According to yesterday reports, growth of Twitter has been flattened or even slightly declined. I was curious to see how Twitter is used by the user. Like yesterday, the following charts are based on data from approximately 10% of all Twitter accounts:
Friends and Follower
Let’s start directly with the core function of Twitter: Accounts, which is itself follows (Friends) as well as accounts that are interested in their own status messages (follower). The following diagram, these figures are divided into classes and provided with an appropriate percentage of the Twitter accounts:
If one views the assumption that Twitter with 2 or 3, followed streams generally makes little more fun, is also shown in these figures that it is not the pure numbers to existing Twitter accounts should not be overestimated. Indeed It seems surprisingly for few of them.
Tweets per month
In this diagram, the average number of tweets per month from the date of account registration is applied:
Had the value leveled off until a few months at about 15 tweets per account per month, he has fallen sharply in recent months account of rapid growth and is currently against 5 In the comments of the previous posts, the low usage of the new accounts is explained by the fact that this may be more passive, that is used as a pure Leseaccount. It is difficult from the outside, these figures probably only has Twitter.
Clients used
The fact that Twitter can be used not only by the web interface, but also a variety of different clients and will show this evaluation:
The web interface is still by far the most common interface that other ways are catching up, however. Surprising to me was the number of different clients: in the database, I count nearly 2800 different application names.
Contents of Tweets
What does these content for Tweets do now anyway? Since no intern has agreed to categorize the handful of clean data, it must do the following analysis. It was determined, as usual in the percentage of all messages four, in the Twitter universe features are used:
The address of other users with the @ character before the username is just over 20 percent still the most common usage, ReTweet, so the repetition of the message to another user for the retransmission is only about 1% of all tweets. Thus SEO people make use of Link building services.
Widespread use of domains and URL Shortener
Twitter donated only 140 characters per tweet, there are services to shorten the elongated URLs and allow more space for the real news which has become fashionable and most efficient for link building. In this diagram all the Tweets were examined with a URL on the domain:
Good to see that Bit.ly (not modified significantly by the close cooperation with Twitter) is in the lead: nearly 40 percent of all cultivated on Twitter URLs run through this service. Tinyurl.com, not so long ago still leads the way is now far behind.
That’s it for today. The third and final posting from the twitter-Series is yet to come Monday. Then I want to watch how Twitter developed in Germany must squeeze the whole Tweets from the database but its only a service used to detect the language.