State of the Twittersphere
Dec 28th, 2008 by Carl
Do you twitt?
A recent study provides some interesting insight of the State of the Twittersphere based on about 500,000 accounts tracked by Twitter Grader.
- Twitter has lots of newer and less active users
- 70% of Twitter users joined in 2008
- An estimated 5-10 thousand new accounts are opened per day
- 35% of Twitter users have 10 or fewer followers
- 9% of Twitter users follow no one at all
- There is a strong correlation between the number of followers you have and the number of people you follow.
Check out the whole study:
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