{"id":2368,"date":"2008-12-24T10:59:16","date_gmt":"2008-12-24T15:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/on_twitter_and\/"},"modified":"2008-12-24T10:59:16","modified_gmt":"2008-12-24T15:59:16","slug":"on_twitter_and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2008\/12\/on_twitter_and\/","title":{"rendered":"On Twitter And The State Of The Twittersphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For several months I&#8217;ve been <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/barner\">using the social media site Twitter<\/a>.  I use it for four primary purposes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To connect and chat with other local users<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>As an outlet for random utterances and announcements<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Entertainment<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>As a newsfeed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In general it&#8217;s a useful tool.  When I first signed up I would sometimes encounter a service failure or &#8220;Fail Whale,&#8221; but I&#8217;ve I&#8217;ve rarely gotten any of those since September.<br \/>\nHubSpot compiled a statistical look at Twitter use in its &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.hubspot.com\/blog\/tabid\/6307\/bid\/4439\/State-of-the-Twittersphere-Q4-2008-Report.aspx\">State of the Twittersphere &#8211; Q4 2008 Report<\/a>.&#8221;  Some of the findings:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>    * Twitter is dominated by newer users &#8211; 70% of Twitter users joined in 2008<br \/>\n* An estimated 5-10 thousand new accounts are opened per day<br \/>\n* 35% of Twitter users have 10 or fewer followers<br \/>\n* 9% of Twitter users follow no one at all<br \/>\n* There is a strong correlation between the number of followers you have and the number of people you follow<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Interestingly, the report also indicates that Twitter use is highest at mid-week.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m currently following 117 users and have 100 followers.  I follow several news and other websites&#8211;perhaps too many, as it&#8217;s annoying when those sites fire off a bunch of tweets in a row.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll continue following more users, but not too many more.  There&#8217;s a balance to strike between having a steady flow of content and being overwhelmed.  I&#8217;m thinking that following more than 200 feeds is closer to the latter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2008\/12\/on_twitter_and\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to On Twitter And The State Of The Twittersphere\"><p>For several months I&#8217;ve been using the social media site Twitter. I use it for four primary purposes: To connect and chat with other local users As an outlet for random utterances and announcements Entertainment As a newsfeed In general it&#8217;s a useful tool. When I first signed up I would sometimes encounter a service [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2368","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}