205 Twitter users (or 6%) are still waiting for their first message to be published. Below you can find the top 10.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC90CiGOZVFT-Y1jbSXEZCqKlsD670orc6FudKR-vPgS2sG-Ohsq_UKlQO96Gg4M3g8wKX-WbfgiDBmpXI7_SaNY3gbvdviMwl_KZml0MfT_8co0i4sVFuGIdABHbvy9rngye-C19_rpo/s1600-h/tf-malaysia-updates.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 288px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC90CiGOZVFT-Y1jbSXEZCqKlsD670orc6FudKR-vPgS2sG-Ohsq_UKlQO96Gg4M3g8wKX-WbfgiDBmpXI7_SaNY3gbvdviMwl_KZml0MfT_8co0i4sVFuGIdABHbvy9rngye-C19_rpo/s400/tf-malaysia-updates.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5279774705158638050" /></a><br /><br />Top 10 updates<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/kiongchiu>http://twitter.com/kiongchiu</a> - Sparkish - 15,905 updates<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/NewStraitsTimes>http://twitter.com/NewStraitsTimes</a> - New Straits Times - 11,703 updates<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/rasso>http://twitter.com/rasso</a> - Lan Rasso - 9,458 updates<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/ppmy>http://twitter.com/ppmy</a> - I follow Penangites! - 7,074 updates<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/Sanjaghak>http://twitter.com/Sanjaghak</a> - FateMeh - 5,712 updates<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/neonplanet>http://twitter.com/neonplanet</a> - NeonPlanet - 4,763 updates<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/liewcf>http://twitter.com/liewcf</a> - Liew Cheon Fong - 4,522 updates<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/Artmaker>http://twitter.com/Artmaker</a> - I-Ming - 3,800 updates<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/reese>http://twitter.com/reese</a> - reese spykerman - 3,638 updates<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/jfkjohan>http://twitter.com/jfkjohan</a> - Johan F. Khairuddin - 3,505 updates<br /><br /><strong>Degree of activity</strong> <br />29% of all Twitter users from Malaysia have publised at least one message in the last 7 days. <br />41% of all Twitter users from Malaysia have not published a message for more than a month. <br />9% of all Twitter users from Malaysia is private, so no information on their degree activity is available. <br />On 6% of the Twitter accounts from Malaysia not a single message has been published. <br /><br /><strong>Conclusion</strong> <br />The results of the analysis of the state of the twitosphere in Malaysia are comparable to the results for other previously analyzed countries. <br /><br />From August 2006 there were a few Malaysian users from Twitter. A first increase in popularity occured around March 2007. A next increase in popularity of Twitter started from April/May 2008, followed by a next increase in adoption speed from November 2008. Compared to the Western European countries the Twitter user density is still lower, so there are probably further a lot of people in Malaysia to be convinced of the use of Twitter.Bruno Peetershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16135336038823520839noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002661741282466322.post-49535709891551015132008-10-29T21:55:00.003+01:002008-10-29T22:08:47.600+01:00First State of the Twitosphere in Costa RicaA while ago a commenter on this blog <a href="http://twitterfacts.blogspot.com/2008/09/3-million-twitter-users.html?showComment=1223452980000#c2714820471970220452">asked</a> if I could also analyze the twitosphere in his country, Costa Rica. Costa Rica is a country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the east and south, the Pacific Ocean to the west and south and the Caribbean Sea to the east (source : <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa_Rica" target=_blank>Wikipedia</a>). I have never been to Costa Rica, so I do not have personal memories or opinions on this country. Nevertheless, I found it a good idea to have a closer look at the usage of Twitter in Costa Rica.<br /><br />The first question in such an analysis is the number of Twitter users in Costa Rica. Twitter user search is temporary disabled, so I cannot inform you on the number of <a href="https://twitter.com/tw/search/users?q=location%3A%22costa+rica%22" target=_blank>Twitter users in Costa Rica</a> according to Twitter itself. Twitdir reports <a href="http://twitdir.com/index.php?search=costa%20rica&where=l" target=_blank>338 Twitter users</a> for location Costa Rica.<br /><br />Based on the location info in the Twitter profiles, I was able to find 507 Twitter users in Costa Rica, still active users. Persons who have closed their Twitter accounts are not included in this number. Because the number of Twitter users not mentioning a true location in their Twitter profile is estimated at around 50%, the actual number of Twitter users in Costa Rica will probably exceed 507. With a population of 4.133 million people (source <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa_Rica" target=_blank>Wikipedia</a>), the Twitter user density for Costa Rica is one Twitter account for every 8,152 inhabitants. <br /><br /><strong>History of the Twitter accounts in Costa Rica</strong> <br />The graph below shows the history of the Twitter accounts from Costa Rica. The graph is based on the date of the first message posted on each of the public Twitter accounts. Twitter users who haven't published any messages and Twitter users with a private profile (their messages are only visible for their approved followers) are not included in this graph. Twitter started late in Costa Rica. The oldest Twitter users date back from March 2006. Only 8 months later first Costa Ricans started using Twitter.<br /><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;width: 400px; height: 290px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRi4VZ1jKFCYiir09_pjsT1seOU7I63M2mC7uqE-HcyxuMkKJJWSKpfRXTJLeDhQgcaWFgsPs8puXsOpJlwPHpWjVaJgYsOdA1nAAoPmsFCt3BGTwNJqWEDOs8OZ2CgMD_RjL51VstOF0/s400/tf-costarica-history.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262682644939317426" /><br /><br />Oldest Twitter accounts from Costa Rica<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/gringuitica>http://twitter.com/gringuitica</a> - Erin - first message on January 11, 2007<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/darcia>http://twitter.com/darcia</a> - David Arcia - first message on February 14, 2007<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/lizrincon>http://twitter.com/lizrincon</a> - Liz Rincon - first message on March 16, 2007<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/Gorileo>http://twitter.com/Gorileo</a> - Rogelio Umaña - first message on March 18, 2007<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/soloesteban>http://twitter.com/soloesteban</a> - Esteban Solorzano - first message on March 20, 2007<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/405>http://twitter.com/405</a> - Cuatro Cero Cinco - first message on March 22, 2007<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/MariHo>http://twitter.com/MariHo</a> - Mario HB - first message on March 28, 2007<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/nityananda>http://twitter.com/nityananda</a> - Nityananda das - first message on March 29, 2007<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/conejita236>http://twitter.com/conejita236</a> - Angel Ackermann - first message on April 6, 2007<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/BarryStev>http://twitter.com/BarryStev</a> - Barry Stevens - first message on April 22, 2007<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/Toxicomaniac>http://twitter.com/Toxicomaniac</a> - toxic - first message on April 26, 2007<br /><br /><strong>Private or public</strong><br />59 Twitter acounts from Costa Rica or 12% have chosen to keep their updates only available to their friends.<br /><br /><strong>Number of following</strong> <br />A Twitter user can choose to follow one or more other Twitter accounts, called "following". 84 Twitter accounts from Costa Rica or 17% do not follow other Twitter users. An average Twitter account from Costa Rica follows 31 Twitter accounts.<br /><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;width: 400px; height: 288px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOHd1z9dUZg7Rn1eldb3BSeWOpyGtLEKFJ27_oGucyycFaeOWp7spIjZQbQaxhN54ka6UVYUynXwEha7dQpNKcAbLznjLF2FI7BnVriKU33KnUxSaqXYdYYIQehozV6Ps86xB3V2etM7c/s400/tf-costarica-following.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262682653365050530" /><br /><br />Top 10 following<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/iecr>http://twitter.com/iecr</a> - Spanishinstitute - 2,000 following<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/muchacostarica>http://twitter.com/muchacostarica</a> - MuchaCostaRica.Com - 1,727 following<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/NicoPisani>http://twitter.com/NicoPisani</a> - NicoPisani - 655 following<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/Gorileo>http://twitter.com/Gorileo</a> - Rogelio Umaña - 493 following<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/iCostaRicaTV>http://twitter.com/iCostaRicaTV</a> - iCostaRicaTV - 425 following<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/jenfos>http://twitter.com/jenfos</a> - jenfos - 418 following<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/ReverendDoctor>http://twitter.com/ReverendDoctor</a> - TheReverendDoctor - 418 following<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/remediosgraphic>http://twitter.com/remediosgraphic</a> - remediosgraphic - 310 following<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/AlexOtarola>http://twitter.com/AlexOtarola</a> - Otárola - 213 following<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/stevekatz>http://twitter.com/stevekatz</a> - stevekatz - 212 following<br /><br /><strong>Number of followers</strong> <br />A follower is someone who has indicated another Twitter account as following and receives all updates of that other Twitter account. 40 Twitter users from Costa Rica or 8% have no Twitter followers at all, meaning that no one else on Twitter has indicated this account as following. The messages published by these Twitter users are only read by themselves (and by search engines). An average Twitter user from Costa Rica has 24 followers.<br /><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;width: 400px; height: 288px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQQRKadeNr9RPPoJ1O-AjwmlGWceQMLK999CcYl6f9hqIJeZh6VnKrBCVcE7mE1E-cGG-lMM81-scKJ1rp6hgMPXFkRls5Q5mQtaCSWBKXQR4v7kkoUnt6bzG3dc1hn7n-4w9awiTE5HM/s400/tf-costarica-followers.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262682655703138066" /><br /><br />Top 10 followers<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/muchacostarica>http://twitter.com/muchacostarica</a> - MuchaCostaRica.Com - 606 followers<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/Gorileo>http://twitter.com/Gorileo</a> - Rogelio Umaña - 518 followers<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/NicoPisani>http://twitter.com/NicoPisani</a> - NicoPisani - 443 followers<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/jenfos>http://twitter.com/jenfos</a> - jenfos - 283 followers<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/iecr>http://twitter.com/iecr</a> - Spanishinstitute - 283 followers<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/stevekatz>http://twitter.com/stevekatz</a> - stevekatz - 261 followers<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/SEOCharlie>http://twitter.com/SEOCharlie</a> - SEOCharlie - 236 followers<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/fusildechispas>http://twitter.com/fusildechispas</a> - cristian cambronero - 196 followers<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/remediosgraphic>http://twitter.com/remediosgraphic</a> - remediosgraphic - 158 followers<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/gringuitica>http://twitter.com/gringuitica</a> - Erin - 153 followers<br /><br /><strong>Updates</strong> <br />An update is the term refering to Twitter messages published by a Twitter users. These are also called tweets. The average number of updates for a Twitter users from Costa Rica is 118. 44 Twitter users (or 9%) are still waiting for their first message to be published. Below you can find the top 10.<br /><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;width: 400px; height: 288px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQEyb_NMAni4V6rpZbpRmQf5JxpPiuDUJukOaSUzh53VUa843UpC3s9s3Q3zrwc-17kx18NemVG2hKN8Et7AxMZCigQ4ovgMshugp-J2ddqGzaQUpLlj0OEhC0q0vVGs7Y3gHyNLqmK-A/s400/tf-costarica-updates.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262682658724564386" /><br /><br />Top 10 updates<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/Gorileo>http://twitter.com/Gorileo</a> - Rogelio Umaña - 3.715 updates<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/berylcorea>http://twitter.com/berylcorea</a> - berylcorea - 2.883 updates<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/reiterstahl>http://twitter.com/reiterstahl</a> - RQR - 2.248 updates<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/SEOCharlie>http://twitter.com/SEOCharlie</a> - SEOCharlie - 1.957 updates<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/OzaCR>http://twitter.com/OzaCR</a> - OzaCR - 1.804 updates<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/willvv>http://twitter.com/willvv</a> - Will Vásquez Vásquez - 1.621 updates<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/zoncho>http://twitter.com/zoncho</a> - Carlos Murillo - 1.461 updates<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/yeco>http://twitter.com/yeco</a> - Yeco - 1.337 updates<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/olesha>http://twitter.com/olesha</a> - olesha - 1.209 updates<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/Rafa>http://twitter.com/Rafa</a> - Rafael Gonzalez - 1.207 updates<br /><br /><strong>Degree of activity</strong> <br />37% of all Twitter users from Costa Rica have publised at least one message in the last 7 days. <br />30% of all Twitter users from Costa Rica have not published a message for more than a month. <br />12% of all Twitter users from Costa Rica have published at least message on in the period between 7 and 31 days (older than a week, but in the last month).