50% of Twitter content is generated by less than 1% of service users

I don’t know how successful this headline is, but it conveys the meaning of the news quite accurately - there are very few users on the microblogging service Twitter that actually generate content. Experts say that less than 1% of Twitter users of their total number (190 million people) produce more than half of all content on the service. You will be surprised, but “less than 1%” is only 0.05% of users. Thus, out of all these hundreds of millions, only 20 thousand people actively communicate and create content.

At the same time, top bloggers like Charlie Sheen (the top - in the sense, with the maximum number of followers) have no relation to this share of “useful for society” users. The most “productive” tweeters are journalists, bloggers, authors, who are called “elite” community members in the study. Probably, the same situation is observed on many services, but still such a small number of active users cannot but surprise. By the way, research on Twitter was carried out by specialists from Cornell University and Yahoo Research.

In his reportexperts also say that there are very few top bloggers on twitter with regular bloggers: "celebrities listen to celebrities, bloggers listen to bloggers." And it’s precisely the bloggers, according to analysts, who are the representatives of the most influential group in the service, since it is they who produce the lion's share of content on Twitter.

The study, experts say, helps to better understand how people communicate using modern services. Twitter itself, according to the initiators of the study, looks more like a center for the exchange of information between communities and individual users - in this regard, there are quite a lot of differences between social networks and Twitter, which is also considered a social network.

Via Yahoo