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Twitter activity at all-time low, only 17% of users actually tweet
The delicious stats go on! About 80% of Twitter users have tweeted less than ten times in total. 40% of all 75 million accounts have never tweeted. 25% have zero followers. Also, while the service is still growing (6.2 million new accounts in December), it seems its growth has peaked and is now beginning to fall: July saw 7.8 million new accounts. The growth graph still looks very impressive -- it's just a matter of the inherent quality of those new users.
The report ends on a good note (for Twitter users at least): it doesn't look like its loyal users are even thinking about jumping ship. Basically, despite the 83% of users not tweeting on a monthly basis, the remaining 17% make up them in a big way -- they're highly-loyal to their followers and actually become more active over time.
[via ComputerWorld]
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Subscribe to commentsJon NiolaJan 27th 2010 9:08AM
This makes sense to me. It is basically a "land grab" with people reserving their names regardless of if they will ever use them or not just to keep others from owning them.
pat_boy2008Jan 27th 2010 9:19AM
Well that's not surprising since most Twitter accounts are spam accounts.
__smooth__Jan 27th 2010 9:25AM
+1 on that!
richard.gaileyJan 27th 2010 9:38AM
@Jon True, but the inactive ones do get purged once in a while, and the names go back in the pot.
I admit that when I first signed up for Twitter last year, I hardly used it for the first couple of months. Now, I am on it everyday and tweet about 20 times a day ish. It's a fantastic way to find out what's happening in real-time in the world of tech, photography, news etc; and a great way to post links to articles that you either find interesting or importance.
KevinJan 27th 2010 9:36AM
Twitter is lame. It's a social networking site without all the tools that make the other sites work. It's the driving equivalent of being a kid and sitting in the drivers seat of your dad's parked car and saying, "Vroom vroom!"
astrotoysevenJan 27th 2010 10:06AM
These stats are not surprising. People can only take so much of the mundane crap that was being passed around the globe. Hopefully the format will involve into something useful. I'm an old fashioned type, prefer a nice wordy blog and and RSS to stay in the loop for things worth knowing :)
Sebastian AnthonyJan 27th 2010 11:33AM
What about, like... printed words on paper? :P
michas_piJan 27th 2010 12:18PM
And nothing of value was lost.
Fox318Jan 27th 2010 12:42PM
Oddly enough I've found myself using twitter more.
jm3Jan 27th 2010 2:07PM
My answer to the positioning of this article is a question: How many TV watchers broadcast their own TV shows?
The TeknisyanJan 27th 2010 3:37PM
Nice info... and yeah... not all people tweets... I usually tweet atleast once a week. I don't even have a facebook account!!! :)
AllanM88Jan 27th 2010 7:33PM
Does this count the people who use Twitter apps such as UberTwitter, TweetDeck, TwitterBerry, etc.?
For example, I signed in on Twitter.com but have never really gone back to the site because I tweet from an app - both from my mobile phone (UberTwitter) and my PC (TweetDeck).
So for someone counting, it may seem I am an inactive user because I haven't been back to access the main domain (Twitter.com), even though I tweet several times a day.
Sebastian AnthonyJan 27th 2010 7:34PM
I am pretty sure it counts anything that is publicly visible on the website -- so I don't think your client should matter :)
enerGIJan 27th 2010 8:46PM
Twitter = Boring as f.ck, hold on, let me go tweet that :p
kevjohnJan 28th 2010 10:55AM
IMO all the celebrity Twitterers* kind of took a lot of the spotlight and made it into a publicity tool. The Average Joe doesn't need publicity.
* - Tweeters? I'm actually kind of glad that I never bothered to learn the terminology. =)
kingabraham3Jan 28th 2010 3:10PM
i dont use twitter, but funny how this post has 344 "retweets", but only 13 facebook "shares"
Sebastian AnthonyJan 28th 2010 4:20PM
There's a phrase that goes something like 'Twitter is the thing Twitterers love the most.' -- as in, not the news, or the value of the service but Twitter itself.
It's just egocentricity I think :)
mxmxtchiJan 30th 2010 8:40PM
"Note that, due to Twitter’s rapid user growth, the absolute number of users who tweeted that same month is probably one of the company’s highest ever, despite this all-time low percentage."
__smooth__Feb 1st 2010 10:08AM
+1 on that!