Comments on: All Birds Must Land Twitter Included

By: Mark Evans

Mark Evans — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:57:30 +0000

Tom,

As Gravatar mentioned above, we issued our “Inside Twitter” report (sysomos.com/insidetwitter) last week, which looks at Twitters’s growth and how people are using Twitter. It’s pretty interesting to see how a lot of people are checking out Twitter but not necessarily using it on a regular basis. Meanwhile, a small group of people are extremely active.

Mark

By: Frank J

Frank J — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:28:23 +0000

Tom,

Thank you for the comment and share. I will check it out.

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:07:42 +0000

Frank, you may like the recent report, Inside Twitter. This report has analyzed 11.5 million twitter users. See http://www.sysomos.com/insidetwitter/ (specially the appendix if you like stats).

By: Kikolani

Kikolani — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:11:27 +0000

Twitter, like any other social network, is only as good as it’s members, or at least the members you associate with. The people that I know who really enjoy Twitter are those that only follow a select few people – something which doesn’t work for those trying to gain a large following because of all those who do not follow those who do not follow back. And the only real way to know people will see your tweets is if your followers aren’t following a lot of other people either.

The spamming can happen to any network. Once their size grows, the spammers see the opportunity to get more exposure, and off they will go. New networks stay clean for a while, but sadly, not forever.

~ Kristi

By: Frank J

Frank J — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:17:28 +0000

John,

I thought the same about AOL. This is a lot different from AOL. Thanks for the props John!

By: John Sullivan

John Sullivan — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:47:18 +0000

Those Super amazing way to talented people should of got paid while they had the chance
The site is definitely an extraordinary phenomena but I used to think the same of AOL like 20 yrs ago. I don’t hate twitter but I think it’s basically useless the same can be said of facebook. From both I have met ZERO cool bloggers.
Seems like all the cool people I was supposed to meet have been met
Anyway who cares about twitter I must say Frank that I have to give you some props for the content of this post.
thanks for being a cool dude and your friendship

By: SBA

SBA — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:56:15 +0000

I just started tweeting, but today I had to block someone who found me on Tweetmondo — she had registered there to find people ‘close to her’. I guess she’s looking for clients since her business is ‘international companion’ and webcam/phone sessions. With only 10 followers I also had to tell another person to stop spamming the same website with different tinyurls — as if we might not notice… Definitely one of the 10% sending 98% of my traffic! lol
So Twitter can consume your time the way spam does. It becomes a turnoff for those people trying to figure it out.

By: Jonathan - Advanced Life Skills

Jonathan - Advanced Life Skills — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:47:12 +0000

I think it was inevitable. If you could flush all the spammers it would be a different ballgame, but of course that can’t be done. Every new trend goes through stages, social media is in a filtering stage. Facebook remains king, the rest will have to work it out.