Recently Sysomos conducted a Twitter study focusing on how tweets are retweeted and responded to. They analyzed
1.2 billion tweets to analyze the pattern of @ replies and retweets.
Some of the highlights of the study are:
1.2 billion tweets to analyze the pattern of @ replies and retweets.
Some of the highlights of the study are:
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71% of all tweets are not retweeted or responded to.
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Only 6% of tweets are retweeted. 23% of tweets are @ replied to.
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92.4% of the retweets happen in the first hour, i.e., if a tweet is not
retweeted in the first hour, it is very likely that it will not be
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1.63% of retweets happen in the second hour, and 0.94% take place in the third hour.
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Only 1.53% of Twitter conversations are three levels deep – after the
original tweet, there is a reply, reply to the reply, and reply to the
reply of reply
Interesting statistics, Tim. Thanks for posting.
Really!