On Twitter, Most People Are Sheep: 80 Percent Of Accounts Have Fewer Than 10 Followers
Let’s face it, most people are sheep. It is much easier to follow than to lead, and on Twitter it is no different. A full 80 percent of Twitter accounts have fewer than 10 followers, according to an analysis of seven million Twitter accounts provided to TechCrunch by Web security firm Purewire (which operates TweetGrade ). What’s more, 30 percent have zero followers. Does this mean nobody is using Twitter? Or that they are using it more as a one-way information consumption service? The fact that an estimated 32 million people around the world visited Twitter.com alone in April certainly indicates that there is something going on there. It just may be that Twitter really isn’t as much about two-way micro-conversations as it is about one-way micro-broadcasting. Indeed, a recent Harvard Business School study suggested that the top 10 percent of Twitter users produce more than 90 percent of all Tweets. Here is how Purewire breaks down activity on Twitter by number of followers, followings, and Tweets: Followers Accounts with 0 followers: 29.4% Accounts with 1 to 9 followers: 50.9% Accounts with 10 or more followers: 19.7% Followings Accounts…
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