<br /><br />12% of all Twitter users from Costa Rica is private, so no information on their degree activity is available. <br />On 9% of the Twitter accounts from Costa Rica not a single message has been published. <br /><br /><strong>Conclusion</strong> <br />Costa Rica is a relatively small country in Central America. It is not known for a significant contribution to what's happening on the internet or in the blogosphere of twitosphere. Neverthelessm there is an active Twitter community in Costa Rica. This community started rather late, but it is growing at a relatively high speed.Bruno Peetershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16135336038823520839noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002661741282466322.post-78972803483085638692008-10-14T00:06:00.001+02:002008-10-14T00:07:59.002+02:00BarackObama followersTwitter User <a href="http://twitter.com/BarackObama" target=_blank>BarackObama</a> has an incredible amount of followers. This Twitter account follows every Twitter user that follows BarackObama. Currently Twitter User BarackObama is following over 100,000 other Twitter users. A rough estimation of the number of Twitter messages per day per users can be made of two sources. <a href="http://twitturly.com/status/" target=_blank>Twiturly</a> scans between 200,000 and 250,000 Twitter messages per day, <a href="http://www.twitdir.com/" target=_blank>TwitDir</a> reports 3.18 million Twitters users. This leads to the following calculations.<br /><br /><strong>Number of Twitter Users</strong> (<a href="http://www.twitdir.com/" target=_blank>TwitDir</a>) : 3,183,544<br /><strong>Daily Twitter messages</strong> (<a href="http://twitturly.com/status/" target=_blank>Twiturly</a>) : 200,000 - 250,000<br /><strong>Number of Twitter messages per day and user</strong> : 0,063 - 0,079 <br /><strong>BarackObama followers</strong> : 101.350 <br /><strong>Twitter messages from BarackObama followers per day</strong> : 6.367 - 7.959<br /><strong>Twitter messages from BarackObama followers per hour</strong> : 265 - 332<br /><strong>Twitter messages from BarackObama followers per minute</strong> : 4.4 - 5.5<br /><br />It seems quite unlikely that Barack Obama himself would read all these Twitter messages. I even doubt it that a single person is capable of reading all these messages (5 per minute, 24 hours per day).Bruno Peetershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16135336038823520839noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002661741282466322.post-53934134310159559352008-10-13T19:36:00.002+02:002008-10-13T19:48:04.281+02:00TwinfluenceInfluence of a Twitter account does not solely depends on the number of people who are following the Twitter account. It also depends on the size of the network of the followers of Twitter account. <a href="http://twinfluence.com/" target=_blank>Twinfluence</a> applies the concept of social capital to propose a set of new influence measures for Twitter users (from the <a href="http://twinfluence.com/about.php" target=_blank>about</a> page).<br /><br /><strong>Reach:</strong> Reach is the number of followers a Twitterer has (first-order followers), plus all of their followers (second-order followers). Reach is a measurement of potential audience and listeners, a best estimate of the number of people that a given Twitterer could quickly get a message to.<br /><br /><strong>Velocity:</strong> Velocity merely averages the number of first- and second-order followers attracted per day since the Twitterer first established their account. The larger the number is, the faster that Twitterer has accumulated their influence. Of course, this number could jump significantly with the addition of a few high-profile followers.<br /><br /><strong>Social Capital:</strong> Tthe average first-order network of a Twitterer's followers. A high value indicates that most of that Twitterer's followers have a lot of followers themselves.<br /><br /><strong>Centralization:</strong> This is a measure of how much a Twitterer's influence (reach) is invested in a small number of followers. Centralization scores range from 0% (completely decentralized) to a theoretical 100% (completely dependent on one Twitterer). <br /><br />Efficiency: The more people you follow, the more time you have to spend reading and filtering tweets. Efficiency is a measure of how many people a Twitterer had to follow in order to build up their reach, as a percentage. <br /><br />A few examples to illustrate these new influence measures. <br /><br /><a href="http://twitter.com/BarackObama" target=_blank>BarackObama</a>, the most followed Twitter user <br /><img style="margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; " src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDaE9wpdGm1JoDY5hSlnOr7ecTIxGMMxhaAghIzYt6oe2kFqM4iEkqg8IsNDLbC28yqJJqFsfU7N3GszGCliysPN7VhcvqIHDBcaPnuNStXAhnlu0_ZHEneaJ1zppBQfbAGQatMMce664/s400/tf-twinfluence-barackobama.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256695907359250338" /><br /><br /><a href="http://twitter.com/SteveRubel" target=_blank>SteveRubel</a>, a digital marketer working at Edelman Digital <br /><img style="margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; " src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUcQ-IkYp6L12h3D80ulBMvRVdLz5jI99eO2_a65sFLZyEnrW0hzwSLCuM3OiaxYtwXWUWnmrHUhjBbyT8BTmyvDsgSfSwRrDtyw_M4kYErJdt9s-rHicBVUJsWBQxLPOWB2mXB6-fndM/s400/tf-twinfluence-steverubel.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256695909948331666" /><br /><br /><a href="http://twitter.com/TwitFacts" target=_blank>TwitFacts</a>, the Twitter user I created for this blog <br /><img style="margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; " src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhukhAYPcfj1PTri51slnDu-5eHlYpDlg9RUb4pjB2j-UMkLb4i0Jsu2Mw2PUALwKX-pcFIbatYWIqF7Y07Su5WMHk5rcxokleXUuJ26XYWYbg7hQbMIpWF-iYCUGeqiCPIKLKQyrG48m0/s400/tf-twinfluence-twitfacts.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256695912459781042" /><br /><br /><br />These new influence measures are interesting. They have however also their limitations. Influence should be measured for persons. Barack Obama uses various channels to illustrate his influence : speaches, debates, personal encounters, his website, his Twitter account, … On a lower scale everyone is active on different channels. <a href="http://steverubel.typepad.com/about.html" target=_blank>Steve Rubel</a> writes on <a href="http://www.micropersuasion.com/" target=_blank>his blog</a>, he writes columns, he speaks at various events, he works for various clients as a digital marketer at Edelman Digital. On addition to that, he has a stream of Twitter messages. Influence can be measured for each of these channels : number of blog posts linking to Steve Rubel's blog, number of readers and comments on his columns, number of speaking engagements, number of Edelman clients wanting to work with him, ... All these measures are only capable of capturing a tiny aspect of someone's influence. Influence should ideally be measured for a person, not for a specific channel. <a href="http://twinfluence.com/" target=_blank>Twinfluence</a> is however an interesting approach for a specific domain for which no influence measures were available.<br /><br />Twinfluence uses a clever way to deal with the Twitter API. All requests to the Twitter API are performed with the Twitter user credentials supplied by the user. After several queries, there is a big risk that a user will receive this error message : <br /><img style="margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; " src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-P5bnekBZd-RS0a_JU3UMW8s6L42LLym2M1S5QRnvZFXiIrxE1FB54oyQ2OSK8DQJzAaaBWN_hBct8XQuib6FNpwhZUfOG51ifa1P-uaVMlrCSuqUnVZmxQgAekpEb-ma8FmnOJydsaA/s400/tf-twinfluence-sorry.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256695912846685394" />Bruno Peetershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16135336038823520839noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002661741282466322.post-4021027430816948542008-10-12T20:45:00.003+02:002008-10-12T21:24:36.590+02:00Twitter Top 100 lists comparedIn a previous post (<a href="http://twitterfacts.blogspot.com/2008/10/top-twitter-users.html" target=_blank>Top Twitter Users</a>) I listed several sites where lists of top Twitter users can be found. I wanted to get an idea on the quality of these lists. Do they contain the same Twitter users ? Do they provide the same data ?<br /><br />I considered four top lists of Twitter users ranked by the number of followers. <br />1. <a href="http://twitdir.com/index.php?top=topfollowed&auto_update=on" target=_blank>Twitdir Top 100 followed</a> : number 1 on the list has 94937 followers, there are 6586 followers for number 100 <br />2. <a href="http://www.twittercounter.com/?inc=100" target=_blank>Twittercounter The top 100 most popular Twitter users</a> : number 1 on the list has 94600 followers, there are 7156 followers for number 100<br />3. <a href="http://twitterholic.com/top100/followers/" target=_blank>Twitterholic Top 100 based on Followers</a> : number 1 on the list has 94894 followers, there are 6562 followers for number 100<br />4. <a href="http://www.twittown.com/friends/topfollowers_1" target=_blank>Twittown Top 150 followers</a> (only first 100 considered) : number 1 on the list has 6941 followers, there are 986 followers for number 100<br /><br />The four lists combined count 179 different Twitter users. It is clear that the top 100 list from Twittown is outdated. Twitter user <a href="http://twitter.com/BarackObama" target=_blank>@BarackObama</a> has only 5441 followers according to Twittown, in reality this Twitter user has 94937 followers.<br /><br />Let's compare the three other list. The three lists combined cound 122 different Twitter users, see table below. <br /><br />Twitdir has the highest values for number of followers. Twittercounter has the lowest values. <br />* If Twitdir is compared to Twitterholic, the differences are up to 43 followers. <br />* If Twitdir is compared to Twittercounter the differences are up to 337 followers. <br />* If Twitterholic is compared to Twittercounter the differences are up to 294 followers. <br /><br />It looks like that <a href="http://twitdir.com/index.php?top=topfollowed&auto_update=on" target=_blank>Twitdir Top 100 followed</a> has the most actual data, although some Twitter users are missing. On the other hand Twitdir is the least user friendly. The top 100 is presented in 10 parts, each consisting of 10 Twitter users. Furthermore it takes an awful lot of time to load the 10 pages. If you want a quick overview of all top 100 Twitter users, I would recommend the <a href="http://twitterholic.com/top100/followers/" target=_blank>Twitterholic Top 100</a>. <br /><br /><table><tr><td><strong>TwitterUser</strong></td><td style='text-align:center'><strong>Twitdir top 100</strong></td><td style='text-align:center'><strong>Twitterholic top 100</strong></td><td style='text-align:center'>Twittercounter top 100</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/BarackObama" target="_blank">BarackObama</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>94937</td><td style='text-align:center'>94894</td><td style='text-align:center'>94600</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/kevinrose" target="_blank">kevinrose</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>66341</td><td style='text-align:center'>--</td><td style='text-align:center'>66251</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/leolaporte" target="_blank">leolaporte</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>57771</td><td style='text-align:center'>57762</td><td style='text-align:center'>57703</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/cnnbrk" target="_blank">cnnbrk</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>43880</td><td style='text-align:center'>43857</td><td style='text-align:center'>43628</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/alexalbrecht" target="_blank">alexalbrecht</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>38623</td><td style='text-align:center'>38618</td><td style='text-align:center'>38595</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/MarsPhoenix" target="_blank">MarsPhoenix</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>--</td><td style='text-align:center'>36237</td><td style='text-align:center'>36182</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/JasonCalacanis" target="_blank">JasonCalacanis</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>36148</td><td style='text-align:center'>36130</td><td style='text-align:center'>36083</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/Scobleizer" target="_blank">Scobleizer</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>35605</td><td style='text-align:center'>35590</td><td style='text-align:center'>35473</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/Veronica" target="_blank">Veronica</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>33393</td><td style='text-align:center'>33382</td><td style='text-align:center'>33333</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/twitter" target="_blank">twitter</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>--</td><td style='text-align:center'>--</td><td style='text-align:center'>31820</td></tr><tr><td><strong>TwitterUser</strong></td><td style='text-align:center'><strong>Twitdir top 100</strong></td><td style='text-align:center'><strong>Twitterholic top 100</strong></td><td style='text-align:center'>Twittercounter top 100</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/THErealDVORAK" target="_blank">THErealDVORAK</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>31476</td><td style='text-align:center'>31471</td><td style='text-align:center'>31399</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/macrumors" target="_blank">macrumors</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>31376</td><td