How many Twitter users are there in South Africa? Fuseware just made available their latest SA Twitter report, which has some very interesting facts:
- Number of Active* SA Twitter users: 55000
- Monthly tweets from SA: 1.5 million
- Twitter web penetration: 4.5% of SA sites reference Twitter
- Twitter SA site popularity: 7th most visited website in SA
- Average Twitter followers for SA: 115
- Average friends for SA: 122
- Average total tweets per user for SA: 346
- Percent of protected accounts: 0.38%
- Percent of geo-location enabled accounts: 12.96%
- Percent of Twitter verified accounts: 0.014%
- People hardly use Twitter.com directly for posting tweets, with only 26% logging into the site to post updates.
- The most popular Twitter client is TweetDeck, with 10% of all SA tweeters using it.
- People hardly use Twitter.com directly for posting tweets, with only 26% logging into the site to post updates.The most popular Twitter client is TweetDeck, with 10% of all SA tweeters using it.
- SA mostly tweets at night, between 7 and 8 pm. Many also tweet first thing in the morning, and over lunch.
- Cape Town and Johannesburg are the most busy tweeters.
This is a pretty great report by the guys at Fuseware, with lots more info – so go download it here.
