Twitstat, an analytics site for Twitter, has just put together a dynamic listing of the most popular Twitter clients based on the number of Tweets sent per user – in other words, it lets us see which client has the most addicted Twitter users.
Looking at the the top 10 clients (which are less likely to have data skewed by a few heavy users), the top spot with an average of 3.68 tweets per user goes to TwitterBerry, the Twitter client for BlackBerry phones (not surprising, given how notoriously addictive BlackBerries are). FriendFeed comes in at a close second with 3.55 tweets per user, followed by TweetDeck. Note: These figures will change over time, as the list is dynamically updated.
While the data is worth looking at, it is hardly applicable to the general population: according to the site, the dataset used is still fairly small (only around 900 users at the time this post was written), and only takes into account those users who are being followed by @twitstat. Because those users following @twitstat are likely to be “hardcore” users (given that they care about things like retweet counts), it’s a heavily biased sample.
The site also offers a listing of the most popular Twitter clients that doesn’t take the number of Tweets sent into account here (those this is prone to the same selection bias). For a more comprehensive run down, check out the study conducted by ReadWriteWeb last year).
Twitstat was created by Michiel Berger, co-founder of Nedstat, a European web analytics company.
Update: Just after this post went live Tweetdeck pulled ahead of TwitterBerry by a small margin. Stay tuned for more on this neck and neck race.
As I’m one of those crackberry/twitberry stats I’d suggest tweetdeck pulled ahead recently because of the holiday. Ive been home using tweetdeck instead of out and about using my twitberry!
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Wouldn’t the tweets/user be highly correlated to the usability of the client? Well designed and user friendly clients should make it easy to send tweets, so the number of tweets/user will always be higher for users of those clients.
Cool stats!
One additional reason for twitterberry being so high on that list could be that twitterberry is the only blackberry client (to my knowledge). Compared to the iphone which has 10+ clients.
I use the “mobile web” client on my Blackberry, and it’s plenty usable.
This sample size is so small as to be completely, well, charmingly anecdotal. 0.92% of 900 is about 8 users, and 1.56 tweets/user is about 12 or 13 tweets over all.
We’ve also been tracking the clients for quite a while now. http://tweetrus...nt/TwitterBerry – Numbers are quite different at present… Though its great to see twitstat get some attention as well as its a cool service
I just found tweetstats today.. and love it!
I travel between Dublin and Galway a few times a week. I started using the train. Prior to this I had little time or use for twitter. Now it is for me a killer app (kills time anyway!) and I use it outside of the train. One app I use and didn’t see mentioned here if “friend or follower”.
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It can be used to manage twitter friend and followers.
These results are odd because I’ve noticed, amongst the people I follow anyway, that the vast majority are using the iPhone. Could it be that there are more Twitter clients for the iPhone than the BB, thereby skewing the numbers? It’s kind of a silly thing to care about, IMO, but I’m always suspicious of “stats” that run so completely counter to my personal experience. It wouldn’t change the fact of that particular client’s popularity obviously, but I think that extending that statement to say BB users are Twittering more than iPhone users is unjustified and probably outright wrong.
I’m a Blackberry user who is addicted to Twitter. IMO, TinyTwitter (http://www.tinytwitter.com) is the best Twitter app for Blackberry. So don’t leave that one out of your stats!
If you want the full story on this, I’ve actually been maintaining stats on _all_ activity over on http://tweetsta...m/twitter_stats
Twitterfeed is by far the most popular “client”, while TweetDeck is usually the most popular desktop client. Twitteriffic seems to rise during the weekends as people to mobile.
It currently only show daily stats, but I’m planning in adding trends so we can see the rise ofbnew twitter clients.
Yeah, this is a pretty worthless stat. I don’t know how many clients there are for the iPhone or Blackberry, but I know I’ve been known to use two or three different apps a day on my iPhone. Then there is #4, twitterific, which is both a Desktop and iPhone client. How are they differentiating iPhone use from Mac use there?
If the sampling size was big enough, maybe it’d tell you something about a most popular client, but I have a hard time ever seeing it tell you about the most popular twitter device.
I prefer to get mine straight from the source.
I’m so addicted, I created a web app. that lets you declare a twitcrush on other users!
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I have used TinyTwitter app on my BlackBerry phone for a long time. it is so easily to use.
You people at the blackberry are doing a wonderful job, meeting all the expectations and winning all the challenges. BRAVO 2 all of you.
You people at the blackberry are doing a wonderful job, meeting all the expectations and winning all the challenges. BRAVO 2 all of you.
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