Note: The following Twitter Facts are based on the presentation available at Website Monitoring Blog.  There’s a lot more information at their blog, if you’re interested.

Twitter Facts:

  • Twitter has 175 employees.
  • Thousands of developers have created more than 70,000 apps using Twitter API.
  • There are more than 106 Million accounts on Twitter and that number grows by 300,000 every day.
  • 180 Million unique visitors generate more than 3 Billion requests each day.
  • Twitter users send 55 Million tweets per day, which equals 640 tweets per second!
  • Thursday and Friday are the most active days.
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    Here’s where it really gets interesting!

  • Only 20% have tweeted 10 or more times.
  • 41% have not tweeted since they created their account.
  • 27% of messages are private conversations.
  • 30% are what they’re doing.
  • 10% are links to news and blog articles. (wonder if that went up with the challenge!)
  • 6% are politics, sports or current events.
  • 4% are product recommendations or complaints.
  • 4% is spam (hard to believe that’s all!)
  • 4% are advertisements.
  • 61% are English.
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    In the U.S:

  • 55% are Female.
  • 45% are Male.
  • 45% are 18-34 years old.
  • 24% are 35-49 years old.
  • 14% are 50+
  • 18% are 17 and under.

This is not only interesting (in my opinion) but it’s also excellent social marketing information.

I didn’t find anything that specified how much time the average Twitter user spends there, though (if there is such a thing as an average user).  How much time do you fritter away on Twitter per day or week?

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