Formulists / Home. Most Tweets Produce Zero Replies or Retweets [STUDY] Sysomos, maker of social media analysis tools, looked at 1.2 billion tweets over a two-month period to analyze what happens after we publish our tweets to Twitter. Its research shows that 71% of all tweets produce no reaction — in the form of replies or retweets — which suggests that an overwhelming majority of our tweets fall on deaf ears. Sysomos findings also highlight that retweets are especially hard to come by — only 6% of all tweets produce a retweet (the other 23% solicit replies).
The remarkably low percentage of retweets happening on Twitter might be encouraging news for those of us who feel like Twitter outcasts because we don't get retweeted often; clearly, we are not in the minority. Delving deeper into the research, we see that most replies and retweets happen in the first hour after a tweet has been published. 96.9% of replies and 92.4% of retweets happen within that all-imporant first-hour window. HOW TO: Help New Users Stay Engaged on Twitter. This Twitter Trends Series is supported by Bing.™ Check out the Bing Local Twitter Trends Map on Mashable. One of Twitter's most disappointing trends is its lack of solid user retention. If you're a Twitter evangelist, the scenario is probably familiar.
You explain to friends and family how much value and fun can be had in 140 characters. They sign up, test the waters for a few days, derive no use value, and promptly abandon their accounts. To remedy this, we've outlined the common missteps of new users and some ways you can help prevent them from becoming part of the Twitter quitter trend. They Only Follow People They Know This is probably the most common reason why new users lose interest, and it stems from a division in social web culture.
At this moment, the standard bearer for social networking is Facebook, and it's generally a culture of in-person acquaintances: Classmates, personal friends, family, co-workers, and the like. They Only Follow Brands and Celebrities They're Not Mobile. Listorious: Discover the Best Twitter Lists. Women Rule All Social Networks Except One » MakeUseOf.com.
Twittercal — tweet your google calendar. Twitpic - Share photos on Twitter. TwitVid - Share videos on Twitter. Foller.me - before you follow... Share Lists of Twitter Users | TweepML. Soft Skull Buys Novel Off Twitter - mediabistro.com: GalleyCat. Trend Tracker: Current and emerging Twitter trends presented to you by the forward-thinking Palm® Pre™. 10 People You Won’t See on Twitter Anymore. This week Twitter announced changes to its Terms of Service spelling out that you own your Tweets, and that Twitter can place ads next to your content. What's more, Twitter wants to crack down on spammers, bots and other bad behavior. The refreshed Twitter Rules that are a part of the new Terms of Service spell out a number of different reasons why you may find your Twitter account terminated.
Everything from inappropriate content and squatting to selling usernames could be cause for you to get the boot. Upon closer look we noticed that Twitter is closing the curtain on at least 10 types of Twitter users we see regularly attempt to game the service. Here are the 10 people we won't be hearing from anymore: 1. You know who you are. Twitter clearly spells out that "you may not impersonate others through the Twitter service in a manner that does or is intended to mislead, confuse, or deceive others. " 2. Robotic Twitter accounts should live in fear of death by the powers that be at Twitter. 3. Twitter for Organizations. Twitter for Organizations Right now you're probably thinking, "Oh, no, not ANOTHER Twitter® tutorial! " Well, yes, this IS a Twitter® tutorial, but we're going to dig a little deeper. We'll cover the basics, then move on to organizational uses and searching.
I'm hoping to impart some ideas and enthusiasm to friends in the library community as well as anyone else who might benefit. This tutorial takes for granted that the reader is already familiar with Twitter® and has a user account. For those who are not, and don't, a cheat sheet follows. Why use Twitter® at all? Twitter® creates a constant stream of updates from important sources. Organizational communication is fast changing due to social media. Twitter® Cheat Sheet Twitter® is what is known as a microblogging service.
Tweet: a 140-character or less post to a user account. To follow: a user follows others, which means that they see the tweets (status updates) of those individuals whom they have added to their Twitter® stream. Fun! LongURL | The Universal Way to Expand Shortened URLs. Seesmic. Twitter Zombies: 24% of Tweets Created by Bots. 24% of Tweets are created by automated bots, not humans, according to a recent study. Meanwhile, it was found that 5% of Twitter accounts generate 75% of Tweets. The "Inside Twitter" study, conducted last month by Sysomos, surprised researchers when they discovered that such a small number of accounts were generating so much of Twitter's content. Now, they've published in-depth data looking more closely at that highly-active 5% of the userbase.
The findings of the report are intriguing. For instance, many of these most active users are actually automated: We found that 32% of all tweets made by the most active Twitter users were generated by machine bots that posted more than 150 tweets/day. Based on its previous "Inside Twitter" study and this most recent report, Sysomos concludes that in total, 24% of Tweets are created by bots. Not All Bots are Spam However, that's not to say that 24% of Tweets are spam; far from it.