style='text-align:center'>31375</td><td style='text-align:center'>31353</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/hotdogsladies" target="_blank">hotdogsladies</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>27617</td><td style='text-align:center'>27614</td><td style='text-align:center'>27577</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/TechCrunch" target="_blank">TechCrunch</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>26722</td><td style='text-align:center'>26705</td><td style='text-align:center'>26679</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/ijustine" target="_blank">ijustine</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>23679</td><td style='text-align:center'>23675</td><td style='text-align:center'>23636</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/ricksanchezcnn" target="_blank">ricksanchezcnn</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>23176</td><td style='text-align:center'>23172</td><td style='text-align:center'>23152</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/twittervision" target="_blank">twittervision</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>22982</td><td style='text-align:center'>--</td><td style='text-align:center'>22915</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/guykawasaki" target="_blank">guykawasaki</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>21087</td><td style='text-align:center'>21084</td><td style='text-align:center'>21061</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/ev" target="_blank">ev</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>19692</td><td style='text-align:center'>19683</td><td style='text-align:center'>19635</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/CaliLewis" target="_blank">CaliLewis</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>19661</td><td style='text-align:center'>19656</td><td style='text-align:center'>19647</td></tr><tr><td><strong>TwitterUser</strong></td><td style='text-align:center'><strong>Twitdir top 100</strong></td><td style='text-align:center'><strong>Twitterholic top 100</strong></td><td style='text-align:center'>Twittercounter top 100</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/Twitterrific" target="_blank">Twitterrific</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>19357</td><td style='text-align:center'>19344</td><td style='text-align:center'>19333</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/rtm" target="_blank">rtm</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>19287</td><td style='text-align:center'>--</td><td style='text-align:center'>19241</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/StephenColbert" target="_blank">StephenColbert</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>18888</td><td style='text-align:center'>18881</td><td style='text-align:center'>18692</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/chrispirillo" target="_blank">chrispirillo</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>18797</td><td style='text-align:center'>18790</td><td style='text-align:center'>18770</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/wilw" target="_blank">wilw</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>18769</td><td style='text-align:center'>18760</td><td style='text-align:center'>18740</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/patricknorton" target="_blank">patricknorton</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>18365</td><td style='text-align:center'>18365</td><td style='text-align:center'>18345</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/biz" target="_blank">biz</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>18148</td><td style='text-align:center'>18144</td><td style='text-align:center'>18076</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/013" target="_blank">013</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>--</td><td style='text-align:center'>--</td><td style='text-align:center'>18134</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/twitlive" target="_blank">twitlive</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>--</td><td style='text-align:center'>17465</td><td style='text-align:center'>17460</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/dooce" target="_blank">dooce</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>17280</td><td style='text-align:center'>17277</td><td style='text-align:center'>17077</td></tr><tr><td><strong>TwitterUser</strong></td><td style='text-align:center'><strong>Twitdir top 100</strong></td><td style='text-align:center'><strong>Twitterholic top 100</strong></td><td style='text-align:center'>Twittercounter top 100</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/laughingsquid" target="_blank">laughingsquid</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>16797</td><td style='text-align:center'>16785</td><td style='text-align:center'>16762</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/chrisbrogan" target="_blank">chrisbrogan</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>16358</td><td style='text-align:center'>16343</td><td style='text-align:center'>16322</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/garyvee" target="_blank">garyvee</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>16356</td><td style='text-align:center'>16339</td><td style='text-align:center'>16267</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/bloggersblog" target="_blank">bloggersblog</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>15901</td><td style='text-align:center'>15901</td><td style='text-align:center'>15889</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/ambermacarthur" target="_blank">ambermacarthur</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>15427</td><td style='text-align:center'>15423</td><td style='text-align:center'>15419</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/darthvader" target="_blank">darthvader</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>14864</td><td style='text-align:center'>14852</td><td style='text-align:center'>14830</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/woot" target="_blank">woot</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>14636</td><td style='text-align:center'>14627</td><td style='text-align:center'>14588</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/gruber" target="_blank">gruber</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>14403</td><td style='text-align:center'>14398</td><td style='text-align:center'>14378</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/hashtags" target="_blank">hashtags</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>--</td><td style='text-align:center'>--</td><td style='text-align:center'>14220</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/zappos" target="_blank">zappos</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>14088</td><td style='text-align:center'>14080</td><td style='text-align:center'>13983</td></tr><tr><td><strong>TwitterUser</strong></td><td style='text-align:center'><strong>Twitdir top 100</strong></td><td style='text-align:center'><strong>Twitterholic top 100</strong></td><td style='text-align:center'>Twittercounter top 100</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/mashable" target="_blank">mashable</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>13393</td><td style='text-align:center'>13382</td><td style='text-align:center'>13356</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/jowyang" target="_blank">jowyang</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>13074</td><td style='text-align:center'>13068</td><td style='text-align:center'>13044</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/NotHenryRollins" target="_blank">NotHenryRollins</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>12924</td><td style='text-align:center'>--</td><td style='text-align:center'>--</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/TwitPic" target="_blank">TwitPic</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>12781</td><td style='text-align:center'>12776</td><td style='text-align:center'>12747</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/feliciaday" target="_blank">feliciaday</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>12540</td><td style='text-align:center'>12534</td><td style='text-align:center'>12441</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/zefrank" target="_blank">zefrank</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>--</td><td style='text-align:center'>12360</td><td style='text-align:center'>12332</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/davewiner" target="_blank">davewiner</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>11962</td><td style='text-align:center'>11959</td><td style='text-align:center'>11947</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/hodgman" target="_blank">hodgman</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>11846</td><td style='text-align:center'>11842</td><td style='text-align:center'>11764</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/dlprager" target="_blank">dlprager</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>--</td><td style='text-align:center'>11815</td><td style='text-align:center'>11806</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/drhorrible" target="_blank">drhorrible</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>--</td><td style='text-align:center'>11698</td><td style='text-align:center'>11641</td></tr><tr><td><strong>TwitterUser</strong></td><td style='text-align:center'><strong>Twitdir top 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href="http://twitter.com/Larry" target="_blank">Larry</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>--</td><td style='text-align:center'>10843</td><td style='text-align:center'>--</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/newmediajim" target="_blank">newmediajim</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>10820</td><td style='text-align:center'>10816</td><td style='text-align:center'>10785</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/timoreilly" target="_blank">timoreilly</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>10800</td><td style='text-align:center'>10792</td><td style='text-align:center'>10714</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/DannyTRS" target="_blank">DannyTRS</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>10755</td><td style='text-align:center'>10755</td><td style='text-align:center'>10748</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/Ed" target="_blank">Ed</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>10676</td><td style='text-align:center'>--</td><td style='text-align:center'>--</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/Ed_Dale" target="_blank">Ed_Dale</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>--</td><td style='text-align:center'>10673</td><td style='text-align:center'>10646</td></tr><tr><td><strong>TwitterUser</strong></td><td style='text-align:center'><strong>Twitdir top 100</strong></td><td style='text-align:center'><strong>Twitterholic top 100</strong></td><td style='text-align:center'>Twittercounter top 100</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/WilHarris" target="_blank">WilHarris</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>10641</td><td style='text-align:center'>10640</td><td style='text-align:center'>10631</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/wordpress" target="_blank">wordpress</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>10625</td><td style='text-align:center'>10617</td><td style='text-align:center'>10545</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/jeffcannata" target="_blank">jeffcannata</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>10508</td><td style='text-align:center'>10507</td><td style='text-align:center'>10499</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/UstreamTV" target="_blank">UstreamTV</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>10455</td><td style='text-align:center'>10440</td><td style='text-align:center'>10433</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/Ihnatko" target="_blank">Ihnatko</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>10336</td><td style='text-align:center'>--</td><td style='text-align:center'>10332</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/skydiver" target="_blank">skydiver</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>10308</td><td style='text-align:center'>10300</td><td style='text-align:center'>10265</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/mollywood" target="_blank">mollywood</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>10267</td><td style='text-align:center'>10265</td><td style='text-align:center'>10260</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/twitter_status" target="_blank">twitter_status</a></td><td 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href="http://twitter.com/SteveJobs" target="_blank">SteveJobs</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>9677</td><td style='text-align:center'>--</td><td style='text-align:center'>9639</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/macworld" target="_blank">macworld</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>9639</td><td style='text-align:center'>9638</td><td style='text-align:center'>9603</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/jkottke" target="_blank">jkottke</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>9612</td><td style='text-align:center'>9607</td><td style='text-align:center'>9592</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/TUAW" target="_blank">TUAW</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>9500</td><td style='text-align:center'>9495</td><td style='text-align:center'>9482</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/steverubel" target="_blank">steverubel</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>9428</td><td style='text-align:center'>9424</td><td style='text-align:center'>9418</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/technorati" target="_blank">technorati</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>9374</td><td