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Saturday, May 10, 2008

How do people update Twitter?

In this post i want to focus on the stats I gathered about the distribution of twitter updates. The data simply represents % of the posts made with each service. Twitter-addicts usually use clients and update more frequently so if we would want to track unique users instead of posts ammounts I expect the weight of web-updates would rise dramatically. I'll digg more inside the stats as i move on with my project.
Please note, that "TwitterFeed" actually updates Twitter automatically without user interaction. So as i move on in this post, I'll break data into smaller sections.

update methodpopularity
web46,83%
im5,83%
txt5,17%
twitterfeed6,67%
twit6,50%
twhirl6,33%
twiterrific5,17%
P3:PeraPeraPrv2,33%
twitterfox1,83%
twinkle1,67%
movattwitter1,50%
other10,17%




Let's see how it looks like if we compare the services that twitter owns vs. 3d party clients. RSS updates are excluded from the calculation.
update methodTwitter + TXT + IM3d party clients
popularity62%38%


And the most popular Twitter clients in May were:
update methodpopularity
twhirl17,84%
twiterrific14,55%
twit18,3%
twitterfox5,16%
P3:PeraPeraPrv6,57%
movattwitter4,22%
twinkle4,69%
other28,63


Japanise language Twitter clients got an impressive 10,33% share.