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Twitter: Big in Brazil

By Mark Evans | Published: January 15, 2010
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. [...]
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Four Alternatives to Twitter.com

By Mark Evans | Published: December 10, 2009
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 [...]
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Analyzing Twitter…Based on Only 2K Tweets??

By Mark Evans | Published: August 13, 2009
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 [...]
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An In-Depth Look at Twitter

By Mark Evans | Published: June 11, 2009
It’s increasingly difficult to ignore Twitter given how many are jumping on the bandwagon, and how much mainstream media coverage it continues to attract. There’s been a growing number of surveys done about Twitter’s growth and how people use it. The newest entrant is Sysomos, which collected information from 11.5 million Twitter accounts to get an [...]
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