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By: Wayne Mansfield

Wayne Mansfield — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:12:25 +0000

I have noticed a drop in the number of people who follow links from my tweets… down from 400 plus to 100 plus… these usually represent active users who have decided not to visit twitter as often or who have moved to Facebook for the “conversation”

The number of false accounts seems to be an issue too… @KevinRuddPM have 70% “spammy” accounts following him???

And I would presume that traffic from 3rd parties would represent a huge volume as nearly everyone who inetracts with me uses a third party application to access Twitter – I use @peoplebrowsr @Socialoomp @pingfm

OMG comment – twitter needs to refocus on user generated issues and not try to steal those enhancements… recently they have changed the “feel” of retweeting and it hasn’t been well accepted.

By: Clark Fredricksen

Clark Fredricksen — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:23:41 +0000

Via Debra aho Williamson at The eMarketer Blog:

While it’s valuable to look at Twitter’s Web traffic, the true picture won’t emerge until all the third-party traffic from mobile phones and API clients is accounted for. And it’s likely sizeable. According to Crowd Science’s August 2009 survey of Twitter users worldwide, while 71% said they primarily accessed Twitter via the Web, 26% said their primary way of accessing Twitter was via a third-party application. And of people with only one Internet-connected device, just 10% use Twitter or another status update service, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project’s recent report. But among people who have at least four Internet-connected devices (such as a mobile phone or game console in addition to a PC), 39% use Twitter or another status update service. PingDom data says that US Twitter users sent an average of 27.3 million tweets per day during the three weeks ended Nov. 11. While that data doesn’t say anything about the number of users Twitter has, it does show that they are quite active. (No word on what percentage of the tweets were spam, however.)

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By: Fionn Downhill

Fionn Downhill — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:15:25 +0000

Too much crap now. I rarely log in. I am just as guility as everybody else I tweeted enough crap of my own. I still think twitter is much better for business than personal. I could care less if somebody is in Starbucks even if it is Demi Moore and she has just had her end away with the gorgeous Ashton Kutcher. I think they should charge a fee for use and be done with it.

By: searchengineman

searchengineman — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:55:09 +0000

OMFG, Does this mean I have to find something new to write about
I don’t think this looks as bad as BINGS launch. In fact you need some good
shock absorbers to ride that slope! Or spikey boots to arrest the slide.

Searchengineman