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5% of Twitter users account for 75% of all activity

Here is a great source of data points on Twitter and Twitter users:

http://sysomos.com/insidetwitter/

The big take-aways are:

• 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 the people who identify themselves as marketers, 15% follow more than 2,000 people. This compares with 0.29% of overall Twitter users who follow more than 2,000 people.

 

The source of this data is Sysomos. According to Sysomos's site:

"Sysomos is redefining social media analytics by providing corporations, marketers, public relations agencies and advertisers with the intelligence and insight needed to make smarter business and strategic decisions. The Sysomos platform provides instant and unlimited access to all social media conversations to see what's happening, why it's happening, and who's driving the conversations."

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