Some interesting new statistics regarding Twitter have emerged from The Harvard School of Business. Taking the results of 300,000 randomly selected Twitter users, it looked into how people were using the service and how it compares to social networking sites.

It has provided some statistics that might surprise a lot of people. Although Twitter seems to be everywhere and everyone seems to be “tweeting”, the truth is that 90% of all “tweets” are written by the top 10% most prolific writers.

The findings also show that males attract a lot more followers at this time. There isn’t a reason to explain this so it will be interesting to see how the figures develop in future years. 

Over half of people signed up to Twitter post a “tweet” only once every 74 days which shows there is still a huge room for growth in the service.

Posted on Monday, June 8th, 2009 at 2:23 pm in Social Media, Twitter, Twitter related. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.