style='text-align:center'>9369</td><td style='text-align:center'>9330</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/brianshaler" target="_blank">brianshaler</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>9333</td><td style='text-align:center'>9332</td><td style='text-align:center'>9331</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/om" target="_blank">om</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>--</td><td style='text-align:center'>9314</td><td style='text-align:center'>9292</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/xenijardin" target="_blank">xenijardin</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>9116</td><td style='text-align:center'>9112</td><td style='text-align:center'>9100</td></tr><tr><td><strong>TwitterUser</strong></td><td style='text-align:center'><strong>Twitdir top 100</strong></td><td style='text-align:center'><strong>Twitterholic top 100</strong></td><td style='text-align:center'>Twittercounter top 100</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/nytimes" target="_blank">nytimes</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>8783</td><td style='text-align:center'>8783</td><td style='text-align:center'>8759</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/s" target="_blank">s</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>--</td><td style='text-align:center'>--</td><td style='text-align:center'>8711</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/osen" target="_blank">osen</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>--</td><td style='text-align:center'>--</td><td style='text-align:center'>8632</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/SethGodin" target="_blank">SethGodin</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>8623</td><td style='text-align:center'>--</td><td style='text-align:center'>--</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/revision3" target="_blank">revision3</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>--</td><td style='text-align:center'>8555</td><td style='text-align:center'>8535</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/cnn" target="_blank">cnn</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>8426</td><td style='text-align:center'>8424</td><td style='text-align:center'>8410</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/warrenellis" target="_blank">warrenellis</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>8298</td><td style='text-align:center'>8293</td><td style='text-align:center'>8263</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/gapingvoid" target="_blank">gapingvoid</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>8268</td><td style='text-align:center'>--</td><td style='text-align:center'>8263</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/missrogue" target="_blank">missrogue</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>8144</td><td style='text-align:center'>8141</td><td style='text-align:center'>8129</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/factoryjoe" target="_blank">factoryjoe</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>8060</td><td 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target="_blank">simplebits</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>7780</td><td style='text-align:center'>7775</td><td style='text-align:center'>7767</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/sarahlane" target="_blank">sarahlane</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>7670</td><td style='text-align:center'>7663</td><td style='text-align:center'>7638</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/Maggie" target="_blank">Maggie</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>7553</td><td style='text-align:center'>7554</td><td style='text-align:center'>7530</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/acedtect" target="_blank">acedtect</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>7529</td><td style='text-align:center'>7527</td><td style='text-align:center'>7523</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/BreakingNewsOn" target="_blank">BreakingNewsOn</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>7475</td><td style='text-align:center'>7474</td><td style='text-align:center'>7462</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/DanRaine" target="_blank">DanRaine</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>7349</td><td style='text-align:center'>7349</td><td style='text-align:center'>7338</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/Damiano" target="_blank">Damiano</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>7339</td><td style='text-align:center'>7332</td><td style='text-align:center'>7330</td></tr><tr><td><strong>TwitterUser</strong></td><td style='text-align:center'><strong>Twitdir top 100</strong></td><td style='text-align:center'><strong>Twitterholic top 100</strong></td><td style='text-align:center'>Twittercounter top 100</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/Dizzed" target="_blank">Dizzed</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>7269</td><td style='text-align:center'>--</td><td style='text-align:center'>--</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/jeffpulver" target="_blank">jeffpulver</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>7249</td><td style='text-align:center'>7246</td><td style='text-align:center'>7239</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/springnet" target="_blank">springnet</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>7200</td><td style='text-align:center'>7200</td><td style='text-align:center'>7197</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/PhillyD" target="_blank">PhillyD</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>--</td><td style='text-align:center'>7195</td><td style='text-align:center'>--</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/buckhollywood" target="_blank">buckhollywood</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>7177</td><td style='text-align:center'>7179</td><td style='text-align:center'>7161</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/CNETNews" target="_blank">CNETNews</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>7165</td><td style='text-align:center'>7162</td><td style='text-align:center'>7156</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/waynesutton" target="_blank">waynesutton</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>7147</td><td style='text-align:center'>7144</td><td style='text-align:center'>--</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/StephenTColbert" target="_blank">StephenTColbert</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>7026</td><td style='text-align:center'>7028</td><td style='text-align:center'>--</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/timer" target="_blank">timer</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>7010</td><td style='text-align:center'>--</td><td style='text-align:center'>--</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/mybloglog" target="_blank">mybloglog</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>7004</td><td style='text-align:center'>--</td><td style='text-align:center'>--</td></tr><tr><td><strong>TwitterUser</strong></td><td style='text-align:center'><strong>Twitdir top 100</strong></td><td style='text-align:center'><strong>Twitterholic top 100</strong></td><td style='text-align:center'>Twittercounter top 100</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/fredwilson" target="_blank">fredwilson</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>6987</td><td style='text-align:center'>6983</td><td style='text-align:center'>--</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/lonelysandwich" target="_blank">lonelysandwich</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>--</td><td style='text-align:center'>6927</td><td style='text-align:center'>--</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/seesmic" target="_blank">seesmic</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>6795</td><td style='text-align:center'>--</td><td style='text-align:center'>--</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/Pistachio" target="_blank">Pistachio</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>6792</td><td style='text-align:center'>6787</td><td style='text-align:center'>--</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/Zadi" target="_blank">Zadi</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>6746</td><td style='text-align:center'>6733</td><td style='text-align:center'>--</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/mozillafirefox" target="_blank">mozillafirefox</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>--</td><td style='text-align:center'>6745</td><td style='text-align:center'>--</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/Borat" target="_blank">Borat</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>--</td><td style='text-align:center'>6674</td><td style='text-align:center'>--</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/adamcurry" target="_blank">adamcurry</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>6621</td><td style='text-align:center'>6618</td><td style='text-align:center'>--</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/Mickipedia" target="_blank">Mickipedia</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>6586</td><td style='text-align:center'>6582</td><td style='text-align:center'>--</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/tferriss" target="_blank">tferriss</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>--</td><td style='text-align:center'>6582</td><td style='text-align:center'>--</td></tr><tr><td><strong>TwitterUser</strong></td><td style='text-align:center'><strong>Twitdir top 100</strong></td><td style='text-align:center'><strong>Twitterholic top 100</strong></td><td style='text-align:center'>Twittercounter top 100</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/ryanblock" target="_blank">ryanblock</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>--</td><td style='text-align:center'>6568</td><td style='text-align:center'>--</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://twitter.com/briansolis" target="_blank">briansolis</a></td><td style='text-align:center'>--</td><td style='text-align:center'>6562</td><td style='text-align:center'>--</td></tr></table><br />These figures presented above date from Friday October 10, 2008.Bruno Peetershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16135336038823520839noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002661741282466322.post-78415171249653609152008-10-10T22:30:00.000+02:002008-10-10T22:38:17.948+02:00Top Twitter UsersFor those who are interested in how to find top Twitter users, I have created a collection of links to top lists of Twitter users according to several criteria.<br /><br />In the first place there are global rankings.<br /><br /><strong>1. <a href="http://twitterholic.com/" target=_blank>Twitterholic</a></strong><br /><img style="margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; " src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE23CW1Czf2OXa35ycBZsZ0LxxWWa-6NmPqeCKNilEw4uGupFSe6tMMGHEjCBShxH67M8A09IKa12GRCn5CY3r6bYp9S_W6VfOa60gykY_-jRJrR7hsfPocimAUAxqxN799Jfi-wjLkYU/s400/tf-top-twitterholic.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5255622272232783986" /><br />Twitterholic.com offers Top 100 lists based on <a href="http://twitterholic.com/top100/followers/" target=_blank>Followers</a>, <a href="http://twitterholic.com/top100/friends/" target=_blank>Friends</a> and <a href="http://twitterholic.com/top100/updates/" target=_blank>Updates</a>.<br /><br /><strong>2. <a href="http://twitdir.com/" target=_blank>Twitdir</a></strong><br /><img style="margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ2ePt_LWvYG8BDZnMqIF9QYKGu1zoHFaCSLsUQeKFixxXrSgYkQ7PZNc5GSUQrw9HyQwm_PqPmlPOgdPmMYkmJoP606FrnbgFQFxyui7PCeRNL-MagDqeQiOPf95lyF-vCOf0kaiDTU4/s400/tf-top-twitdir.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5255622276767656866" /><br />Twitdir presents <a href="http://twitdir.com/index.php?top=topfollowed" target=_blank>Top 100 followed</a>, <a href="http://twitdir.com/index.php?top=topupdaters" target=_blank>Top 100 updaters</a>, <a href="http://twitdir.com/index.php?top=topfavouriters" target=_blank>Top 100 favouriters</a> and <a href="http://twitdir.com/index.php?top=topfollowers" target=_blank>Top 100 followers</a> lists.<br /><br /><strong>3. <a href="http://www.twittercounter.com/" target=_blank>Twittercounter</a></strong><br /><img style="margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; " src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj89LVhRWuJd41kURwF32q1woT3DoZqqxylq3TlDvms49H_7Lybz2_6JvI8SV68mgZf9LGkkGQ156RWsW2-HmKxzHeUwMxA035YhfU-xNs9uja2PAfuJpob7dNq4Pw2to5NEH8qh2xrHOI/s400/tf-top-twittercounter.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5255622275881130690" /><br />Twittercounter has a list called <a href="http://www.twittercounter.com/?inc=100" target=_blank>The top 100 most popular Twitter users</a>.<br /><br /><strong>4. <a href="http://www.twittown.com/" target=_blank>Twittown</a></strong><br /><img style="margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEXpLUAa1dV1AbkZNIrh6XAOU8GgBhSkGNxqNXN52dwfkprtpSWDCzh16pcqqQ46bCGt3munQrthNT03lEB7rGKUZV99Xj4CP8y3Ezd86Pb7C2-gv2nLsmWlRFUEHYk-PZdrTc8ZtlQc4/s400/tf-top-twittown.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5255622278466231634" /><br />Twittown, the unofficial Twitter community, offers <a href="http://www.twittown.com/friends/topfollowers_1" target=_blank>Top 150 followers</a>, <a href="http://www.twittown.com/friends/topposts_1" target=_blank>Top 150 updates</a> and <a href="http://www.twittown.com/friends/topfriends_1" target=_blank>Top 150 following</a> lists.<br /><br /><strong>5. <a href="http://twitter.grader.com/" target=_blank>Twitter Grader</a></strong><br /><img style="margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDCleiF_e2rmEkRPtfgpCY6wBQJx2gXnHi6PdGV4t6_NO43PKOeNTcgGJcBZQ5ZXVqrCcPznaxJq0gVZedmg7pFmdBHrCF8OynzXc6NZPSnaxykZUSpPsCo6sL1_0t4ivzA9EwZH76AlE/s400/tf-top-twittergrader.