The StatBot

ReadWriteWeb reported on the popular twitter clients some time ago. It got us this beautiful, Office 2007 generated chart that neatly summarized everything:

Now, here is another Office 2007 generated chart, showing the Twitter Client usage of “Twitter Power Users” (i.e those who had enough followers to be on the Twitterific Top 100 list). Note that I’ve kicked out Bots and other non-humans (ET & DarthVader included) to make it more accurate. Also, note that this represents “ALL” the tweets of those power users.

Both the charts look extremely similar, don’t they?

Now, since RWW’s dataset was pretty randomly chosen, I can consider their data to represent the “typical” twitter user, while mine represents the “power” users.

Key takeaways

• “Web”, ie http://twitter.com takes a large amount of the pie. This is because:
  • Most people find the web interface adequate
  • AND, many of the ‘power users’ were early adopters of twitter, using it even before any of the usable clients came along
• SMS Text Messages are waay more popular among the Power Users than the normal ones.
• Twitterific is more popular among the power users (presumably Apple Addicts™)…
• ….while Twhirl is more popular among the ‘typical’ users.
• Mobile Twitter (http://m.twitter.com) is way more popular among twitter power users than the typical users.
• Note that many services used by the power users, such as Dave Winer’s TwiterGram, Snitter, TwitterFeed (which pulls blog posts into your twitter feed) and Hahlo (Twitter Client for the iPhone) are missing from the typical users’ list.
• Also, many services popular in RWW’s list, such as Twit and Twitterfox, are totally absent here.

Top 20

Here’s the list of Top 20 clients, along with their ranks and number of tweets:

Note how the first one(Web) has more than a hundred thousand tweets, while the last, Mobile Twitter, has only a hundred.

More data from this corpus coming soon! (If you need this corpus of about two hundred thousand tweets from top tweeters, email me and I’ll send it over)

Tags: power users, Twitter

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