Comments on: New Zealand the sixth most Twitterous country in the world, 129k users (or is it? See update)

By: Simon

Simon — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:18:02 +0000

Thanks Sheldon, that’ll teach me to rely on the article about the original findings rather than digging into the original findings! Very odd that Ross Dawson (the blogger I linked to) didn’t seem to check the Sysomos list you linked to. Either that or he used different numbers and/or methodology. Thanks for pointing that out!

By: Simon

Simon — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:18:00 +0000

By: Sheldon (Marketing Consultant, Tauranga)

Sheldon (Marketing Consultant, Tauranga) — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:56:55 +0000

Ah excellent thanks for the reference. But New Zealand isn’t on their list of the top 10 twitter countries: http://www.sysomos.com/insidetwitter/#countries.

It looks like we are 16th with 0.5% of the worlds Tweeters: http://www.watblog.com/2009/07/21/twitter-stats-by-sysomos-an-analysis/

I think a more realistic number is 11.5 Million (the number of Twitter accounts Sysomos analysed) x 0.5% = 57,500 members in NZ. Not 129,000.

By: Sheldon (Marketing Consultant,

Sheldon (Marketing Consultant, — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:56:00 +0000

Ah excellent thanks for the reference. But New Zealand isn’t on their list of the top 10 twitter countries: http://www.sysomos.com/insidetwitter/#countries.

It looks like we are 16th with 0.5% of the worlds Tweeters: http://www.watblog.com/2009/07/21/twitter-stats-by-sysomos-an-analysis/

I think a more realistic number is 11.5 Million (the number of Twitter accounts Sysomos analysed) x 0.5% = 57,500 members in NZ. Not 129,000.

By: Simon

Simon — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:11:14 +0000

Data comes from http://www.sysomos.com/insidetwitter/, where they analysed over 11.5 million Twitter accounts. Perhaps Tauranga is only a tenth as Twitterous as the rest of New Zealand (given the demographics, I wouldn’t be surprised).

129,000 is a round number, thanks to @natobasso who did the maths to figure out that’s 3% of the population of NZ according to Statistics NZ.

And that stat is just a moment in time; as you say, 60% of Twitter users do quit in the first month. It is a dramatically underused service.

Thanks for being part of the conversation, Sheldon.

By: Simon

Simon — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:11:00 +0000

129,000 is a round number, thanks to @natobasso who did the maths to figure out that’s 3% of the population of NZ according to Statistics NZ.

And that stat is just a moment in time; as you say, 60% of Twitter users do quit in the first month. It is a dramatically underused service.

Thanks for being part of the conversation, Sheldon.

By: Sheldon (Marketing Consultant, Tauranga)

Sheldon (Marketing Consultant, Tauranga) — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:49:46 +0000

Bullocks. Where is the data? 129,000 is a joke. I’ve been watching Tweets in Tauranga for the last 3 weeks very closely, there are about 30 of us out of a population of 100,000. That’s 0.0375% not 3%. Somebody put the decimal point in the wrong place.

Furthermore, Mashable says that 60% of Twitters Quit in the first month.

By: Sheldon (Marketing Consultant,

Sheldon (Marketing Consultant, — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:49:00 +0000

Furthermore, Mashable says that 60% of Twitters Quit in the first month.

By: mikebros (mikebros)

mikebros (mikebros) — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 04:56:42 +0000

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By: jo9ty (Jo Orange)

jo9ty (Jo Orange) — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:55:07 +0000

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