State of the Edmonton Twittersphere 2013: Top Users & Tools

In case you missed it, check out the overview post for a general look at Twitter in Edmonton in 2013. In this entry I’ll share more details on who the most active, replied to, and retweeted users of the year were. If you want to see the most followed users in Edmonton, check out Twopcharts. Taylor Hall is the first local user over 300,000 followers!

A quick reminder that the data in this post comes from a sample of roughly 13.8 million tweets posted by local users as defined in the overview post. Nearly 120,000 local users posted at least one tweet in 2013.

Here are the 25 most active local users (they tweeted more than anyone else):

1. RPrasad619
2. DaniParadis
3. KikkiPlanet
4. DavidPapp
5. canadianglen
6. Leask
7. TrevorBoller
8. YEGlifer
9. JovanHeer
10. abdihalimsalad
11. MyLegacyCoach
12. HouseofGlib
13. ChristySpratlin
14. bcbreakaway
15. markyeg
16. Moesquare
17. edmontonjournal
18. 1023nowradio
19. machinegunv
20. DJ_Orphan
21. Gloriadantuono
22. tommylutz
23. eissyrC
24. ctvedmonton
25. candyTae

There were three easily-identifed bots that would have been in the list above:

1. edmonton_rt
2. EdmontonCP
3. HOT107OD

Here are the 25 most active local users using #yeg (they tweeted using the #yeg hashtag more than anyone else):

1. ctvedmonton
2. GlobalEdmonton
3. CBCEdmonton
4. iNews880
5. 925FreshFM
6. mybirdietweets
7. edmontonjournal
8. 1049VirginYEG
9. DerrickDodgeYeg
10. metroedmonton
11. RobWilliamsCTV
12. KikkiPlanet
13. Dave_CHED
14. Edmontonsun
15. Yegfit
16. YEGFoodie
17. vineshpratap
18. EJ_Arts
19. JBH8
20. lindork
21. lite957
22. DishcrawlYEG
23. Sperounes
24. 1023nowradio
25. YEGlifer

There were four bots that tweeted enough to be in that list above:

1. edmonton_rt
2. EdmCA
3. everythingyeg
4. yegtraffic

Here are the 25 most replied to local users (other local users had lots of conversations with these users):

1. KikkiPlanet
2. EdmontonOilers
3. JasonGregor
4. nielsonTSN1260
5. YEGlifer
6. Leask
7. TrevorBoller
8. CommonSenseSoc
9. JenBanksYEG
10. eissyrC
11. Wildsau
12. DeeMented2
13. Kage_99
14. britl
15. JameyMPhoto
16. erinklassen
17. dantencer
18. lindork
19. dstaples
20. baconhound
21. Steeeveohh
22. joshclassenCTV
23. JackieDee16
24. Arbitral
25. edmontonjournal

Here are the 25 most retweeted non-individual local users:

1. edmontonjournal
2. ctvedmonton
3. globaledmonton
4. cityofedmonton
5. cbcedmonton
6. edmontonoilers
7. yegsphere
8. yegtraffic
9. localgoodyeg
10. oilersnation
11. edmoilkings
12. edmontonpolice
13. yegtweetup
14. metroedmonton
15. whereedmonton
16. edmontonsun
17. ualberta
18. 925freshfm
19. cisncountry
20. inews880
21. cfl_esks
22. 1049virginyeg
23. northlands
24. nait
25. oldstrathcona

Here are the 25 most retweeted individual local users:

1. kikkiplanet
2. dantencer
3. jasongregor
4. joshclassenctv
5. fakeoilersgm
6. paulatics
7. doniveson
8. mastermaq
9. cstpower
10. nielsonTSN1260
11. sunterryjones
12. sbarsbyweather
13. wanyegretz
14. etownmickey
15. ryanjespersen
16. britl
17. davecournoyer
18. lindork
19. trevorboller
20. dstaples
21. ebs_14
22. robin_brownlee
23. yeglifer
24. staceybrotzel
25. geneprincipe

Clearly if you tweet about the Oilers, there’s a good chance you’re going to get retweeted. I’m fascinated by the fact that a satirical account, @FakeOilersGM, is the fifth most retweeted individual. Shows you what kind of year the Oilers have had, and how engaged Edmontonians are with the Oilers.

Only the Edmonton Journal was retweeted more than 10,000 times. A total of 88 users were retweeted more than 1000 times, 1547 users were retweeted more than 100 times, and nearly 11,000 users were retweeted at least 10 times.

Tools

The ten most popular tools or clients used to tweet in 2013 accounted for 84% of all local tweets. The top 25 accounted for just less than 93% of all tweets. There’s definitely a long tail here though, as more than 3300 different clients were used.

1. Twitter for iPhone
2. web
3. Twitter for Android
4. Twitter for BlackBerry®
5. TweetDeck
6. Twitter for iPad
7. HootSuite
8. Facebook
9. Instagram
10. Tweet Button

Here’s a look at the breakdown:

No surprise to see BlackBerry fall down below Android, but I must admit I am a little surprised it remains so high on the list.

You can see the top users & tools from previous years here: 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009.

Happy Tweeting!