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Less than 50% of Twitter users tweet from Twitter.com

November 18th, 2009

Market Share of Twitter Clients

A Sysomos (a social media analytics firm) study confirms that only 46 percent of Twitter users use Twitter.com to Tweet, with Tweetdeck being the first client with a market share of 8.5% :

“So, how do you use Twitter? That’s the question we wanted to answer with our latest report focused on the applications to use Twitter. We analyzed a sample of more than 500 million tweets collected over the past five months to determine the most popular applications to use Twitter,” the social media analytics firm wrote

The study found that Twitter.com was, by far, the most popular way of posting a tweet, with 46 percent of the users preferring it. TweetDeck comes in a distant second place, with just 8.48 percent, followed by the popular iPhone apps Tweetie and Twitterific, with 2.83 percent and 1.63 percent, respectively. Seesmic, which has just launched a windows client, came in fifth, with 1.11 percent.

In Sysomos’ last report, Twitter.com was employed by 45.7 percent of the users, so the website managed to keep its market share, but the TweetDeck use plummeted from 19.7 percent. In the meantime, the number of Twitter users has actually dropped in the US, but has continued to rise elsewhere.

Most Twitter users are happy employing just one app, 82 percent, while 14 percent employ two apps. Only 2.35 percent use thee apps at the same time. The choice of the client is also related to how engaged the users are, as the TweetDeck ones are the most active, with 1.24 tweets per day. Twitter.com users only tweet 0.67 times per day. While the stats themselves are interesting, the thing to take away from this is that, while the biggest chunk of Twitter users goes to the site to get updated, more than half of them, 54 percent, use third-party apps.

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OneForty, An App Store for Twitter

October 11th, 2009

“Platform”, “API“, “App Store“, amazing the hot trends that appeared in the last years, pushed by companies like Facebook (and its F8 platform), Twitter (with their open API) and Apple (with THE App Store that everyone is talking about).

Here comes OneForty (for 140 charachters if you’re wondering why). It now seems normal to now have an app store for Twitter apps. Oneforty launched end of September, edited by Twitter for Dummies author Laura Fitton. Not really a store, as everything is free, but a good directory of the existing apps.

Twitter already has its own directory, but done on an editorial basis, and not refreshed in real-time, so OneForty should prove more useful.

Oneforty list all apps per category, developers can claim their apps, users can comment, rate and share the apps that they’re using (by signing in with your Twitter credentials)

Categories include:

Desktop: Tweetdeck leading, followed by Tweetie for Mac (which tells that Twitterers are geeky and Mac users)
Mobile: Tweetie (iPhone), Twidroid (Android), Echofon (iPhone)
Business: HootSuite, CoTweet
Monitoring/Search
Networking
Analytics
Media sharing: Twitpic
Link tools: Bit.ly, TweetMeme, Twitterfeed

Should Twitter Buy Oneforty? (techcrunch.com)
Tweetie 2 is now on the App Store (tuaw.com)
Twitter Needs An App Store, Oneforty Provides One (techcrunch.com)

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Best Twitter clients

September 30th, 2009

LifeHacker lists their 5 best Twitter clients – based on their readers votes, which means the vote is biased (lots of geeks reading LifeHacker!)

TweetDeck (Adobe AIR app + iPhone)
Brizzly (web app, invitation only)
Seesmic (Adobe AIR app + web app)
Tweetie (Mac + iPhone)
DestroyTwitter

We would personally have added EchoFon (Mac + iPhone + Firefox extension) that is very light, with a clean interface, that’s all you need for 140 characters, no ?

Copy/pasting their comments below:

TweetDeck (Windows/Mac/Linux/iPhone, Free)

TweetDeck boasts the ability to monitor multiple social-networking services, in this case Twitter, Facebook, and Myspace. You can fight Twitter spam with a built-in spam monitor, follow topics with saved searches, and preview shortened URLs from within TweetDeck. You can use TweetDeck to manage multiple Twitter accounts from one interface and thanks to web-based TweetDeck accounts you can back up and sync your TweetDeck profile across multiple machines.

Brizzly (Web-Based, Free)

If you’ve been reading over the various Twitter clients in today’s Hive Five and thinking “I don’t want some fancy application, I just want the actual Twitter web site to be more functional!”, then you’ll definitely want to check out Brizzly. The first thing that strikes you after logging into your Brizzly account is how similar it is to the actual Twitter interface—except vastly improved. Shortened URLs are automatically expanded, links to pictures and videos are automatically thumb-nailed and easy to preview. The left and right navigation columns are fixed, so as you scroll through the tweets you never lose sight of useful links. Brizzly is a super-charged version of the Twitter web interface. One thing, if you’re ready to try Brizzly out. You’ll need an invitation to the service. Fortunately invitations aren’t hard to come by, Twitter is buzzing with them. Search Twitter with this link and check out invitations until you find one with an active use left.

Seesmic (Web-Based/Windows/Mac, Free)

Seesmic not only has a diverse platform base—you can use it on the web, on your PC or Mac, and on your iPhone [Oops! The iPhone app is still under development.]—but you can also use it not only for keeping up on Twitter, but Facebook too. The Seesmic desktop application, built on Adobe Air, is quite configurable. You can specify which URL shortening and image hosting services you want to use, what kind of notifications you receive, how large of an event timeline Seesmic will build, and how you want all that information displayed. Video and pictures can be inserted into and shared directly from Seesmic.

Tweetie (Mac/iPhone, Free)

Tweetie definitely has the most interactive GUI of any of the Twitter clients in today’s Hive. On top of features like threaded conversations and direct messages, you can grab pieces of your Twitter stream and pull them right off. See a topic you’re interested in keeping an eye on? You can pull it right off into a separate window. Want more than one reply window to compose multiple messages? Not a problem. Tweetie is free—but ad-supported—you can pay $19.95 to get an ad-free version.

DestroyTwitter (Windows/Mac/Linux, Free)

DestroyTwitter is a very compact Twitter client that has a very IM-window kind of appearance. Everything is presented, by default, in one column which can be cycled through various views via the buttons along the top and bottom of the window—Home, Replies, Saved searches, for example. You can expand DestroyTwitter to present multiple columns at once and give it an appearance more similar to some of the other Twitter clients available, but many people prefer the simple and compact one column default. DestroyTwitter supports URL expansion and thumbnails, but it isn’t readily apparent. Hold down the ALT key while mousing over items you want to expand.