Twitter's 90/10 Rule

After examining my own Twitter account (721 days old) this holds true - 90% of tweets are from 13% of people I follow. More painful is that 70% of tweets are contributed by 4% of my followers. And if you break that 70% down, 36% are from 3 automated sources (news sources) and the other 34% is by one human who has tweeted over 200 times in the past 8 days. I am unfollowing that 4% now.

vastandgrand:

“After examining some 300,000 Twitter accounts, a Harvard Business School professor reported last week that 10 percent of the service’s users account for more than 90 percent of tweets.”

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Orphaned Tweets: When people sign up for Twitter, post once, then never return.

Slate By John Swansburg and Jeremy Singer-Vine