Why Teens Don’t Tweet. We struck a nerve with a lot of people this morning with our article Stats Confirm It: Teens Don't Tweet. In it, we explained how a recent Nielsen report shows that only 16 percent of Twitter users are under 25. The response was overwhelming - especially from teenagers who currently use Twitter. While the entire debate is a healthy one, there's been a lack of focus on the most important question of all: Why aren't teens using Twitter? The answer to this question is essential to not only understanding why Generation Y has not embraced microblogging, but to the very future of the medium.
Let's take a look at the statistics and the thoughts of my fellow under 25-ers to understand just why there's a shortage of teen tweeters: The Stats If you read our Teens Don't Tweet article, you'll come across two key stats: that 84% of Twitter users are over 24 years old, and that 90% of TweetDeck users are over that age as well. Even as far back as January, people were picking up on this trend. It's SO over: cool cyberkids abandon social networking sites | Media. From uncles wearing skinny jeans to mothers investing in ra-ra skirts and fathers nodding awkwardly along to the latest grime record, the older generation has long known that the surest way to kill a youth trend is to adopt it as its own. The cyberworld, it seems, is no exception. The proliferation of parents and teachers trawling the pages of Facebook trying to poke old schoolfriends and lovers, and traversing the outer reaches of MySpace is causing an adolescent exodus from the social networking sites, according to research from the media regulator Ofcom.
The sites, once the virtual streetcorners, pubs and clubs for millions of 15- to 24-year-olds, have now been over-run by 25- to 34-year-olds whose presence is driving their younger peers away. Although their love of being online shows no sign of abating, the percentage of 15- to 24-year-olds who have a profile on a social networking site has dropped for the first time – from 55% at the start of last year to 50% this year. Denial of Service Attack Knocks Twitter Offline (Updated) | Epicenter. Twitter was shut down for hours Thursday morning by what it described as an “ongoing” denial-of-service attack, silencing millions of Tweeters.
It was the first major outage the service has suffered in months and possibly the first ever due to sabotage. The outage appeared to begin mid-morning, EST, and affected users around the world. After about three hours, the service was coming back online in fits and starts (updated). The first official word about the outage came in a terse statement on Twitter’s status blog: “Site is down — We are determining the cause and will provide an update shortly.” “On this otherwise happy Thursday morning, Twitter is the target of a denial of service attack,” wrote Stone. In a denial-of-service attack, a malicious party barrages a server with so many requests that it can’t keep up, or causes it to reset. In the early minutes of the outage, we confirmed it in two New York boroughs and received word that it was down in Brazil as well. Stats Confirm It: Teens Don’t Tweet. If you're under 25 and use Twitter, you're not the source of the site's tremendous growth.
While we recently questioned the findings of a largely anecdotal report from Morgan Stanley written by a 15 year old, Nielsen has now produced figures that confirm the trend: young people don't Tweet. More precisely, Nielsen has compiled data from its NetRatings panel of 250,000 US Internet users and discovered that there are fewer young people on Twitter than on the Internet as a whole: one quarter of US Internet users are under 25, Nielsen says, but only 16% of Twitter users lie in that age range. While Nielsen is only measuring people who visit Twitter.com (not desktop and mobile clients), the analytics firm additionally claims that over 90% of TweetDeck users are over 25, making it unlikely that there are masses of uncounted young people on third-party Twitter apps. « 10 Stunning (And Useful) Stats About Twitter.
UPDATE: Follow me at @rohitbhargava if you liked this post! Last month a social media analytics provider named Sysomos released a comprehensive report on Twitter usage. The problem with most analysis on Twitter, though, is that it is limited by the minimal amount of data that Twitter collects. So, to fill the gaps, most reports do things like guessing gender based on real names or pulling data from keywords in people's biographic information.
This often yields some questionable results - and the Sysomos report is not immune to this (for example, they find that 65% of Twitter users are under the age of 25, but base this on only the 0.7% of users who actually disclose their age). Looking past these small points, the report does share some fairly interesting observations and stats as well if you dig a bit deeper. Here's my read on the 10 standout conclusions that the report offers to help you (and your brand) better understand the potential uses of Twitter: If the Twitter community was 100 people... Alltop, All the top Stories. Organizing for America | BarackObama.com | Tweet Your Senator. Ten Twitter Tips - Make Twitter Work for You | SociableBlog.com : Social Media Blog. Twitter for Beginners: 5 Steps for Better Tweeting. Twitter is immensely useful as a utility for joining in the global conversation and sharing thoughts, opinions, information, and media.
