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44% of Twitter Users Have Never Tweeted

Posted by samzenpus on from the 140-characters-to-go dept.

First time accepted submitter RileyWalz (3614865) writes "Twopcharts (a third party website that records and monitors activity on Twitter) is reporting that about 44 percent of all 947 million accounts on Twitter have never posted a single tweet. Of the 550 million users who have tweeted before, 43 percent posted their last tweet over a year ago. And only about 13.3 percent have tweeted in the last 30 days. This could be a sign of many users just signing up and forgetting about their account, or they just prefer reading other's posts. Twitter is not commenting on this data, saying that they do not talk about third-party information related to its service."

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  1. Probably typical by Chrisq · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Most will have signed up, thought it crap, and never returned. Most people don't delete dead accounts and counting them as "users" is as false as counting someone as driving a Toyota if they once took a test drive.

    1. Re:Probably typical by buchner.johannes · · Score: 4, Insightful

      No, what it means is that the majority of accounts are bots, created to increase follower-numbers.

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    2. Re:Probably typical by Johann+Lau · · Score: 5, Informative

      No, it means both.

    3. Re:Probably typical by penix1 · · Score: 4, Interesting

      And a third group people are totally forgetting.... Parents and students where the schools has said it will use Twitter to tell them of emergencies. They get the account solely to receive these notices.

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    4. Re:Probably typical by shri · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Most people are consumers of tweets. They follow people, click through their links / updates etc. If you look at forums and other community media, you'll see that getting >10% of users to contribute is actually VERY good.

    5. Re:Probably typical by ildon · · Score: 4, Insightful

      There's a third type of person who never tweets. One that essentially uses Twitter as an RSS feed, news aggregator, and/or joke-a-day (or joke-a-five-minutes) feed. They could still be considered "active" users, in that they use the service, but don't feel the need to post.

    6. Re:Probably typical by hodet · · Score: 3, Interesting

      You don't need to tweet for twitter to be useful. Many people follow others or use it to keep on top of things. For example, if there is a minor earthquake somewhere there is no better place to really find out what happened quickly than twitter. "Holy crap, #EARTHQUAKE, shook the building for 30 seconds"

  2. Too easy by kruach+aum · · Score: 4, Funny

    I wish the other 56% didn't either.

  3. In other news... by Joce640k · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In other news: 44% of Slashdot readers have never posted a single comment.

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    1. Re:In other news... by Monsieur_F · · Score: 5, Funny

      In other news: 82% of Slashdot readers have never read a single article.

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    2. Re:In other news... by marcello_dl · · Score: 4, Funny

      In other news, 100% of facebook users have never booked a face.

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  4. This is nothing when compared... by ctrl-alt-canc · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...to the fact that about 85% of world population does not use Twitter!

  5. Here's why I did so. by Simulant · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I signed up and never posted simply to use twitter credentials on other web sites.