Welcome to the fourth State of the Edmonton Twittersphere of 2010, my look at the intersection of Twitter and Edmonton, AB. You can see last month’s stats here.
For information on the data, definitions, and other background, click here.
For April 2010:
# of local users: 7673 (a decrease of 422 from March)
# of tweets by local users: 404756
# of tweets by local users containing #yeg: 27352 (6.8%)
# of tweets by local users that were replies: 143618 (35.5%)
# of tweets by local users containing links: 97891 (24.2%)
# of tweets by local users that were retweets: 20058 (5.0%)
# of tweets by local users that were twooshes: 14270 (3.5%)
Here are the numbers above in graphic form:
Here are the top clients used by local users for posting updates – looks like Twitter for BlackBerry is rising quickly:
Some other interesting stats for the month:
- Just under 51% of all local tweets were posted between 9 AM and 5 PM.
- Local users posted roughly 9.4 tweets per minute in April (compared to 9.3 tweets per minute in March).
- The day with the most local tweets posted was April 13 at 16015. On average, 13492 local tweets were posted each day (compared to 13449 in March).
- Of the 143618 replies posted by local users this month, 49910 or 34.8% were to other local users.
- A total of 1572 users posted 50 times or more in March. In comparison, 1075 users posted just once.
Here are the top ten most followed local users:
- Pat_Lorna
- revtrev
- randyfritz
- dancinginlife
- LesM
- dragonage
- DrBarryLycka
- NHL_Oilers
- patkSTEREOS
- redneckmommy
Here are the top ten most listed local users:
- randyfritz
- revtrev
- dragonage
- paradepro
- redneckmommy
- DaBaby
- dancinginlife
- NHL_Oilers
- Pat_Lorna
- edmontonjournal
Here are the top ten most active local users:
- EdmontonBizcaf
- Lekordable
- rootnl2k
- etownmelly
- DWsBITCH
- Gen22
- frostedbetty
- CommonSenseSoc
- PsychicJay
- EdmontonCP
Here are the top ten most active local users using #yeg:
- edmontonjournal
- WeatherEdmonton
- EdmCa
- DebraWard
- oilersff
- iNews880
- cbcedmonton
- livingsanctuary
- ctvedmonton
- Tamara_Stecyk
Here are the top ten most replied to local users:
- frostedbetty
- ZoomJer
- britl
- CommonSenseSoc
- angelzilla
- Jenaseegalet
- GuitarKat
- bingofuel
- adampatterson
- Wildsau
Here are the top ten most retweeted local users (by other local users):
- edmontonjournal
- mastermaq
- ctvedmonton
- cbcedmonton
- CityofEdmonton
- BrentWelch
- dantencer
- bingofuel
- sonic1029
- iNews880
Final Thoughts
I did some additional work on my algorithm for identifying local users, which accounts for the drop in users from last month. I think it’s more accurate now. I think the “most retweeted” list is useful for measuring influence, though it alone doesn’t tell the whole story.
UPDATE: Just to clarify, the most retweeted list only accounts for standard-style retweets (those using Twitter’s retweet feature or those starting with RT @) made by other local users. I hope to improve this over time.
Is there any way to see what the top 10 hashtag topics were with the hashtag #yeg?
As always, thanks for this, Mack. It’s a great resource that I access pretty damned often
Thanks, Mack!
Glad to hear it Adam!
Kristina – I’m working on extracting topics…but it’s not trivial 🙂
Dang! Still can’t crack that top 10. As Boxer the Horse says, “I will work harder.”
Great stuff, Mack! I have a suggested category for you – what about a followers / following ratio? To me that is how I judge the quality of a person’s tweets and whether I want to follow them.
One problem with this is obviously news sources who generally don’t follow too many people, but it might still be worthwhile taking a look at.
I have looked at that metric in the past Kevin, maybe I should look again. I think maybe “followers/following” ratio for users with at least X number of followers would probably be more interesting.
Good call, Mack. As you would know, the best marketing strategy for getting followers is by following people. This results in accounts with quantity, but not necessarily quality.
What are the most used hash tags by our local users. I would really like to see something that simple. That is a simple request, isn’t it? And, do you have a counter part doing this in calgary? Curious about how we are comparing as I have tried to follow #yycfood and there is really not much happening there… what do they use – or what else do edmonton foodies use?
🙂
Valerie
It would be interesting to remove all the spammers, scammers, and businesses from your lists and see who the real top ten “people” are 🙂