Who is doing the Twittering?

As I explained in this posting, I first tried Twitter two years ago. I soon decided that it was not for me.
Frankly, I’ve been surprised that two years later so many people – and much of the media – seem to have suddenly discovered Twitter and decided that it’s a powerful communications tool. For some it has worked well (Stephen Fry and Demi Moore, for instance) but, for most, I suspect it’s just a passing fad.
So who is doing all this Twittering. According to this piece, an examination of 300,000 Twitter users that 10% of Twitter users generated more than 90% of the content, while more than half of all Twitter users post messages on the site less than once every 74 days.
Do you use Twitter?

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4 Comments

  • Nick
    June 8th, 2009 at 5:46 pm

    I’ve been using Twitter for almost four months. In that time, I’ve posted 279 updates, averaging 2-3 tweets a day. Does that put me in the top 10%?
    I think a lot of people register on Twitter, maybe make one post, and then decide it’s not for them. That’s why the median number (and probably the mode) of lifetime tweets per user is just one!
    Roger, I’m surprised you don’t use Twitter as an adjunct to your blog. Does Movable Type offer a plugin to automatically tweet your subject line and shorten the URL? You could garner even more NightHawk followers!

  • Sharon
    June 8th, 2009 at 8:48 pm

    I *love* Twitter. I use it differently to Facebook and there is a place for both as far as I am concerned. The thing I like is that you can follow people you cannot on Facebook, people like Lance Armstrong – someone who you wouldn’t be in contact with otherwise. I have to confess, I use it mostly to help with my road cycling addiction.

  • Philip
    June 9th, 2009 at 10:24 am

    I don’t really understand it but a colleague tried to enlighten me. He said the difference between blogging and twittering was that in the former you would say you had just been to the toilet, but in the latter you would say that you are currently on the toilet.

  • Roger Darlington
    June 10th, 2009 at 11:11 am

    Well, Philip. I’m glad that we got to the bottom of that 🙂

 




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