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There’s an old saying, popularized by Jack Welch, that goes, “Be number one or number two, or get the Hell out!”� There’s a new site, http://tdash.org/stats/clients, that tracks Twitter client usage statistics in real time, using the Twitter Streaming API. So, who are number one and number two?
As you can probably guess, number one is the Twitter web page itself, currently at 38.95% of total tweets. Who’s number two? �berTwitter, currently available only for Blackberry, is number two at 9.30%. TweetDeck is number three at 6.55%. The remaining 45.2% is divided up by 6,372 clients, including a catch-all “API” for clients that haven’t registered a name in Twitter’s database!
You can see the Top 20 by default on the web site. All the clients listed in the Top 20 account for 85.91% of the tweets! The site is a feature of one of the clients, tdash, and tdash itself is “currently ranked #2335 among 6375 clients.”
So� if you’re building a Twitter client and want to be number one or number two, you’ve got your work cut out for you. In fact, if you’re not already in the Top 20, I’d say you’re wasting your time. I expect we’ll see the numbers change a bit as the market shakes out, but I don’t expect to hear much from names that aren’t already in the Top 20.
Comments are now open – what do you think?
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"don’t expect to hear much from names that aren’t already in the Top 20"
There's always something new — wouldn't have expected to see Android catching up to iPhone OS in smartphone OS marketshare, but it's happening. Wouldn't have expected that Seesmic or HootSuite would've popped up at the height of TweetDeck's popularity, but there they are.
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.@AllenStephens I see you use UberTwitter – did you know it's the #2 Twitter client? http://meb.tw/9iRfxU
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