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Twitter: Five Degrees of Separation
Everyone is pretty familiar with the concept of “Six Degrees of Separation”, which suggests that everyone is, at most, six steps away from any other person in the world. The other, popular concept is “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon“, which suggests that every actor is the world is only six steps away from Kevin Bacon.
But [...]
75M Twitter Users But Growth Slowing
First, the good news: there are now 75 million Twitters users.
Now, the bad news: only 15 million are “active” users, and overall growth is slowing after peaking last July.
These findings come from RJ Metrics, which based its findings after downloading “just under 2 million tweets from about 50,000 users”.
Here are the report’s conclusions:
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Twitter: Big in Brazil
Social media is being embraced around the world but it’s always interesting to see countries where a particular service is wildly popular. Facebook, for example, has a huge number of users in Canada, while Orkut, Google’s social media service, is popular in India and Brazil.
Not surprisingly, Twitter has been a U.S.-led phenomena since its launch. [...]
Four Alternatives to Twitter.com
As Twitter has become more popular, the number of people using Twitter.com to write and read tweets has declined as more publishing tools and services has flourished. According to a recent report by Sysomos, Twitter.com’s market share has dropped from 47% to 40% over the past five months.
For people looking for alternatives beyond obvious candidates [...]
Analyzing Twitter…Based on Only 2K Tweets??
One of my clients is Sysomos, which has done two “Inside Twitter” reports that involved crunching data from 11.4 million Twitter accounts. We’re talking about in-depth analytics.
So, it’s a bit of a head-scratcher to see Pear Analytics publish a report suggesting that 40.55% of all updates are “pointless babble” based on a sample of 2,000 [...]
Different Twitter Tools for Different Tasks