Twitter Stats

A new Compete study has found that 18 to 34 year olds are 52% more likely to be logging into Twitter primarily via a mobile device. These users are twice as likely to use Twitter when they are out with friends, and 62% of mobile Twitter users communicate with people near them via Twitter, like tweeting [...]

In years past, I noticed some Twitter employees didn’t even have a Twitter account before they were hired.  No longer. Now potential hires have their Twitter accounts carefully studied by CEO Dick Costolo’s staff before they are hired, to make sure it meets their criteria. Only started your Twitter account in the last few weeks? [...]

A cool new service—the Diffbot Page Classifier API—instantly determines the page type of any web link, e.g product, article, image, recipe, etc. Very cool! Their Chrome extension classifies every link in your Tweet-stream, and automatically expands all photos and articles without leaving Twitter.com. Diffbot analyzed 750,000 links posted to Twitter to determine what we’re sharing, [...]

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