Interesting Stats regarding Twitter

Found an interesting post, showing sound astounding facts about Twitter, and wanted to share with world. I have to say before you read the stats it is important to know that Twitter is just a tool in social media, Twitter has helped change the way we communicate. There will be something that comes and is better than Twitter, but people's desire for information at their disposal, from multiple authors is a trend that will continue forever.

Research by Sysomos Inc.

Authors: Alex Cheng, Mark Evans, and Harshdeep Singh

• 72.5% of all users joining during the first five months of 2009.
• 85.3% of all Twitter users post less than one update/day
• 21% of users have never posted a Tweet
• 93.6% of users have less than 100 followers, while 92.4% follow less than 100 people.
• 5% of Twitter users account for 75% of all activity
• New York has the most Twitters users, followed by Los Angeles, Toronto, San Francisco and Boston; while Detroit was the fast-growing city over the first five months of 2009
• More than 50% of all updates are published using tools, mobile and Web-based, other than Twitter.com. TweetDeck is the most popular non-Twitter.com tool with 19.7% market share.
• There are more women on Twitter (53%) than men (47%)
• Of people who identify themselves as social media marketers, 65.5% have never posted an update
• Of the people who identify themselves as marketers, 15% follow more than 2,000 people. This compares with 0.29% of overall Twitter users who follow more than 2,000 people.

The Appendix where this research was taken:

http://www.sysomos.com/insidetwitter/appendix