Facebook and Twitter - the latest
- June 16 2009, 18:05
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Dan Calladine of Isobar Global’s weekly news update of the best of the blogs and tech news around the world
Facebook allow users to claim their own url
“We’re planning to offer Facebook usernames to make it easier for people to find and connect with you. When your friends, family members or co-workers visit your profile or Pages on Facebook, they will be able to enter your username as part of the URL in their browser. This way people will have an easy-to-remember way to find you. We expect to offer even more ways to use your Facebook username in the future.
Your new Facebook URL is like your personal destination, or home, on the Web. People can enter a Facebook username as a search term on Facebook or a popular search engine like Google, for example, which will make it much easier for people to find friends with common names. Your username will have the same privacy setting as your profile name in Search, and you can always edit your search privacy settings here.”
Twitter introduce verified accounts
“We do recognize an opportunity to improve Twitter user experience and clear up confusion beyond simply removing impersonation accounts once alerted. We’ll be experimenting with a beta preview of what we’re calling Verified Accounts this summer.
The experiment will begin with public officials, public agencies, famous artists, athletes, and other well known individuals at risk of impersonation. We hope to verify more accounts in the future but due to the resources required, verification will begin only with a small set.”
Twitter…Twitter is big, but not all users are very active.
Data set 1, from Purewire, based on analysis of 7m accounts
40 percent of Twitter users have not tweeted since their first day on Twitter, evidence that the account was most likely created and subsequently abandoned.
Approximately 25 percent of Twitter users are not following anyone, while two-thirds are following fewer than 10 people, evidence that the account was created but is largely dormant.
More than one-third of Twitter users have not posted a single tweet, and almost 80 percent of users have fewer than 10 tweets, evidence that while Twitter is billed as a great collaboration tool, a large number of users are there to consume content, not distribute it.
Approximately 30 percent of Twitter users do not have any followers, and 80 percent of Twitter users have fewer than 10 followers, evidence that for many users, their posts are not being widely tracked or read.
50 percent of Twitter users are following more people than they have as followers, and another 30 percent of Twitter users are following the same number of people that are following them, evidence that users are aggressively trying to attract followers by hoping they will “follow back” but have been unsuccessful.”
Data set 2, from Hubspot, based on a sample of 5.5m accounts
Usership stats:
24.14% of users have a bio in their profile
31.32% of users have a location in their profile
20.21% of users have a homepage URL in their profile
45.12% of users have tweeted at least once
47.29% of users have at least one follower
44.50% of users are following at least one account”
The average user:
“The average user tweets .97 times per day
The average user has tweeted 119.34 times in total
The average user has a following-to-follower ratio of .7738
Twitter food carts are a hit in LA
“A few really smart food producers or chefs have gathered a community around themselves and they move around in the city or even in the US and they tweet where they are, the members of their communities just go get food when they are nearby. This is too cool.”
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