Have you seen the State of Twittersphere report that was issued last month by HubSpot? The report was generated by gathering data from the more than 600,000 Twitter profiles tracked on Twitter Grader (approximately seven to eight percent of the Twitter population).
Some key statistics reaffirm the Malcolm Gladwell-based influencer theory many use for blogger and influencer relations in general. Only 5 percent of all Twitter users have more than 250 followers, and only 0.8 percent have more than 1,000. Forty six percent have less than 25 followers.
The report also reaffirmed how hot Twitter is becoming. Seventy percent of Twitter users joined in 2008, and 20 percent of Twitter users have joined in the past 60 days.
Those numbers will slowly start to grow though. Within those numbers, do they take into account which users are active and which aren’t? Many of the users with very few followers may not have been active in weeks, months.
Twitter is getting mainstream, that’s it! Do you think we will see a big split between the common use and the geek use?
@Guillaume I think you already see a huge split between common use and geek use. Compare how active the geeks are to casual users as well as how many people they are following and how many followers they have. I think right now the non geeks use it more as a way to connect with others they know, instead of the geeks who are connecting with anybody.