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5255622278451066946" /><br />Twitter Grader gives you a grade based on the power of your Twitter profile. It also offers the list with the <a href="http://twitter.grader.com/topusers" target=_blank>highest ranked Twitter users</a>.<br /><br /><strong>6. <a href="http://twitterposter.com/" target=_blank>Twitterposter</a></strong><br /><img style="margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjECMEXtC1JE0Lky5Km7Vj48QysklShldaNUaoDLKxyuernzgZDz9_sXCLnUmvc4yAQW4k316gj5_uSw0Nh83Mh-1lD5dyVhovbf3CH6q22jD0fcvU6WuDMe3djpRbQQe43iJUKWZ0X2mY/s400/tf-top-twitterposter.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5255621824368480082" /><br />TwitterPoster is a visual application based on Twitter API. It provides a visual representation of the degree of influence of the Twitter users. It does not present a top list as such, but only top Twitter users are shown.<br /><br /><br />There are also specialized rankings of Twitter users.<br /><br /><strong>7. <a href="http://www.twitstat.com/cgi-bin/view.pl" target=_blank>Twitstat</a></strong><br /><img style="margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrCwY72sW8QF4LGexeRfIWOSQ3g5RBQDuSZSqQnm7WWizJByF4eXsB1AreEhmcPlxfR_u4N6S7nh8ge7tnw9WTsQAuImCTaC_hiHudsb3Ykl4DQoDGfZ-vsphZ8YuilocDcV0c1r4LIcg/s400/tf-top-twitstat.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5255621827708259586" /><br />Twitstats offers various lists of Twitter users followed by <a href="httP://twitter.com/twitstat" target=_blank>@twitstat</a> : Top 10 today, yesterday, most engaging, most social, happy people, funny people, angry people, tired people, most replies, perfect tweets.<br /><br /><strong>8. Top analyst twitterers / analyst twitter index</strong> <br /><img style="margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVMgWUatEGAV5QuA0PtqJuBlh5pW19pn2AE2iFnClNmLzP5Aj3XJiPVY9hWkbfB_Q23KmIKAr6lB2HQX0kGxd4v8WxKCqf7VBlMFDsBQT7CE9EpF9G6tU_UYG5wJCu9DBLGB45DiAczA4/s400/tf-top-technobabble.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5255621830771104482" /><br />On the <a href="http://technobabble2dot0.wordpress.com/" target=_blank>Technobabble blog</a>, a post in July presented a <a href="http://technobabble2dot0.wordpress.com/2008/07/30/top-analyst-twitterers-analyst-twitter-index/" target=_blank>ranking of analysts</a>.<br /><br /><strong>9. Newspapers that Twitter</strong> <br /><img style="margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0sVIRU7sjpa8V4EkjYYvXk-ZR6s6-1c_FnmImbXjuVGQvZU0vIPGGBWetxcqlyQAAmuM4QHiD1wZRYv3i6yeIjMOGRQDQVXDsucKyczYH4Jf4roAIXe3fjKNPV7z4Zonju5mo50fQn6Y/s400/tf-top-newspapers.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5255621829647258050" /><br />Rankings of American newspapers offering Twitter feeds can be found on the <a href="http://graphicdesignr.net/blog/" target=_blank>graphicdesigner blog</a>. There is a <a href="http://graphicdesignr.net/blog/2008/08/03/newspapers-that-twitter-july-numbers/" target=_blank>July ranking</a> and an <a href="http://graphicdesignr.net/blog/2008/09/03/newspapers-that-twitter-august-numbers/" target=_blank>August ranking</a>.<br /><br /><strong>10. Unofficial 2008 Top 50 Tweeples </strong><br /><img style="margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwrw99gB7OGrNrBpIlMC0u8ab9C4Qfeyt-d-dy9vX-XTlz5Ix7ACSM_Sy8zAwmSA7SvEXxBSxCOAMLrrYOF9sbJJFxwZBAy2N95DiAyZBhsrt4cJ4q8YMF-Bz15mGR7YjU5_zWwDiyvwE/s400/tf-top-tweeples.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5255621831260134482" /><br />Finally you can always submit your own Twitter account for the <a href="http://prsarahevans.com/2008/10/08/just-announced-unofficial-2008-top-50-tweeples-to-follow/" target=_blank>Unofficial 2008 Top 50 Tweeples list</a>.Bruno Peetershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16135336038823520839noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002661741282466322.post-67167207581816522472008-09-21T18:12:00.002+02:002008-09-21T18:16:17.282+02:003 million Twitter usersOn June 29, 2008 I wrote <a href="http://twitterfacts.blogspot.com/2008/06/2-million-twitter-users.html" target=_blank>on this blog</a> that Twitter reached 2 million users - according to <a href="http://twitdir.com/" target=_blank>Twitdir</a>. <a href="http://twitter.com/" target=_blank>Twitter</a> has passed another milestone a few days ago, 3 million users. As Twitdir only "knows" Twitter users with a public profile, the actual number of Twitter users is higher, as discussed in <a href="http://blog.metaroll.com/2008/09/18/35-45-mio-twitter-users-worldwide/" target=_blank>this blogpost</a>.<br /><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE7VUNWZO7hl6C6ZR84lA0iFAoXWIfQ7k4hrwGFA8lqrlqi1P34EwdxRqKZsaAW3J-B600q3clT3IUjJSpj-_BCrZkV8MOi6DHasf8cvhyIbkpUyJRpjN3Lt-7CjpzZmV7YGQFsT7D89E/s400/tf-twidir200809221.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248508499278036434" /><br />The growth of Twitter users follows an exponential curve - at least until now. If the same trend continues, 4 million will be reached around mid November. Around Christmas the 5 million mark will be reached. 6 million will be reached around mid January 2009 and 7 million around Mid February. Whatever the trend will be, I will continue to monitor this trend.Bruno Peetershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16135336038823520839noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002661741282466322.post-20685239505289089832008-09-12T20:52:00.002+02:002008-09-12T20:57:10.162+02:00A few figuresIt has been a while since the previous post on this blog. So let's restart with a few figures. <br /><br /><strong>2 months, 2 weeks and 5 days</strong> <br />Time elapsed since the <a href="http://twitterfacts.blogspot.com/2008/06/2-million-twitter-users.html" target=_blank>previous post</a> on this blog<br /><br /><strong>24</strong> <br />Number of full time employees at Twitter HQ, mentioned in <a href="http://blog.twitter.com/2008/09/trimming-sails.html" target=_blank>post</a> on Twitter blog<br /><br /><strong>63</strong> <br />Percentage of male Twitterers, mentioned in <a href="http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1834131,00.html" target=_blank>Time</a><br /><br /><strong>99.88</strong> <br />Availability of Twitter in August 2008 <a href="http://www.pingdom.com/reports/vb1395a6sww3/month/?name=twitter.com%2Fhome&month=8&year=2008" target=_blank>according to Pingdom</a><br /><br /><strong>796,000</strong> <br />Number of Twitter users who have send a message since December 1st, 2007 (in a <a href="http://twitterfacts.blogspot.com/2008/06/2-million-twitter-users.html?showComment=1221121800000#c5745939877530228036" target=_blank>comment </a> on previous post on this blog)<br /><br /><strong>1,000,000</strong> <br />Number of Twurls already processed by <a href="http://tweetburner.com/blog/2008/08/1_million_twurls_wow/" target=_blank>Tweetburner</a> (shortened URLs)<br /><br /><strong>2,927,894</strong> <br />Number of Twitter users currently known to <a href="http://twitdir.com" target=_blank>Twitdir</a> <br /><br /><strong>100 million</strong> <br />Registered users of Facebook, reported by <a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_hits_100_million_user.php" target=_blank>ReadWriteWeb</a>Bruno Peetershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16135336038823520839noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002661741282466322.post-62496635176832775432008-06-29T22:34:00.003+02:002008-06-29T22:43:17.021+02:002 million Twitter usersOn January 6, 2008 I <a href="http://twitterfacts.blogspot.com/2008/01/number-of-twitter-users.html" target=_blank>predicted</a> that Twitter would reach 1 million users before April 1, 2008. The source for the number of Twitter users was (and still is) <a href="http://twitdir.com/" target=_blank>Twitdir</a>. Twitdir <a href="http://twitterfacts.blogspot.com/2008/04/1-million-twitter-users-according-to.html" target=_blank>finally reported</a> 1 million Twitter users by the end of April. Twitdir announced that their was a flaw in their algorithm to count Twitter users, so the algorithm was changed. The backlog of Twitter users to be detected was caught up several weeks later. Yesterday evening I noticed that Twitdir reported just below 2 million Twitter users. Today the number reported exceeded 2 million.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4xB2TD4prBEUTPMIcFUihcTYA93IQkMztOHVMca1oXU0yf5Z4f_W8Jq2nYyYNEbora8Zg8QfnReZpk_u_B8DYCAvs-KBEvUW0PC1WK7yCwVnMlZ8wzWKm8i37zcUz6D_JAn9sr8cel0I/s1600-h/tf-twitdit-2million-before.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4xB2TD4prBEUTPMIcFUihcTYA93IQkMztOHVMca1oXU0yf5Z4f_W8Jq2nYyYNEbora8Zg8QfnReZpk_u_B8DYCAvs-KBEvUW0PC1WK7yCwVnMlZ8wzWKm8i37zcUz6D_JAn9sr8cel0I/s400/tf-twitdit-2million-before.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5217404987332969282" /></a><br /><br />The oldest Twitter accounts still active were created on March 21, 2006. It took Twitter over 550 days to get to 500,000 users (around the first half of October 2007). 150 days later (around mid March 2008), there were 1 million Twitter users. 50 days later (beginning of May 2008) there were already 1.5 million Twitter users. Another 50 days later Twitter had over 2 million Twitter users (end of June 2008). All these figures are based on the number of users reported by Twitdir.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUQXr3fXIDQ0VU0jMlZTud5vl013B9DySTR_Au7uTyXKBERXUuT56ZmqYI1F3kjF_A85FuJ1u0pwWiUWmYHHBywDpQq7UFAyrlAPkX8RmjoACnZkeL07B0DKDt8JNHEe1TjZrZ9SkxpD8/s1600-h/tf-twitdit-2million-graph.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUQXr3fXIDQ0VU0jMlZTud5vl013B9DySTR_Au7uTyXKBERXUuT56ZmqYI1F3kjF_A85FuJ1u0pwWiUWmYHHBywDpQq7UFAyrlAPkX8RmjoACnZkeL07B0DKDt8JNHEe1TjZrZ9SkxpD8/s400/tf-twitdit-2million-graph.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5217404993493501090" /></a><br /><br />The question of course is the reliability of the Twitdir figures. I performed a little test. Both Twitter and Twitdir offer the possibility to execute a location based search, returning both the number of Twitter users for a given location. I looked up the number of Twitter users reported by both sources for several locations.<br /><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtwf65Qk4qlhvqJBDLP4f9NwM831Y3pHzjCmYzE8fH290iWVOBix7EUPjQCiMB3BNHrY_AEq9z8_wSAE3tSJHDEBefxSz0f1LgbRQPUL7MWeqDNzc0JviB7xNw-YlwOjQ7KsnyNKFAodE/s400/tf-twitdit-2million-comparison.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5217406308541221330" /><br /><br />For the 9 search arguments shown above, the number of Twitter users found by Twitdir is 20% to 30% lower than the number found by Twitter itself. It is likely that the number of Twitter reported by Twitter is also an underestmation of the real number. It is possible that there could be at this moment already over 2.5 million Twitter users. Who is capable of providing more insight on this issue ?Bruno Peetershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16135336038823520839noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002661741282466322.post-48415707868812599182008-06-27T22:58:00.003+02:002008-06-27T23:04:41.499+02:00FailwhalesWith the arrival of Twitter, the English vocabulary has gained several new words, Twitter-speak. The <a href="http://twitter.pbwiki.com/Twitter+Glossary" target=_blank>Twitter Glossary at the Twitter Fan Wiki</a> is impressive.<br /><br />I just discovered a new Twitter related new concept, a <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=failwhale" target=_blank>failwhale</a>. I noticed that several Twitter users who strongly dislike the whale picture informing them that Twitter is not working as expected, changed their profile picture. Their current profile picture is now a failwahle.<br /><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikwg7UWmTQSGyhrQFcyToG5wMZgxRqEtv1V-D-kWM3e-T6DLAGrDy41HE2ZoG0tbEsvMExyfqp2cUXp26upp46w9tKSKe25kiJhJXR7BLwsAOlsvhUIIDC8toWQEMPfstY1pzhBf14mkk/s400/failwhale.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5216669799210553266" /><br />Some clever guys have already set up a <a href="http://twitter.com/failwhale" target=_blank>Twitter account</a> and a <a href="http://failwhale.com/" target=_blank>website</a>. And furthermore, at Zazzle you can buy <a href="http://www.zazzle.com/failwhale" target=_blank>failwhale related objects</a>. If Twitter is down again, Twitter users should consider sending out letters or postcards to their followers, each marked with a <a href="http://www.zazzle.com/fail_whale_snail_mail_postage-172237239004059808?gl=failwhale" target=_blank>failwhale stamp</a>.<br /><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAVx1GBbRrBRL3SWuERg_V8qMI_Sbw0IIdr2Ge3ORVEV9Gn50oUAzo4rbAiYYGx8BjsVpBFq01E4LjW8ItCtWaa18NwByibuhUhl3G2kzRqbwTfPYGGpekHomLjfHDCdVWIpL3aEGhVcY/s400/failwhale-stamp.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5216669805464941714" />Bruno Peetershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16135336038823520839noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002661741282466322.post-42058666352924673682008-06-26T17:23:00.002+02:002008-06-26T17:41:18.534+02:00First State of the Twitosphere in FranceOn this blog I already published several posts with a detailed analysis of the twitosphere in a specific country. From time to time people ask me to have a closer look at their country, e.g. France.<br /> <br />The first question in such an analysis is the number of Twitter users in France. Twitter locates <a href="http://twitter.com/tw/search/users?q=location%3Afrance" target=_blank>4371 Twitter users in France</a> (Twitter users who explicitely mention France in their location), Twitdir reports <a href="http://twitdir.com/index.php?search=france&where=l" target=_blank>3367 Twitter users</a>.