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The rise and fall of Twitter as a platform: 12 graphs

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Very interesting article over at the Atlantic:

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/03/how-twitter-has-changed-over-the-years-in-12-charts/359869/

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The average active user tweets about 20 times per month. That number
grew a lot from (roughly) 2009 to early 2012, but then it leveled off
and began to fall.

Retweeting is up; replying is down. Retweets became more frequent than
replies in late 2013. (Oh, and "old-style" retweets are dead.)

About 55 percent of tweets contain a mention of another user. Only 10
to 15 percent contain a link. Same goes for hashtags. (But people who
hashtag usually add more than one.) 

More than 50 percent of Tweets come from mobile devices. Desktop usage
of all types continues to decline.

Only 30 percent of Twitter's users are located in the U.S. and Canada.

But English remains the most popular language, by far. Spanish is a
distant second.

More than 30 percent of accounts are inactive. The number of inactive
and suspended accounts has been growing rapidly over the last several
years. 

Roughly 10-15 percent of tweets from 2009-2010 are now unavailable
because people have deleted them or made their accounts private (or the
account was suspended).

People don't change their handles very often.

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The last bullet is obviously because they had trouble coming up with a
tenth, interesting point.  The others are interesting.  The switch to
retweets and the incessant hashtagging says to me Twitter as a
conversation platform has plateaued, probably because it's not great
for conversation unless you like short, choppy attacks.  It also says
to me a lot of people tried it for a while and then lost interest as
the novelty wore thin.

I conclude that this, too, shall pass.

-- 
RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com>

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The rise and fall of Twitter as a platform: 12 graphs RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-31 16:34 +0000
  Re: The rise and fall of Twitter as a platform: 12 graphs Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2014-03-31 17:55 +0100
  Re: The rise and fall of Twitter as a platform: 12 graphs Alan Ralph <usenet@alanralph.co.uk> - 2014-03-31 21:25 +0100
    Re: The rise and fall of Twitter as a platform: 12 graphs Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-04-01 00:32 +0200
  Re: The rise and fall of Twitter as a platform: 12 graphs Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-04-02 09:05 +0000
    Re: The rise and fall of Twitter as a platform: 12 graphs RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-03 21:51 +0000
      Re: The rise and fall of Twitter as a platform: 12 graphs Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-04-04 10:20 +0000
        Re: The rise and fall of Twitter as a platform: 12 graphs Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-04-05 07:29 +0000

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