For all the press that FriendFeed got
last week for allowing people to post replies directly to
Twitter, it was still 65th on our list and registered barely a fraction of
total tweeting activity. Some
analysts think FriendFeed is a threat to Twitter's existence, but remember
that 56% of users still interact with Twitter on the main site, and Twitter
makes up 44%
of activity on FriendFeed. So which service is really more reliant on the
other?
There are a ton of Twitter clients out there. We saw 142 different ways
to interact with Twitter in just 24 hours of monitoring the site's public feed.
That's an amazing amount of activity on their API, and their application
ecosystem is growing every day. Clearly, Twitter has struck a nerve with
developers and users alike.
Let's face it, the Twitterverse is made up of individuals and brands. While the branded Twitter accounts are staffed by people, the persona of each Twitter account is either an individual or a company or a brand. For example, General Motors has a branded Twitter account, and they also have product branded Twitter accounts. Like you I receive dozens of new Twitter followers every day. When I plow through them, I usually make my decision to follow back (or not) in under 5 seconds.
US talk show megastar Oprah Winfrey made her debut on micro-blogging service Twitter on Friday with a shout out to her fans. Oprah issued her first tweet around 7:10 a.m. PDT Friday--the same day Williams and Twitter's top celebrity, Ashton Kutcher, will join her on the show.
A StreamGraph is shown for the latest 1000 tweets which contain the search word. The default search query is 'data visualization' but a new one can be typed into the text box at the top of the application.