<br /><br />Based on the location info in the Twitter profiles, I was able to find 6229 Twitter users in France, still active users. Persons who have closed their Twitter accounts are not included in this number. Because the number of Twitter users not mentioning a true location in their Twitter profile is estimated at around 50%, the actual number of Twitter users in France will probably exceed 6229. With a population of 64.473 million people (source : <a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/France" target=_blank>Wikipedia</a>), the Twitter user density for France is one Twitter account for every 10350 inhabitants. Other European countries have an higher Twitter density, e.g. in Norway there is a Twitter account for every 1350 inhabitants, in The Netherlands there is a Twitter account for every 2800 inhabitants.<br /><br /><strong>History of the Twitter accounts in France </strong><br />The graph below shows the history of the Twitter accounts from France. The graph is based on the date of the first message posted on each of the public Twitter accounts. Twitter users who haven't published any messages and Twitter users with a private profile (their messages are only visible for their approved followers) are not included in this graph.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggdEv8r5NKycp8zNkgqm4wUu73OGLk0nTUN3uY0bOA2a1aHsHyYPioSmKCPDjKRrlYNpw_KvAkfRD62jP69Y-P7s-rlibzK87yVyF2wqcEtn6N98t409cdUX0gVBXBIKkjWzlz-g83e8w/s1600-h/tf-france-history.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggdEv8r5NKycp8zNkgqm4wUu73OGLk0nTUN3uY0bOA2a1aHsHyYPioSmKCPDjKRrlYNpw_KvAkfRD62jP69Y-P7s-rlibzK87yVyF2wqcEtn6N98t409cdUX0gVBXBIKkjWzlz-g83e8w/s400/tf-france-history.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5216211605441369058" /></a><br /><strong>Oldest Twitter accounts from France</strong><br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/jdenoy>twitter.com/jdenoy</a> - Johan Denoyer - first message on 18/07/2006<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/nicoguyon>twitter.com/nicoguyon</a> - nicolas guyon - first message on 19/07/2006<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/danielito>twitter.com/danielito</a> - Daniel Gergès - first message on 12/09/2006<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/tewfiq>twitter.com/tewfiq</a> - tewfiq - first message on 27/09/2006<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/hakonlo>twitter.com/hakonlo</a> - Håkon Lorentzen - first message on 26/10/2006<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/i_randulo>twitter.com/i_randulo</a> - fake-randulo - first message on 27/10/2006<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/zelig>twitter.com/zelig</a> - Rafi Haladjian - first message on 5/11/2006<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/cnicules>twitter.com/cnicules</a> - ciprian - first message on 6/11/2006<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/ghotspot>twitter.com/ghotspot</a> - Guy - first message on 16/11/2006<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/MathieuCoste>twitter.com/MathieuCoste</a> - Mathieu - first message on 19/11/2006<br /><br /><strong>Private or public </strong><br />769 Twitter acounts from France or 12% have chosen to keep their updates only available to their friends.<br /><br /><strong>Number of following </strong><br />A Twitter user can choose to follow one or more other Twitter accounts, called "following". 997 Twitter accounts from France or 16% do not follow other Twitter users. An average Twitter account from France follows 29 Twitter accounts.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi17E71NHRtQqOgYTuajA-sJPV45oJ6w_nF2WeTGBr6e1KVGMv46ihLnjVGjQdP0ivC4ZsmCqUzOQEJYp1zxnHoGT6smixwkL7IBj8PpCSZOZmD6OWlne2LRSxWrum4FPlP-YRYOuVZrw0/s1600-h/tf-france-following.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi17E71NHRtQqOgYTuajA-sJPV45oJ6w_nF2WeTGBr6e1KVGMv46ihLnjVGjQdP0ivC4ZsmCqUzOQEJYp1zxnHoGT6smixwkL7IBj8PpCSZOZmD6OWlne2LRSxWrum4FPlP-YRYOuVZrw0/s400/tf-france-following.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5216211604011866418" /></a><br /><strong>Top 10 following</strong><br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/arnaudrobail>twitter.com/arnaudrobail</a> - rnud Robil - 7.379 following<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/jeanlucr>twitter.com/jeanlucr</a> - Jean-Luc Raymond - 6.313 following<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/stellafrederic>twitter.com/stellafrederic</a> - stellafrederic - 6.260 following<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/wallpapers>twitter.com/wallpapers</a> - Wallpapers Zone - 5.255 following<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/neo_igs_police>twitter.com/neo_igs_police</a> - neo_igs_police - 3.573 following<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/MMartin>twitter.com/MMartin</a> - Martin Menu - 1.842 following<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/HenryMichel>twitter.com/HenryMichel</a> - HenryMichel - 1.560 following<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/LucMandret>twitter.com/LucMandret</a> - Luc Mandret - 1.387 following<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/valerefagot>twitter.com/valerefagot</a> - valerefagot - 1.213 following<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/betapolitique>twitter.com/betapolitique</a> - betapolitique.fr - 1.131 following<br /><br /><strong>Number of followers </strong><br />A follower is someone who has indicated another Twitter account as following and receives all updates of that other Twitter account. 279 Twitter users from France or 4% have no Twitter followers at all, meaning that no one else on Twitter has indicated this account as following. The messages published by these Twitter users are only read by themselves (and by search engines). An average Twitter user from France has 32 followers.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxwqSga3eBoudHWOPFB5bTr-6YZwKFMYtoV7pqD2B2SGAXf9UxemuWMKuOMlbp8b9GreKRM3NhD2depVEI9vTnkX4C6waORZsfj2wfllDzJYPf_h41wyrXkb7r3CIH42GKuLIjw2T0i4k/s1600-h/tf-france-followers.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxwqSga3eBoudHWOPFB5bTr-6YZwKFMYtoV7pqD2B2SGAXf9UxemuWMKuOMlbp8b9GreKRM3NhD2depVEI9vTnkX4C6waORZsfj2wfllDzJYPf_h41wyrXkb7r3CIH42GKuLIjw2T0i4k/s400/tf-france-followers.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5216211608043391954" /></a><br /><strong>Top 10 followers</strong><br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/arnaudrobail>twitter.com/arnaudrobail</a> - rnud Robil - 2.204 followers<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/jeanlucr>twitter.com/jeanlucr</a> - Jean-Luc Raymond - 2.134 followers<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/pressecitron>twitter.com/pressecitron</a> - Eric - 1.688 followers<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/MMartin>twitter.com/MMartin</a> - Martin Menu - 1.319 followers<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/FredCavazza>twitter.com/FredCavazza</a> - Frédéric CAVAZZA - 1.293 followers<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/fubiz>twitter.com/fubiz</a> - Romain Colin - 1.061 followers<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/MonsieurDream>twitter.com/MonsieurDream</a> - Monsieur Dream - 1.035 followers<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/rodrigo1971>twitter.com/rodrigo1971</a> - Rodrigo SEPULVEDA - 1.034 followers<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/fuelmyblog>twitter.com/fuelmyblog</a> - Kevin Dixie - 909 followers<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/guim>twitter.com/guim</a> - GuiM - 887 followers<br /><br /><strong>Updates </strong><br />An update is the term refering to Twitter messages published by a Twitter users. These are also called tweets. The average number of updates for a Twitter users from France is 239. 296 Twitter users (or 5%) are still waiting for their first message to be published. Below you can find two top 10 lists, one with Twitter users where messages are published in an automated way, the second one with "real" Twitter users.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIa2a6FdNZS1P57kjF-CNH1cjN0aWSZHmvAI-mDBbFDG6YY3EYF9RaGNETIwwDEkQLNBabpAVBYO9E33JmED-YUdNakVafAymNzZ_0kbf6hcPLyi6DvKEyoWNVKwhkd_UbAi4MtXs8Zdc/s1600-h/tf-france-updates.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIa2a6FdNZS1P57kjF-CNH1cjN0aWSZHmvAI-mDBbFDG6YY3EYF9RaGNETIwwDEkQLNBabpAVBYO9E33JmED-YUdNakVafAymNzZ_0kbf6hcPLyi6DvKEyoWNVKwhkd_UbAi4MtXs8Zdc/s400/tf-france-updates.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5216211613754720402" /></a><br /><strong>Top 10 updates from "real" Twitter users</strong><br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/Ravana>twitter.com/Ravana</a> - Ravana - 12.603 updates<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/strangeblackh>twitter.com/strangeblackh</a> - strangeblackhole - 12.163 updates<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/Bechamel>twitter.com/Bechamel</a> - Jibé - 11.923 updates<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/Charles_Liebert>twitter.com/Charles_Liebert</a> - Charles Liebert - 9.901 updates<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/princesszeni>twitter.com/princesszeni</a> - ? zeni - 8.568 updates<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/dimic>twitter.com/dimic</a> - Dimic - 7.747 updates<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/SimonRobic>twitter.com/SimonRobic</a> - Simon Robic - 7.649 updates<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/jegoun>twitter.com/jegoun</a> - jegoun - 7.165 updates<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/seestribe>twitter.com/seestribe</a> - Jonathan Bonzy - 7.009 updates<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/stagueve>twitter.com/stagueve</a> - stagueve - 6.965 updates<br /><br /><strong>Top 10 updates from non human Twitter accounts</strong><br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/lejddfr>twitter.com/lejddfr</a> - lejddfr - 101.639 updates<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/lci>twitter.com/lci</a> - La Chaine Info - 25.305 updates<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/fonzz>twitter.com/fonzz</a> - fonZz - 23.069 updates<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/xanapa>twitter.com/xanapa</a> - xanapa - 15.698 updates<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/FRANCE24>twitter.com/FRANCE24</a> - france24 - 11.831 updates<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/eddymitchum>twitter.com/eddymitchum</a> - Eddy Mitchum - 11.033 updates<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/funkastik>twitter.com/funkastik</a> - funkastik - 8.242 updates<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/pomemail>twitter.com/pomemail</a> - pomemail - 7.833 updates<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/le_figaro>twitter.com/le_figaro</a> - le_figaro - 6.755 updates<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/LeMondeWorld>twitter.com/LeMondeWorld</a> - Le Monde - World - 6.421 updates<br /><br /><strong>Tweet frequency </strong><br />The tweet frequency is het average number of Twitter messages published on a unit of time, calculcated from the first message published. Twitter accounts created in the last 30 days and Twitter accounts without a Twitter message in the last 30 days were not taken into account. <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOW62ODiuv7liXqcU1BczOQNzr5k8nZ-wNfSjVZT-3f5D9pgIQf8iuu4Fof7YfYzMygHYf_PfIbqUyWzIDax35MHVTpR7KLskQ860NvtF60bkxF80h1YNkaNn3X2OsTHp6UiByK0d8M2E/s1600-h/tf-france-tweetfrequency.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOW62ODiuv7liXqcU1BczOQNzr5k8nZ-wNfSjVZT-3f5D9pgIQf8iuu4Fof7YfYzMygHYf_PfIbqUyWzIDax35MHVTpR7KLskQ860NvtF60bkxF80h1YNkaNn3X2OsTHp6UiByK0d8M2E/s400/tf-france-tweetfrequency.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5216211615374868386" /></a><br /><strong>Top 10 tweet frequency real Twitter users</strong><br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/strangeblackh>twitter.com/strangeblackh</a> - strangeblackhole - 52,20 tweets/day<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/Ravana>twitter.com/Ravana</a> - Ravana - 30,59 tweets/day<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/dimic>twitter.com/dimic</a> - Dimic - 26,00 tweets/day<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/rade>twitter.com/rade</a> - radeville - 23,73 tweets/day<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/waden>twitter.com/waden</a> - Thomas Guillot - 23,55 tweets/day<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/madd0>twitter.com/madd0</a> - Mauricio DIAZ ORLICH - 22,61 tweets/day<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/marcvasseur>twitter.com/marcvasseur</a> - marcvasseur - 22,07 tweets/day<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/cpafo>twitter.com/cpafo</a> - Christopher Rousseau - 20,26 tweets/day<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/geoffreydorne>twitter.com/geoffreydorne</a> - Geoffrey Dorne - 18,55 tweets/day<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/UlrichFR>twitter.com/UlrichFR</a> - Ulrich - 18,41 tweets/day<br /><br /><strong>Top 10 tweet frequency non human Twitter accounts</strong><br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/xanapa>twitter.com/xanapa</a> - xanapa - 71,03 tweets/day<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/pomemail>twitter.com/pomemail</a> - pomemail - 49,26 tweets/day<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/eddymitchum>twitter.com/eddymitchum</a> - Eddy Mitchum - 30,14 tweets/day<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/le_figaro>twitter.com/le_figaro</a> - le_figaro - 21,86 tweets/day<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/LePoint>twitter.com/LePoint</a> - LePoint.fr - 19,19 tweets/day<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/LeMondeWorld>twitter.com/LeMondeWorld</a> - Le Monde - World - 16,51 tweets/day<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/lesechos>twitter.com/lesechos</a> - Les Echos - 16,41 tweets/day<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/GeekMusik>twitter.com/GeekMusik</a> - GeekMusik - 15,52 tweets/day<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/EMSC>twitter.com/EMSC</a> - EMSC - 13,41 tweets/day<br /><a target=_blank href=http://twitter.com/rcstrasbourg>twitter.com/rcstrasbourg</a> - rcstrasbourg - 12,95 tweets/day<br /><br /><strong>Degree of activity </strong><br />30% of all Twitter users from France have publised at least one message in the last 7 days. <br />36% of all Twitter users from France have not published a message for more than a month. <br />17% of all Twitter users from France have published at least message on in the period between 7 and 31 days (older than a week, but in the last month).