2009年10月20日星期二

Hong Kong Twitter users analysis part 1

Currently, Twitter get tremendous attention from the media. Due to lack of any reliable statistics on Twitter users behavior (especially by individual location, say Hong Kong), I have spend a few days to produce this report to try to analyse the general behavior of Twitter users in Hong Kong.

Due to the limitation of Twitter user profile design, the location field is a free text field and it is not easy to identify and group all the users in a particular location or country. The methodology I used is based on the keywords in user location field to check whether he is living or staying in Hong Kong and use the friend/follower relationship to extract the other Hong Kong users.

Here are some basic statistics I collected:

HK Twitter Users search criteria:

Filter wordings: "Hong Kong", "HongKong", "HK", "香港", "Kowloon"
Filter by latitude and longitude within Hong Kong.
Excluding protected accounts

Total no of sampling HK Twitter users: 8937

In average:

No of friends:144.44


No of followers: 146.36


No of status update: 308.10


Top 10% of active Twitter users accounted for over 80% of tweets:
1.79% (160/8937) users contributes 50% (1309694 / 2614290) of Tweets
9.26% (828/8937) users contributes 80% (2091674 / 2614290) of Tweets

Exceptional users:
Zero status update: 6.92% (619/8937)
Zero followers: 1.35% (121/8937)
Zero friends: 3.45% (308/8937)

User activities:
Send tweets within last one week: 34.71% (3102/8937)
Send tweets within last one month: 54.34 (4857/8937)
Send tweets within last one year: 90.87% (8121/8937)
Less than or equal to 10 status update: 3.60%(3214/8937)

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