But for new users, there's also a fairly steep learning curve. For many people new to Twitter, the site doesn't immediately "make sense" and it can be a bit daunting. But there are things those users can do to make the service more useful from the get go. Below are five steps for new users to take in order to make the Twitter experience more enjoyable from the beginning. New users have both third party services and built-in tools at their disposal to make Twitter work for them, and this post highlights some of the best.
STEP ONE: Find People You Already Know The best tool available for new users directly on Twitter is the Find Friends on Other Networks tool, which lets people allow Twitter to scan their AOL, Yahoo! Another way to find friends is to check out the Twitter Facebook app and see if any of your friends on Facebook are also on Twitter. How Not to Tweet. Every once in awhile, a library follows me on Twitter. When they do, I usually check out their Twitter feed (but rarely follow them). And every once in awhile, I see something like this . This isn’t “Pick on MSJLibrary Day” – I’m sure they’re a fine library, and I commend them for jumping into Twitter to figure it out. But maybe this post will help other libraries as they work on figuring out social media sites like Twitter.
Named themselves with a form of their library’s name. Added a picture of their library Added a web link to their library website Their bio is great: “Helping You Research, Learn & Connect” Updates are locked/protected. Following the wrong people. I said their bio was great … but since they’re locked, it doesn’t make much sense – they can’t help you connect if you CAN”T connect! And I should say this – there’s nothing wrong with following me , CNN, ALA, or the National Geographic. Before you create an organizational account, do some planning and goal setting. Musicians on Twitter: 100+ Artists That Tweet. This post was co-authored by Cameron Chapman, who writes a blog at Cameronchapman.com and is @cameron_chapman on , and Alec Feld, who authors a blog at alecfeld.com and is @alecfeld on .
As the industry changes, so have the methods by which music is promoted. Traditional marketing is being replaced by artists and bands using social media sites like Twitter to engage fans, promote their work, and connect with others. The modern web and the future of the music industry seem almost inextricably intertwined in terms of marketing, listening, communicating, and purchasing. Twitter is one of the many ways for people to instantly and quickly communicate, and artists are taking advantage of its vast potential. Is your favorite artist tweeting? Here are over 100 musicians who tweet to keep fans and friends informed. 50 Cent - Rapper 50 Cent posts tons of links, retweets content (mostly about himself) and updates very regularly. Britney Spears - No introduction is needed for Britney.
D.A. Directors, Screenwriters and Actors on Twitter. #hashtags - What's happening right now on twitter. BBC - Newsbeat - Technology - Traffic rockets to Twitter site. Twistori. Working the Social: Twitter and FriendFeed - 6/15/2009 - Library Journal. TweetTabs : Realtime Twitter trends and Twitter search. 50 Ways to Use Twitter in the College Classroom | Online Colleges. Twitter has caught fire across many professional fields as well as personally, but it seems to be in the beginning stages in the realm of higher education. The creative ways Twitter users have incorporated microblogging has become inspirational, so the recent trend of using Twitter at college, including at online colleges, is sure to keep evolving into an ever more impressive tool.
Make sure you don’t get left behind by incorporating some of these educational and fun ways that Twitter can be used in the college classroom. Communication Twitter offers new and exciting ways to open up the lines of communication in the classroom. Direct Tweet. Class Projects and Discovering Content From learning how to use Twitter to finding useful information for class to practicing a foreign language, Twitter provides creative opportunities for learning.
Twitter-specific projects. Twitter Tools Twhirl. Finding People in Academia to Follow Twitter Professors: 18 People to Follow for a Real Time Education. TweetPsych. TweetReach: How Far Did Your Tweet Travel? Localtweeps :: Help Localize The Twittersphere! :: Home. How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live. Photo Download: Preview: The Twitterverse v0.9 by @BrianSolis & @Jess3. TwitterPacks / Public Media. Taking off the training wheels. Home > Archive > 2009 > May > 19 Tuesday, May 19, 2009 by Dave Winer. Technology loops, it follows a pattern that repeats, and we're in one of those loops right now. Here's how it goes. 1. Something new comes along. 2. 3. 4. 5. That's the loop. So then the question comes up, as we've been talking about now for years, what does the break-out from Twitter look like?
So... I'm thinking now that Twitter is this -- A very low ramp onto blogging, which itself was a low ramp onto publishing. For a guy like me, who mastered blogging long ago, Twitter is compelling because of the people. Plus if you believe the loop model, the best of the Twitter users, the ones who are doing the most interesting stuff with it, they're going to want more, soon. Earlier today I twitted: "I like the open web so much I'm willing to accept its limits. " Then a few hours later Larry Page hinted at the explosive breakout I'm looking for. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Just one little protocol to implement it. Oh happy day! "cheesecake" _spell (_spell) Listening On Twitter. StumbleTweets - Stumble what's happening on Twitter...right now! Twubs.