<br /><br />12% of all Twitter users from France is private, so no information on their degree activity is available. <br />On 5% of the Twitter accounts from France not a single message has been published. <br /><br /><strong>Conclusion </strong><br />The graphs show that there is an active Twitter community in France. It is still growing day by day. The penetration of Twitter in France is however lower than in other European countries. This can be caused by the fact that the Twitter web interface is only available in French (and in Japanese ...). Knowledge of English is not widespread within the French population and people from France tend to stick to their language. <br /><br />Compared to other countries already analyzed, I was not able to detect many "non human" Twitter accounts, Twitter accounts on which the messages are automatically generated. Examples for such "non human" Twitter accounts are Twitter accounts for news services.<br /><br />If the Twitter web site would be available in other languages, Twitter would be a greater success, especially in European countries such as France.Bruno Peetershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16135336038823520839noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002661741282466322.post-90710783560914894132008-06-23T07:22:00.000+02:002008-06-23T07:28:45.731+02:00Tweetburner - clickthrough rates<a href="http://tweetburner.com/" target=_blank>Tweetburner</a> lets you track what happens with the links you share on Twitter. Links can be recognized as "twurl.nl". <a href="http://tweetburner.com/" target=_blank>Tweetburner</a> is an initiative of <a href="http://85.17.152.27/~twblog/about/" target=_blank>two entrepreneurs from The Netherlands</a>.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmLIrJKpzakc1lXuqHj7uvZxkYDYLNJlCELqmBxh5mxGHzPAXPEmXKTozKbLJnZcIUqHuoCJTJHjznCxa3jz0sQBQGsH9vu3HYzwYSOR561Bfg25CX18iVpql2LBoA1sr0PcwiBCDP3GE/s1600-h/tweetburner-homepage.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmLIrJKpzakc1lXuqHj7uvZxkYDYLNJlCELqmBxh5mxGHzPAXPEmXKTozKbLJnZcIUqHuoCJTJHjznCxa3jz0sQBQGsH9vu3HYzwYSOR561Bfg25CX18iVpql2LBoA1sr0PcwiBCDP3GE/s400/tweetburner-homepage.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5214859336760645234" /></a><br />One of the nice features of <a href="http://tweetburner.com/" target=_blank>Tweetburner</a> is that it generates a lot of statistics. Most of these statistics are even public available to everyone interested. As of this writing, <a href="http://tweetburner.com/" target=_blank>Tweetburner</a> has generated 274418 Twurls (shortened URLs), which have alltogether been clicked 2192254 times. This means that on average each shortened URL has been clicked about 8 times.<br /><br />I had a closer look at 60 Tweetburner users from The Netherlands, the home country of <a href="http://tweetburner.com/" target=_blank>Tweetburner</a>. The full details of these users can be found in the list below. This list contains probably the most active Tweetburner users from The Netherlands combined with several less active users.<br /><br />The global average clickthrough rate for <a href="http://tweetburner.com/" target=_blank>Tweetburner</a> shortened URLs is about 8 times. The average clickthrough rate for the observerd Dutch Twitter users varied from 4 (<a href="http://tweetburner.com/users/iPieter" target=_blank>@iPieter</a>) to 54 (<a href="http://tweetburner.com/users/erwblo" target=_blank>@erwblo</a>). The clickthrough rates have to be linked to the number of followers for each of the observed Twitter accounts. If a Twitter user has only a limited number of followers, the number of clicks will be probably low. If on the other hand a Twitter user has very high number of followers, the number of clicks will be (very) low. The ratio of average clicks per number of followers varies for the 60 observed Dutch Tweetburner users from 2% (<a href="http://tweetburner.com/users/pixites" target=_blank>@pixites</a> - <a href="http://twitter.com/pixites" target=_blank>803 followers</a>) to 91% (<a href="http://tweetburner.com/users/tuecursor" target=_blank>@tuecursor</a> - <a href="http://twitter.com/tuecursor" target=_blank>7 followers</a>).<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWvZFOIxpuo4-2afM_oZ7EfuQnzCf-ilgRnsCxZjLIsG1IcLsH2QaOSYmqWuq3-49UJGetiZPUR29kCthJqPkkvW_YJL7cembn1uHnCJ1rfZBB0A4SRsy3gOuLyjOhszaWiNa_PUUqGY8/s1600-h/tweetburner-graph.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWvZFOIxpuo4-2afM_oZ7EfuQnzCf-ilgRnsCxZjLIsG1IcLsH2QaOSYmqWuq3-49UJGetiZPUR29kCthJqPkkvW_YJL7cembn1uHnCJ1rfZBB0A4SRsy3gOuLyjOhszaWiNa_PUUqGY8/s400/tweetburner-graph.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5214858196497783090" /></a><br />As the graph illustrates, there seems to be a power relationship between the average number of clicks per follower and the number of followers. Twitter users with a very limited number of followers have very high clickthrough rates. Almost all their followers click on the links in their Twitter messages. Twitter users with a high to very high number of followers have a low clickthrough rate (less then 5%).<br /><br />This is an analysis of 60 Tweetburners users from the Netherlands. These 60 users have only generated less then 2% of all shortened URLs. It remains to be seen if these conclusions can be extrapolated to all Tweetburner users and even further to all Twitter users using URL shortening services (e.g. tinyurl).<br /><br />This is the full list of the analyzed 60 Tweetburners users from the Netherlands.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGNTnhdxBbTq6fZAAE6k665V0IZIkSJBJiBAD_tgruWNtPWhnrRt-7lhOXUwSGvWndUTXCMhFc_prjJxHBkD-iNTSq8p7zm4oALtHgSIBsEJedWNN2mgaYO8FMzOtCEpn1HEX7diGdoak/s1600-h/tweetburner-global.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGNTnhdxBbTq6fZAAE6k665V0IZIkSJBJiBAD_tgruWNtPWhnrRt-7lhOXUwSGvWndUTXCMhFc_prjJxHBkD-iNTSq8p7zm4oALtHgSIBsEJedWNN2mgaYO8FMzOtCEpn1HEX7diGdoak/s400/tweetburner-global.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5214858267110969602" /></a>Bruno Peetershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16135336038823520839noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002661741282466322.post-71269431023505632372008-06-11T22:24:00.002+02:002008-06-11T22:25:32.444+02:00TwitArcs<a href="http://www.neoformix.com/Projects/TwitArcs/TwitArcs.html" target=_blank>TwitArcs</a> is a new tool to visualize content from Twitter. <a href="http://www.neoformix.com/2008/TwitArcs.html" target=_blank>TwitArcs</a> takes the latest 100 tweets for a twitter ID or term of interest and creates a list representation that has arcs connecting messages sent to the same users or that use the same primary term.<br /><br />Have a look at the snapshot below, or try it yourself (<a href="http://www.neoformix.com/Projects/TwitArcs/TwitArcs.html" target=_blank>here</a>).<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlkzYOr6ufN7YfqH7oM4Fns6qyNJYDALBPDmZHrarPLE8rvFDEdx0Plcxksbu6xI_dVOoaCH2EsfJ5YdNG_KUF0sUW0EG-axwqaph11E7CJjPie57aG0THeUb0GJ-K4wf2hXUlFe6f4IA/s1600-h/twitarcs.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlkzYOr6ufN7YfqH7oM4Fns6qyNJYDALBPDmZHrarPLE8rvFDEdx0Plcxksbu6xI_dVOoaCH2EsfJ5YdNG_KUF0sUW0EG-axwqaph11E7CJjPie57aG0THeUb0GJ-K4wf2hXUlFe6f4IA/s400/twitarcs.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210722617875235938" /></a>Bruno Peetershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16135336038823520839noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002661741282466322.post-56940824685809073092008-05-29T19:17:00.004+02:002008-05-30T00:56:03.635+02:003rd State of the Twitosphere in BelgiumThe combination of living in Belgium and being interested in Twitter inspired me in the past to analyze the twitosphere in Belgium. The first analysis of the twitosphere on country level - for Belgium - was published on this blog on April 17 last year (<a href="http://twitterfacts.blogspot.com/2007/08/second-state-of-belgian-twitosphere.html" target="_blank">this post</a>). Several months later - on August 16 last year - I published an <a href="http://twitterfacts.blogspot.com/2007/04/first-state-of-belgian-twitosphere.html" target="_blank">update</a>.<br /><br />This is my third attempt to analyze the community of Twitter users in Belgium. I particulary interested in the evolution of Twitter usage. Was the hype over or is the Twitter community still increasing ? The first question in such an analysis is the number of Twitter users in Belgium. <a href="http://twitter.com/tw/search/users?q=location%3Abelgium" target="_blank">Twitter locates</a> 1491 Twitter users in Belgium, <a href="http://twitdir.com/index.php?search=belgium&where=l" target="_blank">Twitdir</a> reports 1252 Twitter users, <a href="http://terraminds.com/twitter/query?query=belgium&submit=search+in+users" target="_blank">Terraminds</a> (when it was still available) reported 920.<br /><br />Based on the location-info in the Twitter profiles, I was able to find 2118 Twitter users in Belgium, still active users. Persons who have closed their Twitter accounts are not included in this number. Because the number of Twitter users not mentioning a true location in their Twitter profile is estimated at around 50%, the actual number of Twitter users in Belgium will probably exceed 2118. With a population of 10.5 million people (source : <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgium">Wikipedia</a>), the Twitter user density for Belgium is one Twitter account for every 5000 inhabitants. <br /><br /><strong>History of the Twitter accounts in Belgium</strong> <br />The graph below shows the history of the Belgian Twitter accounts. The graph is based on the date of the first message posted on each of the public Belgian Twitter accounts. Twitter users who haven't published any messages and Twitter users with a private profile (their messages are only visible for their approved followers) are not included in this graph.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqH56VhydtyhYRRax15JEqiYAVaFS5wEt1CmG9DvkrXjS_71oDIVPf99-Yew7KY0bfwUFobCaOvhdyCMrW4_M0I6xAh-BhijUGSU3Gzy2VbIvvKlslTwGtPGRVWPHzfpezRWbozpY-PLc/s1600-h/tf-belgium-history.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqH56VhydtyhYRRax15JEqiYAVaFS5wEt1CmG9DvkrXjS_71oDIVPf99-Yew7KY0bfwUFobCaOvhdyCMrW4_M0I6xAh-BhijUGSU3Gzy2VbIvvKlslTwGtPGRVWPHzfpezRWbozpY-PLc/s400/tf-belgium-history.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5205936391240163362" /></a><br /><br /><strong>Oldest Twitter accounts from Belgium</strong><ol><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/marcio">http://twitter.com/marcio</a> - marcio - first message on 26/07/2006</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/zingo">http://twitter.com/zingo</a> - Martin - first message on 22/08/2006</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/BuzzWorkers">http://twitter.com/BuzzWorkers</a> - Ben Borges - first message on 21/09/2006</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/onepointzero">http://twitter.com/onepointzero</a> - Colin O'Brien - first message on 22/09/2006</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/lode">http://twitter.com/lode</a> - Lode - first message on 26/09/2006</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/jacobeus">http://twitter.com/jacobeus</a> - Nicolas Jacobeus - first message on 28/09/2006</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/roald">http://twitter.com/roald</a> - Roald - first message on 28/09/2006</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/vpieters">http://twitter.com/vpieters</a> - Veerle Pieters - first message on 17/11/2006</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/malchick">http://twitter.com/malchick</a> - Malchick - first message on 18/11/2006</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/nijst">http://twitter.com/nijst</a> - Stijn F. - first message on 18/11/2006</li></ol><br /><br /><strong>Private or public</strong> <br />243 Twitter acounts from Belgium or 12% have chosen to keep their updates only available to their friends.<br /><br /><strong>Number of following</strong> <br />A Twitter user can choose to follow one or more other Twitter accounts, called "following". 294 Twitter accounts from Belgium or 14% do not follow other Twitter users. An average Twitter account from Belgium follows 25 Twitter accounts.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBBaUbpRR63qThDwlCmr-wDbOHdxDO5__e6jXNO-Fj0Lk_Y-5jeJOo21kQsoNKex1fqY3FFbFw5pDBORaIjzgWfRVkSc-KZEHNkwif8WuCzKs07ZMSXG8EcOzHhpxUxTxOP0gO3c1iTr0/s1600-h/tf-belgium-following.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBBaUbpRR63qThDwlCmr-wDbOHdxDO5__e6jXNO-Fj0Lk_Y-5jeJOo21kQsoNKex1fqY3FFbFw5pDBORaIjzgWfRVkSc-KZEHNkwif8WuCzKs07ZMSXG8EcOzHhpxUxTxOP0gO3c1iTr0/s400/tf-belgium-following.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5205936395535130674" /></a><br /><br />Top 10 following<ol><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/robinwauters">http://twitter.com/robinwauters</a> - Robin Wauters - 1.184 following</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/sidelinemag">http://twitter.com/sidelinemag</a> - Side-Line Magazine - 823 following</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/fotograaf">http://twitter.com/fotograaf</a> - www.bart.la - 743 following</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/thesisters">http://twitter.com/thesisters</a> - Anna & Betty - 484 following</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/quinze">http://twitter.com/quinze</a> - Denis Balencourt - 438 following</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/asimov">http://twitter.com/asimov</a> - Bruno Durdu - 408 following</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/bartvanbelle">http://twitter.com/bartvanbelle</a> - Bart Van Belle - 379 following</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/bwards">http://twitter.com/bwards</a> - bwards LIVE! - 350 following</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/nilsgeylen">http://twitter.com/nilsgeylen</a> - Nils Geylen - 351 following</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/scharre">http://twitter.com/scharre</a> - Johan Schaerlaeckens - 315 following</li></ol><br /><br /><strong>Number of followers</strong> <br />A follower is someone who has indicated another Twitter account as following and receives all updates of that other Twitter account. 