Recently released research by Portland Communications (available in PDF) shows that 57% of African tweets are from mobile. 3/5 of Africa’s most active Twitters users are 20-29 years old (for comparison, the average age of Twitter users worldwide is 39). The top 20 areas by volume of tweets are: Source
UPDATE: Champions League match between Barcelona and Chelsea just set a new sports record of 13,684 tweets per second (TPS), exceeding February’s Super Bowl record of a peak of 12,233 TPS. Early in 2012, three of the all-time tweets-per second records were quickly set. The first came on New Year’s day, second highest and yesterday’s Superbowl game, the [...]
Just before 2 PM ET a 5.8-5.9 earthquake struck the East Coast of the United States near outside Mineral, Virginia. Damage was minimal…but reaction on Twitter was extensive, with 40,000 earthquake related tweets in the first 60 seconds, and a peak of 5500 tweets per second. Click here for an animation of how Earthquake-Related Tweets [...]
Twitter released some new stats: 1 billion tweets are sent every five days. Here is a more readable version of the infographic showing how many tweets per day that is:
Possibly the real story here, as Dave Cole points out in the comments, is that very few people list their religion in their Twitter bio. Dave suggests “The graph really needs to show % of people who list a religion vs. not.” Source @lakey (Chris Lake), using data from http://followerwonk.com/ which checks only what people list in their [...]
