State of the Edmonton Twittersphere 2011 – Users & Clients

This is the second part in my State of the Edmonton Twittersphere for 2011 – you can read the overview post here. As we saw in that entry, more than 46,000 local users posted at least one tweet in 2011, and more than 23,000 were active in December. Let’s take a closer look at users and the tools they used to post tweets.

In my experience the creation date for a user is not always populated, but assuming it is incorrect or missing equally across the year, this chart gives us an indication of when local users signed up for accounts in 2011:

As you can see only March seems to stand out – the number of users created is otherwise fairly evenly distributed across the year.

On to the lists!

Here are the 25 most followed users:

1. hallsy04
2. bioware
3. NHL_Oilers
4. revtrev
5. Pat_Lorna
6. ebs_14
7. masseffect
8. dragonage
9. randyfritz
10. MilesSTEREOS
11. askandimagine
12. darklarke
13. jayrahime
14. DavidPapp
15. AskMartyMisner
16. DancinginLife
17. mps_91
18. TheMaddigans
19. CityofEdmonton
20. subunit1
21. edmontonjournal
22. redneckmommy
23. ctvedmonton
24. GenePrincipe
25. ThisBirdsDay

The average local user has 138 followers (compared to 120 last year). A total of 918 users have 1000 followers or more (compared to 420 users last year).

Here are the 25 most listed users:

1. bioware
2. revtrev
3. NHL_Oilers
4. masseffect
5. dragonage
6. hallsy04
7. redneckmommy
8. rootnl2k
9. randyfritz
10. paradepro
11. Pat_Lorna
12. gcouros
13. edmontonjournal
14. gsiemens
15. DancinginLife
16. ebs_14
17. da_buzz
18. ctvedmonton
19. CityofEdmonton
20. dantencer
21. CBCEdmonton
22. mastermaq
23. britl
24. askandimagine
25. GlobalEdmonton

The average local user has been listed 4 times (compared to 5 times last year).

Here are the 25 most active users:

1. rootnl2k
2. etownmelly
3. theleanover
4. JoThrillzPromo
5. auryanna
6. CommonSenseSoc
7. KikkiPlanet
8. RyanPMG
9. Leask
10. BikiniOrBust
11. LiarAllDay
12. ZoomJer
13. fraygulrock
14. counterplot
15. JovanHeer
16. PoisonLolita (now @Shannanicorn)
17. SaySandra
18. Jenn_Etown
19. sarahbartlett (now @sarahesinfield)
20. DV1NE
21. gcouros
22. AskMartyMisner
23. andrew_leach
24. TrevorBoller
25. habanerogal

Here are the 5 most active bots:

1. WCIJobs
2. EdmontonBizcaf
3. MadMissee
4. yegtraffic
5. LocalEdmonton

Combined those were the top 30 most active users, and they accounted for 8.3% of all local tweets. The top 100 most active users accounted for 16.0% of all local tweets (compared to 18.5% last year).

Here are the 25 most active users using #yeg (and #yeg-related hashtags):

1. iNews880
2. ctvedmonton
3. edmontonjournal
4. CBCEdmonton
5. TamaraStecyk
6. MacsTheWord
7. Edmontonsun
8. Paulatics
9. DebraWard
10. JBH8
11. k97
12. mastermaq
13. Sirthinks
14. SimonOstler
15. KikkiPlanet
16. CommonSenseSoc
17. metroedmonton
18. britl
19. lindork
20. thepolishviking
21. Slummer90
22. Macgyyver
23. CityofEdmonton
24. GigcityYEG
25. craigpilgrim

Here are 5 most active bots using #yeg:

1. yegsphere
2. EdmCa
3. yegwx
4. yegtraffic
5. Oilogosphere

The top 100 most active users using #yeg and related tags accounted for 30.3% of all #yeg-tagged tweets, down from 51.8% last year. That suggests that more users are using #yeg! A total of 14,238 users posted at least one tweet tagged with #yeg or a related tag in 2011.

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

1. KikkiPlanet
2. JasonGregor
3. confessionality
4. ZoomJer
5. JenBanksYEG
6. Wildsau
7. britl
8. Pokerclack
9. CommonSenseSoc
10. dantencer
11. SaySandra
12. RockstarJodie
13. TamaraStecyk
14. Rainyfool
15. Leask
16. NoPantsAsh
17. lindork
18. Luzzara
19. NHL_Oilers
20. FeliciaDewar
21. habanerogal
22. TrevorBoller
23. nielson1260
24. Sirthinks
25. MeghanDarker

Those 25 users accounted for 11.2% of all local replies. The top 100 most replied to local users accounted for 24.5% of all local replies (compared to 32.8% last year).

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

1. edmontonjournal
2. NHL_Oilers
3. ctvedmonton
4. dantencer
5. CityofEdmonton
6. mastermaq
7. metroedmonton
8. cbcedmonton
9. Paulatics
10. GlobalEdmonton
11. SimonOstler
12. yegtraffic
13. JasonGregor
14. britl
15. KikkiPlanet
16. edmontonsun
17. sunterryjones
18. EdmontonHumane
19. GenePrincipe
20. hallsy04
21. iNews880
22. joshclassen
23. bingofuel
24. Wildsau
25. davecournoyer

If you ever needed proof that Edmonton is a hockey town, look no further than that list! A total of 38 users were retweeted by other local users 1000 times or more. Just the top 6 users were retweeted more than 4000 times, and just @edmontonjournal was retweeted more than 10,000 times.

I like to say that the “most retweeted” is the most important of all the lists in this post, because the retweet is the social currency of Twitter. If someone retweets you, that means that whatever you posted was important/clever/funny/inspiring/etc enough to share with others.

Clients

More than 3100 different applications and services were used to post tweets in 2011, up from more than 2000 last year. Here are the top ten:

1. web
2. Twitter for iPhone
3. Twitter for BlackBerry®
4. TweetDeck
5. HootSuite
6. Echofon
7. twitterfeed
8. Twitter for Android
9. txt
10. Tweet Button

The top ten clients accounted for 76.8% of all local tweets in 2011 (compared to 76.2% last year).

Coming Up

This year I have broken the report into sections:

1. Overview
2. Users & Clients
3. Hashtags & Links

If you have suggestions for additional parts to the report, I’d love to hear them. Thanks for reading!