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How We Tweet: The Definitive List of the Top Twitter Clients. Last November we put up a guide to the most popular Twitter clients.

How We Tweet: The Definitive List of the Top Twitter Clients

For that post we looked at a random sample of 717 tweets from a handful of heavy Twitter users and identified 19 different ways people interacted with the service. Twitter has one of the fastest growing application ecosystems of any web service outside of Facebook. For this post, we looked at 37,248 tweets and found 142 different ways in which people interact with the Twitter service. Some of the results, which follow below, were rather surprising. How We Gathered Data We used the Twitter API to monitor the public feed and capture data on 37,248 tweets over a 24 hour period. Because we ran our script on a shared host, we limited our script to running at 60 second intervals and grabbed the 20 tweets listed in the public feed every 60 seconds.

The script that we used to do this was created for us by developer Kelli Shaver, who also compiled the data for the PDF report linked to later in this post. The Results Key Takeaways. Twitter.com Is Still the Most Popular Twitter Client - TweetDeck a Distant Second. Twitter's own homepage is still the most popular tool for users to update their status on Twitter.

Twitter.com Is Still the Most Popular Twitter Client - TweetDeck a Distant Second

Around 46% of all updates are made directly on the site. Social media analytics and monitoring service Sysomos analyzed 500 million tweets it collected over the past 5 months and found that TweetDeck is the most popular third-party client. TweetDeck has a comfortable lead with a 8.48% share of the market, followed by Tweetie, Twitterific and Seesmic. Update: There was a mistake in Sysomos' report. Twitter.com's share actually grew slightly from 45.7% in June to 46.7%. Compared to Sysomos' last study of Twitter clients in June, Twitter.com's share fell from 55% to 46%. TweetDeck: The Client of Choice for Active Twitter Users TweetDeck doesn't just have the largest number of users, it is also the tool of choice for the most active Twitter users. How Many Clients Do You Use?

Sysomos also analyzed how many third-party clients Twitter users normally use. Picnics - Getting Started. TweetUp acquires Twidroid, Android’s most popular Twitter client. TweetUp is a company you may or may not have heard of, that takes the stream from Twitter Search and attempts to filter out the “noise” with algorithms ” based on quality, relevance, and influence of tweets and tweeters, combined with a bid-based marketplace”.

TweetUp acquires Twidroid, Android’s most popular Twitter client

They have also acquired popurls.com, a social network and news aggregation site. So what does that mean for the end Android user? Well, look for a revamped Twidroid application, to be renamed Twidroyd (to avoid trademark infringement), with better search features, as well as mass distribution by preloading Twidroyd on new hardware. Apparently the deals are already in place. Will the app change to the point that a new king client will rise? Here’s the full press release: TweetUp Acquires Twidroid, #1 Twitter Client for Android – Renamed Twidroyd, the App Will Be Bundled with Millions of New Phones from 5 Leading Manufacturers PASADENA, Calif.

[via BGR] The Evolving Ecosystem. Just over four months ago, at Chirp, our Twitter developer conference, I talked about how “Twitter is too hard” and what we’re doing to address that.

The Evolving Ecosystem

One major area of difficulty I highlighted was getting Twitter on your phone. We did iPhone user tests and confirmed that even though there was a plethora of third-party Twitter apps, people were having trouble finding and selecting one because none were called “Twitter.” This kept them from using Twitter at all. For this reason, we acquired Tweetie and turned it into Twitter for iPhone, complete with a new user sign-up experience. Mobile apps – Everywhere We quickly understood that we were doing users a disservice by not having a great client on each of the major mobile platforms. This strategy has been quite successful. How people are using Twitter Our Twitter for iPhone and Twitter for BlackBerry clients are now two of the most popular ways to use Twitter.