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On Twitter, People Are Sheep

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TechCrunch has posted the results of a study showing that 80% of Twitter users have less than 10 followers, and 30% of users have no followers at all.

More in Internet | June 6th, 2009

TechCrunch has posted the results of a study showing that 80% of Twitter users have less than 10 followers, and 30% of users have no followers at all.


Followers
Accounts with 0 followers: 29.4%
Accounts with 1 to 9 followers: 50.9%
Accounts with 10 or more followers: 19.7%

Followings
Accounts following 0 people: 24.4%
Accounts following 1 to 9 people: 43.4%
Accounts following 10 or more people: 32.2%

Tweets
Accounts with 0 Tweets: 37.1%
Accounts with 1 to 9 Tweets: 41.0%
Accounts with more 10 or more Tweets: 21.9%

This is actually pretty interesting. In my opinion, people are using Twitter as a news source rather than as a two-way conversation.

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4 Responses to “On Twitter, People Are Sheep”

  1. Chris Kinsey says:

    Reflects true life. Most of us ARE sheep

  2. Chris bahhhhhhhhhhhhhahahhha

    That is some great facts. Who would have thought? I do agree with your opinion about the news source. Personally I don’t feel I use it in that way but most do. Majority people that follow me have 0 to 10 tweets themselves and a shit ton of people they follow. I guess that isn’t a bad thing though for people like us that like to post a lot of useful things right?

    More advertisement for us = good analytics haha

  3. gjunkie says:

    Yeah the facts are pretty stunning. I thought the percentage of people with more that 10 followers would have been much higher.

  4. Tyler says:

    it’s the worlds biggest pyramid scheme if you think about it.

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