Twitter: A research by HP labs

HP Labs has done a research on twitter the popular microblogging platform which has been quite successful in attracting the early adopter crowd and is considered as one of the sites o watch out for though its India reach is quite poor. Here is the report and here are some key points of the report as noted by jeramiah

• Most users have a smaller inner circle they communicate with:
  
• HP Labs Sample Size is @ 6% of the Twittersphere: 
  
• On average, most had 85 followers: 
  
• On average, most had 80 friends:
  
• Tweet Frequency? About one a day:
  
• 68%: are active users:
  
• Most members have been on twitter nearly 7 months:
  
• A quarter of tweets (@) are directed at other users:
  
• The more followers, the more they tweet –up until a point:
  
• Despite having large networks, a smaller circle is maintained: 
  

So Where’s the value of twitter it lies within the hidden network within the network:  finding out their true network of folks they communicate with on a regular basis will show their trusted network.

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