50% of Tweets Consumed Are Generated By Just 20K Elite Users

Re:50% of Tweets Consumed Are Generated By Just 20K Elite Users by jgilliam on Saturday March 26, 2011 @08:51PM (#2373708)

Last I heard, Twitter has 200 million users. So that means the top 0.01% of users get 50% of all tweet impressions. Tweet wealth is 100x more concentrated than financial wealth in America.

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Re:50% of Tweets Consumed Are Generated By Just 20K Elite Users by d2 on Saturday March 26, 2011 @10:51PM (#2373996)

I'm curious what the graph of active users looks like.

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Re:50% of Tweets Consumed Are Generated By Just 20K Elite Users by patio11 on Sunday March 27, 2011 @12:33AM (#2374180)

It will look like a zipf distribution. ("Long tail")

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Re:50% of Tweets Consumed Are Generated By Just 20K Elite Users by orijing on Saturday March 26, 2011 @10:13PM (#2373915)

If only each impression were monetizable in units...

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Re:50% of Tweets Consumed Are Generated By Just 20K Elite Users by aridiculous on Sunday March 27, 2011 @12:21PM (#2375272)

It's kind of funny how willing the populace is willing to give more power to those who already have the most power.

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Re:50% of Tweets Consumed Are Generated By Just 20K Elite Users by keyle on Saturday March 26, 2011 @09:49PM (#2373853)

We are talking volume here, right? This isn't digg mob style... My guess is that those 20K are spam bots?

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Re:50% of Tweets Consumed Are Generated By Just 20K Elite Users by tpope on Saturday March 26, 2011 @10:01PM (#2373888)

I doubt it. Spam bots are at the other end of the spectrum, with large numbers of short lived, seldom noticed accounts. This has to be about the Justin Biebers and Charlie Sheens.

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