Welcome to the second State of the Calgary Twittersphere of 2010, my look at the intersection of Twitter and Calgary, AB. You can see last month’s stats here.
For information on the data, definitions, and other background, click here.
For February 2010:
# of local users: 8190 (an increase of 819 from January)
# of tweets by local users: 390224
# of tweets by local users containing #yyc: 11486 (2.9%)
# of tweets by local users that were replies: 116346 (29.8%)
# of tweets by local users containing links: 112937 (28.9%)
# of tweets by local users that were retweets: 20679 (5.3%)
# of tweets by local users that were twooshes: 13422 (3.4%)
Here are the numbers above in graphic form:
Here are the top clients used by local users for posting updates:
Some other interesting stats for the month:
- Just under 48% of all local tweets were posted between 9 AM and 5 PM.
- Local users posted roughly 9.7 tweets per minute in February (compared to 7.9 tweets per minute in January).
- The day with the most local tweets posted was February 28 at 21292. On average, 13937 local tweets were posted each day (compared to 11334 in January).
- Of the 116346 replies posted by local users this month, 31507 or 27.1% were to other local users.
- A total of 1434 users posted 50 times or more in January. In comparison, 1319 users posted just once.
Here are the top ten most followed local users:
- douglasi
- MarkIsMusing
- OksanaIrwin
- CrazyMechanic
- CassieSTROM
- TOMIMWizard
- VeronicaHay
- StevenDownward
- LeeCoates
- WestJet
Here are the top ten most listed local users:
- douglasi
- VeerUpdate
- jwatson68
- WestJet
- NHLFlames
- NatbyNature
- izzynobre
- uppercasemag
- CarlaYoung
- strategicsense
Here are the top ten most active local users:
- ProtruckR
- izzynobre
- CalgaryBizcaf
- arizonaa
- nscafe
- that_angela
- a_picazo
- MarketingHits
- alex_ruiz
- VaughanBuilders
Here are the top ten most active local users using #yyc:
- WeatherCalgary
- CgyCa
- harperonside
- calgaryherald
- a_picazo
- paulinate
- lonnietaylor
- C_DIG
- jcpollock
- CalgaryNetworks
Here are the top ten most replied to local users:
- that_angela
- alex_ruiz
- nscafe
- C_DIG
- alexflint
- gotkube
- carmenincalgary
- lonnietaylor
- craftygirljen
- Darren_Krause
Final Thoughts
As with Edmonton and Victoria, the busiest day of the month was February 28 at 21292 tweets thanks to the gold medal hockey game. Calgary actually broke the 20000 mark twice this month – the other day was February 12, the day the opening ceremonies took place. It was a pretty impressive month for stats, especially given that it was three days shorter than normal!
How do you know how many users are local to Calgary? As far as I know you can’t search them by locale and what about users that don’t list their location? Just curious…
I wrote code that works with the Twitter API to find users and tweets. You can search for users by locale actually, see here:
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=near%3Acalgary%2Cab
Users who don’t have a location set don’t show up in the stats, which is why these stats are a minimum. Thanks!