136 Twitter users from Belgium or 6% have no Twitter followers at all, meaning that no one else on Twitter has indicated this account as following. The messages published by these Twitter users are only read by themselves (and by search engines). An average Twitter user from Belgium has 31 followers.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbYqDhvaWh5yF5Y-5gLdWNcoAulDrX4DbCrlV1VvkeYt9PKEa8jBGekKGCWlEKzEPINvTeJy7qRgXrGIv3gE548daLeBfw68aP10y-waL3cP-TpMVnZWkZge4g-RvMcVoXl6rHne-4ipM/s1600-h/tf-belgium-followers.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbYqDhvaWh5yF5Y-5gLdWNcoAulDrX4DbCrlV1VvkeYt9PKEa8jBGekKGCWlEKzEPINvTeJy7qRgXrGIv3gE548daLeBfw68aP10y-waL3cP-TpMVnZWkZge4g-RvMcVoXl6rHne-4ipM/s400/tf-belgium-followers.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5205936399830097986" /></a><br /><br />Top 10 followers<ol><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/vpieters">http://twitter.com/vpieters</a> - Veerle Pieters - 2.616 followers</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/robinwauters">http://twitter.com/robinwauters</a> - Robin Wauters - 1.193 followers</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/netlash">http://twitter.com/netlash</a> - Bart - 775 followers</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/aguerra">http://twitter.com/aguerra</a> - Andrea Guerra - 528 followers</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/crossthebreeze">http://twitter.com/crossthebreeze</a> - Kris Hoet - 494 followers</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/tijs">http://twitter.com/tijs</a> - Tijs - 462 followers</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/bnox">http://twitter.com/bnox</a> - Clo Willaerts - 435 followers</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/Pietel">http://twitter.com/Pietel</a> - Pietel - 433 followers</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/mschenk">http://twitter.com/mschenk</a> - Maarten Schenk - 379 followers</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/emich">http://twitter.com/emich</a> - Michael Uyttersprot - 373 followers</li></ol><br /><br /><strong>Updates</strong> <br />An update is the term refering to Twitter messages published by a Twitter users. These are also called tweets. The average number of updates for a Twitter users from Belgium is 373. 108 Twitter users (or 5%) are still waiting for their first message to be published. Below you can find two top 10 lists, one with Twitter users where messages are published in an automated way, the second one with "real" Twitter users.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6kIxX1lcgTVaTb9DgsXoS88G6RPVHsnUSHiR09aEBzgO68ONTTm5Vk9vchLxxZ1aEacW5_5l0NsFDTVdqJeiPwRiyJSr6st40cuDdTkMn0enradDKy67zGzL-bmqjum68FPEEjNLPsuA/s1600-h/tf-belgium-updates.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6kIxX1lcgTVaTb9DgsXoS88G6RPVHsnUSHiR09aEBzgO68ONTTm5Vk9vchLxxZ1aEacW5_5l0NsFDTVdqJeiPwRiyJSr6st40cuDdTkMn0enradDKy67zGzL-bmqjum68FPEEjNLPsuA/s400/tf-belgium-updates.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5205936399830098002" /></a><br /><br />Top 10 updates from non human Twitter accounts<ol><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/dsonline">http://twitter.com/dsonline</a> - De Standaard Online - 87.331 updates</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/ClopMonitor">http://twitter.com/ClopMonitor</a> - ClopMonitor - 48.300 updates</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/rtlinfo">http://twitter.com/rtlinfo</a> - RTL Info - 41.563 updates</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/radioo">http://twitter.com/radioo</a> - radioo - 37.773 updates</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/lesoir">http://twitter.com/lesoir</a> - Le Soir - 18.295 updates</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/tijd">http://twitter.com/tijd</a> - De Tijd - 12.311 updates</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/lecho">http://twitter.com/lecho</a> - L'Echo - 11.527 updates</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/belgium_nl">http://twitter.com/belgium_nl</a> - belgium_nl - 10.686 updates</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/radioo_donna">http://twitter.com/radioo_donna</a> - radioo_donna - 10.657 updates</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/vrtnieuwsnet">http://twitter.com/vrtnieuwsnet</a> - De Redactie - 8.157 updates</li></ol><br /><br />Top 10 updates from "real" Twitter users<ol><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/emich">http://twitter.com/emich</a> - Michael Uyttersprot - 7.747 updates</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/atog">http://twitter.com/atog</a> - Koen Van der Auwera - 7.614 updates</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/Kmeron">http://twitter.com/Kmeron</a> - FrF_Kmeron - 6.159 updates</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/netlash">http://twitter.com/netlash</a> - Bart - 6.058 updates</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/Inferis">http://twitter.com/Inferis</a> - Inferis - 6.036 updates</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/nilsgeylen">http://twitter.com/nilsgeylen</a> - Nils Geylen - 4.637 updates</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/studio_stefke">http://twitter.com/studio_stefke</a> - Stefan Van De Velde - 4.567 updates</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/robinwauters">http://twitter.com/robinwauters</a> - Robin Wauters - 4.536 updates</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/Mateusz">http://twitter.com/Mateusz</a> - Mateusz - 4.313 updates</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/imkedielen">http://twitter.com/imkedielen</a> - Imke Dielen - 3.724 updates</li></ol><br /><br /><strong>Tweet frequency</strong> <br />The tweet frequency is het average number of Twitter messages published on a unit of time, calculcated from the first message published. Twitter accounts created in the last 30 days were not taken into account. <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMlY3USffpIBDZJ0xhx8xyb5us7wifnCSncbsKYa8nwJJ89b7_VdotsJe9uGaG6jC5gbQQbuPPnXlEPZ6oLxYrKKIGezK1Fjy-Ld5k6LojteoHj60lWf6V0Uc8uISKhTYr-k6lU583bsM/s1600-h/tf-belgium-frequency.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMlY3USffpIBDZJ0xhx8xyb5us7wifnCSncbsKYa8nwJJ89b7_VdotsJe9uGaG6jC5gbQQbuPPnXlEPZ6oLxYrKKIGezK1Fjy-Ld5k6LojteoHj60lWf6V0Uc8uISKhTYr-k6lU583bsM/s400/tf-belgium-frequency.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5205936404125065314" /></a><br /><br />Top 10 tweet frequency non human Twitter accounts<ol><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/radioo">http://twitter.com/radioo</a> - radioo - 275,18 tweets/day</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/radioo_donna">http://twitter.com/radioo_donna</a> - radioo_donna - 270,26 tweets/day</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/belgium_nl">http://twitter.com/belgium_nl</a> - belgium_nl - 222,40 tweets/day</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/dsonline">http://twitter.com/dsonline</a> - De Standaard Online - 212,68 tweets/day</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/ClopMonitor">http://twitter.com/ClopMonitor</a> - ClopMonitor - 175,64 tweets/day</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/fmbrussel">http://twitter.com/fmbrussel</a> - FM Brussel Live! - 152,83 tweets/day</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/rtlinfo">http://twitter.com/rtlinfo</a> - RTL Info - 119,70 tweets/day</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/radioo_radio1">http://twitter.com/radioo_radio1</a> - radioo_radio1 - 111,43 tweets/day</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/belgium_fr">http://twitter.com/belgium_fr</a> - belgium_fr - 101,25 tweets/day</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/lesoir">http://twitter.com/lesoir</a> - Le Soir - 56,45 tweets/day</li></ol><br /><br />Top 10 tweet frequency real Twitter users<ol><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/Kmeron">http://twitter.com/Kmeron</a> - FrF_Kmeron - 22,08 tweets/day</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/Tjakkahhh">http://twitter.com/Tjakkahhh</a> - Tjakkahhh - 21,12 tweets/day</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/emich">http://twitter.com/emich</a> - MichaÃ"l Uyttersprot - 17,66 tweets/day</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/atog">http://twitter.com/atog</a> - Koen Van der Auwera - 17,47 tweets/day</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/rrradiogirrrl">http://twitter.com/rrradiogirrrl</a> - Sigrid - 15,92 tweets/day</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/vaantje">http://twitter.com/vaantje</a> - Thomas - 15,89 tweets/day</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/WimProot">http://twitter.com/WimProot</a> - WimProot - 13,79 tweets/day</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/netlash">http://twitter.com/netlash</a> - Bart - 13,25 tweets/day</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/vrxj81">http://twitter.com/vrxj81</a> - Johan Vrolix - 12,00 tweets/day</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/studio_stefke">http://twitter.com/studio_stefke</a> - Stefan Van De Velde - 11,64 tweets/day</li></ol><br /><br /><strong>Degree of activity</strong> <br />36% of all Twitter users from Belgium have publised at least one message in the last 7 days. <br />31% of all Twitter users from Belgium have not published a message for more than a month. <br />17% of all Twitter users from Belgium have published at least message on in the period between 7 and 31 days (older than a week, but in the last month).<br /><br />12% of all Twitter users from Belgium is private, so no information on their degree activity is available. <br />On 5% of the Belgian Twitter accounts not a single message has been published. <br /><br /><strong>Conclusion</strong> <br />The graphs show that there is a group of heavy Twitter users in Belgium. There users produce many tweets, they follow lots of other users, they are being followed by lots of other users. On the other hand there is a large portion of Twitter accounts that can be considered as probable inactif : not a single message or a very small number of messages, no or only a few followers, no or only a few following, a lot of time since the last tweet. Between these two extremes there is large group of the remaining Twitter users.<br /><br />I was a little bit surprized to notice that the growth of the Twitter user in Belgium has not stopped yet, it even looks that the growth rate is even increasing. This surprized me because of the group of A-list bloggers in Belgium (who were the first to find their way to Twitter) already started using Twitter a long time ago. Twitter is attracting new users who probably do not have a blog. The growth of Twitter amongst Belgians clearly shows that the Twitter platform fulfills a need.Bruno Peetershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16135336038823520839noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002661741282466322.post-13691573406946062032008-05-19T18:29:00.000+02:002008-05-19T18:30:55.362+02:00Compete on Twitter Traffic ExplosionCompete has released on its blog <a href="http://blog.compete.com/2008/05/15/twitter-traffic-growth-usage-demographics/" target=_blank>some figures</a> concerning Twitter usage in the US. Currently Twitter is attracting 1.2 million people per month. This figure is remarkable, because Twitter has currenlty a little bit over 1.6 million users with a public profile (as reported by Twitdir).<br /><br />One of the main conclusions of Compete is that Twitter is a weekday event. On any typical weekday, Twitter is receiving more than twice the attention as a weekend day. Still according to Compete, a Twitter user is young, male and addicted to Twitter.<br /><br />For more info take a look at the <a href="http://blog.compete.com/2008/05/15/twitter-traffic-growth-usage-demographics/" target=_blank>post</a> at Compete.Bruno Peetershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16135336038823520839noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3002661741282466322.post-83104384962621653542008-05-15T22:31:00.001+02:002008-05-15T22:33:47.277+02:001.5 million Twitter usersOn this blog, I have been tracking the number of Twitter users reported by <a href="http://www.twitdir.com/" target=_blank>Twitdir</a>. On April 28, I <a href="http://twitterfacts.blogspot.com/2008/04/1-million-twitter-users-according-to.html" target=_blank>announced</a> that Twitter passed the 1 million mark. <br /><br />According to <a href="http://www.twitdir.com/" target=_blank>Twitdir</a>, Twitter has currently over 1.5 million users. Over a period of a little bit more than two weeks Twitdir was capable of detecting 0.5 million users. This sudden increase in the number reported by Twitdir is probably due to a change in its algorithm, as announced on the <a href="http://blog.twitdir.com/post/32243722" target=_blank>Twitdir blog</a>. <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhomaL1l4PuoVubWJ1hoiOidJs-41_-07KUezDLreyt6ohinb4MS851JJgRVQ9bd0a3qVGQjIPBn_1NQ_LaRExlnnydQ5gnEevrNxydyap7rNxEC1yEi_eCwCbZ5xM_rFkevyU-bY82IEc/s1600-h/tf-twitdir-1.5-million.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhomaL1l4PuoVubWJ1hoiOidJs-41_-07KUezDLreyt6ohinb4MS851JJgRVQ9bd0a3qVGQjIPBn_1NQ_LaRExlnnydQ5gnEevrNxydyap7rNxEC1yEi_eCwCbZ5xM_rFkevyU-bY82IEc/s400/tf-twitdir-1.5-million.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5200705343723244866" /></a><br /><br />Who wants to make a guess when Twitter will reach the 2 million mark ?Bruno Peetershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16135336038823520839noreply@blogger.com5