If Twitter was 100 People…

If Twitter Was 100 People...

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  1. Posted August 5, 2009 at 8:33 am | Permalink | Edit

    Ehh.. people with more then 100 followers?

  2. Arnold
    Posted August 6, 2009 at 7:21 am | Permalink | Edit

    Umm.. I don’t think there can be more than 100 followers if the maximum number of people is 100

  3. Posted August 6, 2009 at 12:44 pm | Permalink | Edit

    These kind of stats are always flawed as just the maths of this, it is obvious that a tiny amount of people will produce the most stuff purely because of percentages

  4. Kyle
    Posted August 7, 2009 at 4:53 pm | Permalink | Edit

    We have to keep in mind this is statistical assimilation. What I find truly interesting is the breakdown of the 80/20 rule. I would have suspected a full 20 to 30 people would be required to reach 70 to 80 percent of the tweets. I wonder if there is a way to account for the jump off of the 80/20 rule. If twitter was 100 people big how many people would equate to 100 followers?

  5. Posted September 1, 2009 at 4:21 am | Permalink | Edit

    Humans do not change, technology just adapts to us.

  6. Posted October 1, 2009 at 3:15 pm | Permalink | Edit

    And the 20 grey ones are ??

    Am I missing something?

    R!

  7. Posted October 25, 2009 at 7:27 pm | Permalink | Edit

    How can 5 have more than 100 followers if the grand total is 100?
    What about the grey people?
    I don’t see a solid rational behind this picture, it’s easily discussable.

    Antonio

  8. Lynn
    Posted November 2, 2009 at 11:02 pm | Permalink | Edit

    20 people aren’t on Twitter (like myself), that makes it so 80% of the people are using Twitter, 20% are not = 80/20 rule

  9. Mr._Pseudonym
    Posted November 4, 2009 at 11:03 am | Permalink | Edit

    The gray ones are the folks who don’t fit into the other categories. That is, their accounts aren’t empty/dead, so they aren’t pink. They have tweeted in the last week, so they aren’t lazy/green. They have fewer than one hundred followers, so they aren’t blue, and they aren’t the loud mouths/purple who create seventy-five percent of the tweets.

    However, the graph doesn’t allow for overlap. Who’s to say that those with more than one hundred followers cannot double as those who create more than seventy-five percent of the tweets? It’s possible, (even expected, in fact,) for some folks to belong in both groups, but the chart doesn’t accomodate such details.

  10. Posted November 6, 2009 at 5:30 am | Permalink | Edit

    Let’s make this visualization about books – the most successful media ever – and you won’t find even 1 “loud mouth”, and even less 30 having published last week… So let’s not get too excited about this statistics. Twitter is not only writing but also reading…

  11. Posted November 8, 2009 at 10:01 am | Permalink | Edit

    Stats may vary, but truly appreciate the information representation!! Good thought…

  12. Zach Stillwell
    Posted November 12, 2009 at 10:38 am | Permalink | Edit

    I don’t understand why everyone is so negative. All he is saying is that 5 percent of people on twitter create 75 percent of the tweets (there probably is a correlation with the 5 percent that have more than a hundred followers). 20 percent generate absolutely no tweets. A whopping 50 percent haven’t tweeted in the last week… which leaves you with a mere 20 percent of what might be called average users, that is those that fit no other categories, who are in fact only 20 percent. But this twenty percent is most likely the backbone of twitter. Consider this. If 20 percent don’t fit the other categories, then most likely they represent the majority of followers for those with more than 100, and just as likely the readers of all those tweets produced by the lowly 5 percent. So its a strikingly strong suggestion of the 80/20 rule, or thereabouts. And it helps illustrate why even though it seems like EVERYONE is tweeting, the actual percentages deny this. I have never used twitter by the way. Facebook wastes enough of my time.

  13. Posted January 6, 2010 at 10:53 pm | Permalink | Edit

    Очень понравилась статья, только кое-что хотелось бы уточнить 5ф

  14. Posted January 7, 2010 at 8:21 am | Permalink | Edit

    Узнал много интересного и жду ещё 5р

  15. Posted January 7, 2010 at 7:31 pm | Permalink | Edit

    Мне понравился стиль автора 3ы

  16. Posted January 7, 2010 at 9:05 pm | Permalink | Edit

    Очень понравилась статья, но кое-что не совсем понял 4п

  17. Posted January 7, 2010 at 10:33 pm | Permalink | Edit

    Понравился стиль автора, жду ещё статей 4п

  18. Posted January 8, 2010 at 8:10 am | Permalink | Edit

    Хорошо пишете, мне понравилось 5р

  19. Posted January 8, 2010 at 10:17 am | Permalink | Edit

    С нетерпением жду следующих статей 4ж

  20. Posted January 8, 2010 at 8:21 pm | Permalink | Edit

    Читал с удовольствием, очень советую 4э

  21. Posted January 8, 2010 at 11:35 pm | Permalink | Edit

    Понравился стиль автора 4ы

  22. Posted January 9, 2010 at 9:36 am | Permalink | Edit

    Очень понравились статьи, только не все понял 5х

  23. Posted January 9, 2010 at 12:07 pm | Permalink | Edit

    Прикольно пишете, жду следующих статей 4д

  24. Posted January 9, 2010 at 3:20 pm | Permalink | Edit

    Некоторые моменты не понял, но интересный материал 5л

  25. Posted January 9, 2010 at 6:47 pm | Permalink | Edit

    Много интересного узнал 3д

  26. Posted January 9, 2010 at 9:54 pm | Permalink | Edit

    Интересно автор пишет, только некоторые моменты хотел уточнить 4ф

  27. Posted January 10, 2010 at 8:08 am | Permalink | Edit

    Прикольно автор подобрал материал 3а

  28. Posted January 10, 2010 at 2:26 pm | Permalink | Edit

    Очень понравились статьи 3д

  29. Posted January 10, 2010 at 6:15 pm | Permalink | Edit

    Взял в закладки, хорошая подборка 2ф

  30. Posted January 10, 2010 at 9:39 pm | Permalink | Edit

    Респект автору, мне очень понравилось 2ф

  31. Posted January 11, 2010 at 5:10 am | Permalink | Edit

    Хорошую подборку сделал автор блога 1и

  32. Posted January 11, 2010 at 8:40 am | Permalink | Edit

    Отличную подборочку сделал автор, взял на заметку 2й

  33. Posted January 11, 2010 at 11:53 am | Permalink | Edit

    Утащил в закладки, интересно пишет автор 5х

  34. Posted January 11, 2010 at 3:22 pm | Permalink | Edit

    Буду почаще заглядывать в этот блог, отличная подборка 4в

  35. Posted January 11, 2010 at 4:01 pm | Permalink | Edit

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  38. Posted January 11, 2010 at 8:27 pm | Permalink | Edit
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  42. Mark Grady
    Posted February 23, 2010 at 2:23 pm | Permalink | Edit

    I’d love to see this updated seeing as Twitter are now claiming 50 million tweets a day now.

  43. TraceyLea
    Posted May 21, 2010 at 7:37 am | Permalink | Edit

    35 of the people would be tweeting about Justin Beiber :p

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