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74% of Twitter users have 10 tweets or less
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Re: 74% of Twitter users have 10 tweets or less
#12I just can't get bullish about Twitter for the long haul with mainstream adoption. I know I might get flamed for this, but I'm trying to give some observations: * Tech inclined, but non-industry friends just don't see the value of Twitter. The word pointless is used almost every time. * Those that try it leave very fast. That's where the 10 tweets per person seems to be about right. * The engagement just isn't there.…
My impression is that Facebook stole a lot of the potential Twitter thunder. For communicating among your Facebook friends, Facebook status updates are at least as good as Twitter, maybe better. A lot of my friends are on Facebook, more every day; far fewer are also using Twitter. IMHO Twitter is a tool for following interesting people who aren't close enough to you to be your friend in something like Facebook. But w…
I used the college kids example not as a "twitter is meant for younger people" example. It's the fact that college campuses are usually good predictors of technologies and apps that are gaining mainstream popularity. Ironically Facebook is growing heavily in the older segment, which is making the "Facebook stealing twitters thunder" even more important.
Another overlooked demographic of the twitter userbase is the urban segment. A ton of rappers use the service, hence bringing more fans. Go look at most of the hashtag trends on search.twitter ie- #whyursingle. Almost all of the responses are from an urban/black audience. I think there's some X Factor there, as it could turn twitter into something more mainstream. I don't know.
Re: 74% of Twitter users have 10 tweets or less
#13You'll see the same kind of ratio for almost any forum or website that people sign up for. I've been on a number of forums on which the median number of posts is one, and they're pretty lively, so this statistic doesn't mean much to me.
Re: 74% of Twitter users have 10 tweets or less
#14I just can't get bullish about Twitter for the long haul with mainstream adoption. I know I might get flamed for this, but I'm trying to give some observations: * Tech inclined, but non-industry friends just don't see the value of Twitter. The word pointless is used almost every time. * Those that try it leave very fast. That's where the 10 tweets per person seems to be about right. * The engagement just isn't there.…
The only compelling case for Twitter I've found so far are announcements from local merchants/organizations.
I follow some restaurants in my city, and it is useful for keeping tabs on specials and other happenings around me, but it's almost entirely useless for personal communication - Facebook does it better with more existing adoption.
Re: 74% of Twitter users have 10 tweets or less
#15The Pareto principle should apply to Twitter, as it does to many other things.
Re: 74% of Twitter users have 10 tweets or less
#16I just can't get bullish about Twitter for the long haul with mainstream adoption. I know I might get flamed for this, but I'm trying to give some observations: * Tech inclined, but non-industry friends just don't see the value of Twitter. The word pointless is used almost every time. * Those that try it leave very fast. That's where the 10 tweets per person seems to be about right. * The engagement just isn't there.…
The only compelling case for Twitter I've found so far are announcements from local merchants/organizations. I follow some restaurants in my city, and it is useful for keeping tabs on specials and other happenings around me, but it's almost entirely useless for personal communication - Facebook does it better with more existing adoption.
Facebook and local advertising is going to fuck shit up big time. Once local merchants know they can target: women 24-32 who are single like wine and live within 10 miles of your town. Yeah, that's going to be big.
I agree though, Twitter has an interesting case for local merchants.
Re: 74% of Twitter users have 10 tweets or less
#17This isn't surprising - what percentage of Wikipedia users actually contribute to Wikipedia? Probably less than 10%. What percentage of users actually comment on Hacker News? Probably not very high (I don't know, though).
You don't need all your users to be active to have a useful or viable product.
Facebook is an edge case - they have a huge percentage of active users.
Re: 74% of Twitter users have 10 tweets or less
#18The problem with Twitter is that they ALWAYS LOG YOU OUT.
ALL THE DAMN TIME!
What the HELL Twitter? I'd tweet a LOT more often if I didn't have to keep freaking logging in. GEEZ.
Re: 74% of Twitter users have 10 tweets or less
#19I just can't get bullish about Twitter for the long haul with mainstream adoption. I know I might get flamed for this, but I'm trying to give some observations: * Tech inclined, but non-industry friends just don't see the value of Twitter. The word pointless is used almost every time. * Those that try it leave very fast. That's where the 10 tweets per person seems to be about right. * The engagement just isn't there.…
The only compelling case for Twitter I've found so far are announcements from local merchants/organizations. I follow some restaurants in my city, and it is useful for keeping tabs on specials and other happenings around me, but it's almost entirely useless for personal communication - Facebook does it better with more existing adoption.
Breaking news/news photos (twitpic) depends on Twitter.
Also Twitter really facilitates adhoc, transient groups of "friends" such as SXSW, ACL, conference attendees or elections via hash tags.
Re: 74% of Twitter users have 10 tweets or less
#20From the article "Is it a communications utility a la Facebook or is it a media company?" IMHO It's neither. It's an asynchronous ecosystem that connect people based on affinity rather than friendship.
Bingo,
Facebook is about friends (and casual games). Twitter is about strangers. Who you might want as friends or at least have some common interest even if only temporarily such as both you looking for SXSW after parties.