State of the Calgary Twittersphere 2012 – Users & Clients

This is the second part in my State of the Calgary Twittersphere for 2012 – you can read the overview post here. As we saw in that entry, more than 105,000 local users posted at least one tweet in 2012. Let’s take a closer look at users and the tools they used to post tweets.

While a large number of users posted at least one tweet throughout the year, there are fewer users who post something in any given month. Keeping in mind that November is underrepresented in this chart, we can see that October had the most active users at nearly 60,000, and the trend is very clearly going up.

There are a small number of really active users, and a much larger number of less active users. In 2012, the top 100 most active users accounted for about 1.7 million or 9.0% of all local tweets.

Here are the 25 most active users:

Here are the 5 most active bots or automated feeds:

Combined, the top 30 users accounted for about 5.1% of all local tweets.

Here are the 25 most active users using #yyc:

Here are the 5 most active bots or automated feeds using #yyc:

The top 100 most active users using #yyc and related tags accounted for less than 1.0% of all local tweets, and 24.8% of all #yyc-tagged tweets.

Here are the 25 most replied to users (by other local users):

Those 25 users accounted for 7.2% of all local replies. The top 100 most replied to local users accounted for 1.5% of all local tweets and 15.2% of all local replies.

I think the retweet is one of the most valuable metrics on Twitter. Anyone can post a lot, or gain a lot of followers, but to get retweeted by lots of other people you need to be useful/interesting/funny/inspiring/etc.

Here are the 25 most retweeted non-individual users:

Here are the 25 most retweeted individual users:

A total of 44 users were retweeted by other local users 1000 times or more. Just 5 users were retweeted more than 5000 times, and @nenshi was the only individual in that group. Just @calgaryherald was retweeted more than 10,000 times.

I did not keep track of the most followed users this year, primarily because the information is readily available elsewhere. If you want to know who the most followed users in Calgary are, check out Twopcharts.

Clients

More than 4200 different applications and services were used to post tweets in 2012. For the first time since I have been tracking stats, the web is no longer the top dog! Here are the top ten:

The top ten clients accounted for 81.1% of all local tweets posted in 2012.

Coming Up

http://twitter.com/MisterYYC John Smiley

Fascinating information, Mack! Thank you for all the work that you have to do to gather this info.
- http://blog.mastermaq.ca Mack D. Male
  
  My pleasure, thanks for reading!
http://twitter.com/annemaccat Anne

WoW! That is a lot of very interesting info! I never expected to see my name on any kind of list for yyc twitter users. If you did a breakdown of tweeters after midnight you’d see my name there too. Thank you for all the work you did in compiling this report for the Calgary Twitter World.
- http://blog.mastermaq.ca Mack D. Male
  
  No problem, thanks!
- http://twitter.com/Socialishnet Socialish.net
  
  And congrats to you, Anne!
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http://twitter.com/Socialishnet Socialish.net

What fantastic data on Calgary’s social media scene! Very cool (sharing!).
http://twitter.com/doglover100 maggie baker

I see a few trolls, troublemakers, real, really phoney et al including myself in there. A fair representation of people I see on the street every day. Twitter allows me to this in the comfort of my own home. That’s what I’ll tell anyone what asks me when I’m there. I didn’t really know why before now. Related: I may have skewed the results if you’ve been tracking local usage of this emoticon. They may seem a little high if I’m on that list too. @doglover100
- http://twitter.com/doglover100 maggie baker
  
  I forgot the and I’m aware of the typos et al too. I don’t care. I have a dead link in my bio. Only 2 people have pointed that out to me. I Rick rolled 2 people on Twitter. Does that make me a big deal now. Check out the link.