Twitter Research: 10% Active Twitter, 90% Auto Tweeting

A new Harvard Business Review abstraction reveals that the 10% of Twitter users annual for over 90% of Twitter letters sent. That’s a added askew arrangement than alike Wikipedia, area 15% of editors annual for 90% of all edits or amusing networks area the top 10% of best alive users actualize 30% of all activity.

What’s it mean? Bill Heil and Mikolaj Piskorski, who wrote up the abstraction for HBR, conclude:

This implies that Twitter’s resembles added of a one-way, one-to-many publishing account added than a two-way, peer-to-peer advice network.

users contributing on twitter

We anticipate it additionally credibility to a ample cardinal of bored-user and spam accounts on the microblogging service. During the All Things D appointment aftermost week, Walt Mossberg said added than bisected of all Twitter users acknowledgment to the armpit beneath than already a month. Likewise, the HBR address says bisected of Twitter users cheep beneath than already every 74 canicule and that amid Twitter users, “the boilerplate cardinal of lifetime tweets per user is one.”

The HBR address additionally looked at gender and came up with the following:

• * “Men accept 15% added followers than women.”
• * “An boilerplate man is about alert added acceptable to chase addition man than a woman.”
• * “An boilerplate woman is 25% added acceptable to chase a man than a woman.”

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