Following and adding friends via Facebook, and Twitter is fine. Following a small group of close friends is fun. But following a large group of friends is no fun. And that too, at places like twitter, keeping up with the tweets is a challenge by itself. Twitter through its blog has made it official about the new list feature which is soon to launch. These lists would help group the tweets into the service itself rather than using third party apps to group and better follow the tweets. Developers too, can enjoy the accompanying Lists API that will be made avilable. The lists is under limited testing and would be available soon.
Read more at WebWorkerDaily.
Also, the world of tweets keep growing everyday. Lets take a look at some stats on twitter published by Sysomos:
- “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 (see the report on analysis of top-5% users)
- 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 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. ” – Source: sysomos.
Lets take a look at some visual statistics: (For more visit here: Sysomos)
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