Twitter Statistics: A Mixed Bag
By: Andrea Trapani
New Twitter statistics are in and it’s certainly interesting. Consider this:
-72.5% of all users joining during the first five months of 2009.
-85.3% of all Twitter users post less than one update/day
-21% of users have never posted a Tweet
-93.6% of users have less than 100 followers, while 92.4% follow less than 100 people.
-5% of Twitter users account for 75% of all activity
-New York has the most Twitters users, followed by Los Angeles, Toronto, San Francisco and Boston; while Detroit was the fast-growing city over the first five months of 2009
-More than 50% of all updates are published using tools – mobile and Web-based – other than Twitter.com. TweetDeck is the most popular non-Twitter.com tool with 19.7% market share.
-There are more women on Twitter (53%) than men (47%)
-Of people who identify themselves as PR professionals, 65.5% have never posted an update
-Of the people who identify themselves as PR professionals, 15% follow more than 2,000 people. This compares with 0.29% of overall Twitter users who follow more than 2,000 people.
