Comments on: State of the Edmonton Twittersphere – July 2009

By: Mack D. Male

Mack D. Male — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:23:36 +0000

I’ll look into that Glenn.

Yes, numindan is correct…some of the private tweets are included in the 19,1999, but not all of them.

By: Glenn

Glenn — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:12:00 +0000

Neat little snapshot of the Twitter landscape in Edmonton. Would love to see some more stats specific to outlying cities like St. Albert, Sherwood Park, etc. I don’t mind that they’re included as part of Edmonton for general purposes, but I wouldn’t mind seeing them broken out a bit more, i.e. how many times the #stalbert hashtag was used in the month.

By: Brittney

Brittney — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:58:47 +0000

sspidey and donutsmile both seem like bots. I would rather see Mack’s name on the list.

Thanks again Mack, these are a definite highlight of my month!

By: bingofuel

bingofuel — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:55:53 +0000

So humble!

Thanks for putting these numbers together, Mack. Always a very interesting read.

By: numindan

numindan — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:46:24 +0000

Perhaps you may want to mention that your data set *may* be skewed due to those users who have their tweets set to private. These users would appear if you searched for users based on geography, but their tweets don’t appear in any of the public streams.

Unless, of course, the following comment is meant to cover that off:

“A total of 19,199 tweets were pulled from user timelines directly because they did not exist in Twitter Search.”

By: thinkswan

thinkswan — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:23:46 +0000

twoosh == 140-char tweet

http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=twoosh

By: Mack D. Male

Mack D. Male — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:20:00 +0000

A twoosh is a tweet containing exactly 140 characters. It’s the nothing-but-net of Twitter

By: daveberta

daveberta — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:15:30 +0000

Thanks for putting this numbers together each month, Mack!

If I may ask, what’s a ‘twoosh?’

By: Mack D. Male

Mack D. Male — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:09:22 +0000

I know…he does have a few real updates though too, so there is a person behind it! But yes, most updates are just from a bot.

That said, I’m next on the most active list, and I didn’t think I needed to be mentioned again

By: bingofuel

bingofuel — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:08:01 +0000

I really don’t think you should include @sspidey as one of the most active local users… it’s just a bot tweeting iPhone locations, near as I can tell…