innovation is not doing extra-ordinary things, its doing ordinary things in extra-ordinary ways. Twitter, is the latest in this endeavor. The service has done amazingly well here are some stats from Hubspot’s Mike Volpe (@mvolpe) in a report he calls State of the Twittersphere.
- Twitter is dominated by newer users – 70% of Twitter users joined in 2008
- An estimated 5-10 thousand new accounts are opened per day
- 35% of Twitter users have 10 or fewer followers
- 9% of Twitter users follow no one at all
- There is a strong correlation between the number of followers you have and the number of people you follow
- More than 50% are females
- Almost 50% between 18-34
- 73% do not have children
- 63% have college education or more
With an estimated monthly traffic of 2.4 million (US only) twitter is all set to take over the interwebs.
demographics: transcending many demographic profiles is a great way for a service to become mainstream, with the simple model of twitter it is welcoming to everyone. Here is the Quantcast demographic website profile for twitter.
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