Welcome to the second & third State of the Winnipeg Twittersphere, my look at the intersection of Twitter and Winnipeg, MB. You can see January’s stats here. Since I completely missed posting the February stats last month, I have included some of them with the March stats.

For information on the data, definitions, and other background, click here.

For March 2010:

# of local users: 4972
# of tweets by local users: 249553
# of tweets by local users containing #winnipeg/#ywg/#wpg: 1918 (0.8%)
# of tweets by local users that were replies: 85563 (34.3%)
# of tweets by local users containing links: 61451 (24.6%)
# of tweets by local users that were retweets: 10486 (4.2%)
# of tweets by local users that were twooshes: 6421 (2.6%)

Here are the numbers above in graphic form (combined with February’s numbers):

Here are the top clients used by local users for posting updates:

Some other interesting stats for the month:

• Just under 47% of all local tweets were posted between 9 AM and 5 PM.
• Local users posted roughly 5.6 tweets per minute in March, compared with 5.1 in February.
• The day with the most local tweets posted was March 30 at 9226. On average, 8051 local tweets were posted each day, compared with 7397 in February.
• Of the 85563 replies posted by local users this month, 17616 or 20.6% were to other local users.
• A total of 973 users posted 50 times or more in January. In comparison, 799 users posted just once.

Here are the top ten most followed local users:

1. 333AutismNews
2. ColemanMichael
3. JasonFrovich
4. crackberrykevin
5. BieberMommy
6. canadianmetal
7. PetLvr
8. Dr_BobsEmporium
9. WinnipegMetal
10. WayneHurlbert

Here are the top ten most listed local users:

1. 333AutismNews
2. soulpoetrysite
3. BieberMommy
4. BieberIsABabe
5. Petiethecat
6. davidzinger
7. lyndseo
8. theweakerthans
9. neuroaster
10. JBieberzWiife

Here are the top ten most active local users:

1. herselfwpg
2. JKnDEWsCareBear
3. heartinthenight
4. BieberIsABabe
5. xoalyssabates
6. carl65ca
7. fpbowen
8. DDubsDiscoBall
9. April_miss
10. alyssapinski

Here are the top ten most replied to local users:

1. ianmcc
2. SnowBear
3. April_miss
4. sanchez_xo
5. AceBurpeeShow
6. jimtoddphoto
7. JKnDEWsCareBear
8. ChrisDca
9. kaisaris
10. RacialOverTones

Final Thoughts

I included three hashtags in the tagged stat this month – #winnipeg (the most common), #ywg, and #wpg. Even with all three, less than 1% of all local tweets posted were tagged! Compare that to Victoria, where over 9% of all local tweets posted were tagged.

You can see that February 28 was a record day for the number of tweets, as it was in all other Canadian cities, thanks to the gold medal hockey game and closing ceremonies of the Winter Olympics.

Welcome to the first State of the Winnipeg Twittersphere, my look at the intersection of Twitter and Winnipeg, MB.

For information on the data, definitions, and other background, click here.

For January 2010:

# of local users: 4107
# of tweets by local users: 211554
# of tweets by local users containing #winnipeg/#ywg: 1958 (0.9%)
# of tweets by local users that were replies: 73028 (34.5%)
# of tweets by local users containing links: 53271 (25.2%)
# of tweets by local users that were retweets: 13894 (6.6%)
# of tweets by local users that were twooshes: 7024 (3.3%)

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 4.8 tweets per minute in January.
• The day with the most local tweets posted was January 25 at 8408. On average, 6824 local tweets were posted each day.
• Of the 73028 replies posted by local users this month, 13608 or 18.6% were to other local users.
• A total of 831 users posted 50 times or more in January. In comparison, 558 users posted just once.

Here are the top ten most followed local users:

1. 333AutismNews
2. LordBieber
3. ColemanMichael
4. crackberrykevin
5. Dr_BobsEmporium
6. PetLvr
7. WayneHurlbert
8. MarloBoux
9. randypenner
10. George_Williams

Here are the top ten most listed local users:

1. crackberrykevin
2. LordBieber
3. soulpoetrysite
4. 333AutismNews
5. Petiethecat
6. lyndseo
7. neuroaster
8. davidzinger
9. theweakerthans
10. ManitobaMuseum

Here are the top ten most active local users:

1. Damiqua2
2. MerissaLeanne
3. sanchez_xo
4. Petiethecat
5. BieberIsABabe
6. CarebearJNK_DEW
7. neuroaster
8. 333AutismNews
9. fpbowen
10. iluvjoshramsay

Final Thoughts

It turns out users in Winnipeg do not use the airport code hashtag that many other Canadian cities have adopted! I recorded just 7 tweets by local users tagged with #ywg in January (interestingly, Edmontonians mentioned #ywg 20 times in January). Even #winnipeg isn’t that popular, with just 1951 tweets. In addition to the lack of hashtagging, Winnipeg users don’t seem to reply to one another as much as other cities do.

Now that we have the data, it would be interesting to dig deeper to find out why a community like Winnipeg doesn’t get as organized online as some others. I’ll continue tracking (and improving my tracking).