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Overview
Excited
and
passionate
about
web
technology,
(and
the
capability
it
has
to
provide
solutions
to
some
real
problems
here
at
home),
it’s
time
that
we
took
a
closer
look
at
how
we
have
received
these
technologies.
Collecting
organized
data
from
over
200
South
African
twitter
accounts,
I
thought
it
is
time
to
update
the
state
of
SA’s
Twittersphere
and
share
that
back
with
the
community
for
all
you
marketing
and
Internet
geeks
(like
me).
Before
reading:
•
South
African
celebrities
were
left
out
of
my
data
collection.
•
Brands
and
other
“company”
based
accounts
were
excluded.
•
Those
related
to
the
industry
i.e.
community
managers,
professionals,
“Geeks”
etc
–
were
excluded
from
my
data
collection.
From
this,
the
most
interesting
(or
rather
anticipated)
points
of
data
I
see
centre
around
the
“activity”
levels
of
many
accounts.
•
65.5%
failed
to
provide
a
homepage
URL
•
75.5%
of
users
have
not
entered
a
bio
in
their
profile
•
58.0%
have
not
specified
a
location
•
74.5%
have
not
updated
within
a
24
hour
period
•
87.8%
of
users
show
high
following
numbers,
as
oppose
to
a
level
following
‐
to
‐
follower
ratio
In
an
attempt
to
figure
out
dormant
accounts
(or
if
users
are
keeping
active)
on
Twitter,
I
labeled
users
inactive
if
they
satisfied
all
the
following
conditions:
•
Fewer
than
30
followers
•
Fewer
than
30
friends
•
Fewer
than
10
updates
By
definition,
43.5%
of
South
African
Twitter
accounts
are
inactive.
2
Created
By
Eshaam
Rabaney
–
eshaam.rabaney@gmail.com
–
July
2009
3
Created
By
Eshaam
Rabaney
–
eshaam.rabaney@gmail.com
–
July
2009
User
Based
Statistics
To
get
an
idea
of
how
South
Africans
have
been
using
twitter:
•
24.5%
of
users
have
a
bio
in
their
profile
•
42.0%
of
users
have
a
location
in
their
profile
•
34.5%
of
users
have
a
homepage
URL
in
their
profile
•
88.0%
of
user’s
profiles
are
public
•
73.5%
of
users
have
added
a
profile
picture
With
the
42%
of
those
users
who
added
a
location
to
their
profile,
I
tried
to
establish
more
or
less
who
makes
up
the
South
African
twitter
community:
Then
to
establish
the
gender
distribution
in
our
Twittersphere:
42%5%42%11%
Suggested
Geographic
Breakdown
Cape
TownDurbanJohannesburgPretoria56%44%
Suggested
Gender
Breakdown
MaleFemale
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