Belgians Thou Shall Twitter

Slide 1: Belgians, thou shall twitter Bruno Peeters twitterfacts.com

Slide 5: A few examples of Belgian Twitter users

Slide 14: Twitosphere Tools

Slide 22: Twitter publishing tools

Slide 24: Twitterfacts blog – published 12/10/2007

Slide 25: 31.944 Twitter messages on 2.087 Twitter accounts 1. web 60.77% 2. im 9.87% 3. Twitterrific 9.13% 4. txt 8.43% 5. Twitterfeed 2.80% 6. Netvibes 1.43% 7. TwitterFox 1.22% 8. Facebook 1.04% 9. TwitBin 0.98% 10. Twit 0.56% Twitterfacts blog – published 12/10/2007

Slide 26: 12.757 Twitter messages on 962 Belgian Twitter accounts 1. web 57,55% 2. Twitterrific 8,70% 3. im 8,26% 4. Twitterfeed 7,98% 5. Netvibes 2,92% 6. txt 2,73% 7. Tweetr 2,54% 8. TwitBin 1,87% 9. Facebook 1,70% 10. Snitter 0,94%

Slide 27: Twitter number of users

Slide 30: 45% 27% 13% 15%

Slide 31: Twitter user life cycle

Slide 32: newbie

Slide 33: Newbie • no updates • no friends • no following

Slide 34: early newbie leaver starter

Slide 35: Starter • a few following • a few followers • a few updates

Slide 36: Early leaver • no/few following •no/few followers • no/few updates •no recent updates

Slide 37: early newbie leaver starter typical user bot

Slide 38: Typical user • 15 Following • 17 followers • 260 updates • recent updates

Slide 39: Bot • many, many messages (automatically generated) • limited number of followers

Slide 40: early newbie leaver starter high typical influen- user tial star whale bot

Slide 41: Star • many messages • many followers

Slide 42: High Influential • limited number of messages • whole herd of followers

Slide 43: Whale • number of following exceeds many times the number of friends

Slide 44: Whale • number of following exceeds many times the number of friends

Slide 45: early newbie leaver dead starter high typical influen- user tial star whale bot

Slide 46: early newbie leaver 25% dead 3% starter 5% 30% high typical influen- user tial < 1% 35% star whale 2% bot < 1% < 1%