June 30, 2009 at 13:54126 followers each
Twitter lead programmer Evan Weaver, during his presentation at the QCon 2009 conference (which was dedicated to optimizing the key components of Twitter), published the latest statistics on the service.
Of the interesting numbers - the number of followers in the average user, which looks unusually large: as many as 126 people. Apparently, this is the arithmetic mean, which does not quite reflect the real picture. In fact, the vast majority of users probably have no more than a couple of dozen followers, that is, the geometric mean is located approximately in that area.
Another interesting figure - it turns out that only 20% of Twitter users go to the official website. The rest publish messages from a mobile phone or through a separate client program.
At peak moments six months ago (during Obama's presentation), 300 tweets per second were posted on the site. Now the peaks are much higher. Evan posted the
presentation slides on his blog.
Of the interesting numbers - the number of followers in the average user, which looks unusually large: as many as 126 people. Apparently, this is the arithmetic mean, which does not quite reflect the real picture. In fact, the vast majority of users probably have no more than a couple of dozen followers, that is, the geometric mean is located approximately in that area.
Another interesting figure - it turns out that only 20% of Twitter users go to the official website. The rest publish messages from a mobile phone or through a separate client program.
At peak moments six months ago (during Obama's presentation), 300 tweets per second were posted on the site. Now the peaks are much higher. Evan posted the
presentation slides on his blog.