Friday, February 24, 2012
Twitter a truly global tool with 72% of accounts outside of the U.S.
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Twitter
is growing in popularity across the world, with U.S. accounts now
representing just slightly more than one quarter (28.1 percent) of the
total Twitter population, according to new data.
With 33.3 million accounts, Brazil now outranks Japan
(29.9 million accounts) as the second most Twittering country, but
Japanese remains the second most used language on Twitter after English,
according to Paris-based social media research company Semiocast.
Semiocast said it analyzed the explicit and implicit location data,
along with the activity levels, of 383 million Twitter profiles created
before January 1, 2012.
The U.S. still has a commanding lead as the country with the most
accounts (107.7 million accounts in total), but its global share is
shrinking as users around the world sign on to the service.
Folks in the Netherlands, meanwhile, bested their Japanese and
American peers in terms of activity, and are the most active people on
the information network, Semiocast found. Thirty three percent of
accounts located in the Netherlands tweeted at least one public update
between September 1 and November 30, 2011 — that’s six percent higher
than the global average.
As the nearly six-year-old Twitter continues its international
expansion, it will face a variety of challenges, including legal
discrepancies around freedom of speech. Twitter recently added the capability to withhold tweets
from users in a particular country, while leaving them accessible to
users elsewhere, should it need to comply with tweet takedown orders.
Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Semiocast’s data.
Source - Venture Beat
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