New study suggests there are 2.8m Australian Twitter accounts
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There are more than 2.8m Australian accounts registered on social media platform Twitter a new study suggests, with Canberra and the ACT by far the territory with the highest per capita concentration of users.
The new study released today by the Queensland University of Technology, follows up a 2012 study which mapped the Australian Twittersphere, and gives new insight into the growth, development and uptake of the platform down under.
“When we did that (study) we found about 1m accounts,” said Axel Bruns, project leader who is a researcher at QUT’s Creative Industries Faculty.
So 14.8% of the population follows Kyle and Jackie O.
Unless of course some twitter followers are fake.
“Unless of course some twitter followers are fake.”
Massive amounts are fake. I personally run 30 or so accounts and you develop a knack for spotting them. It’s hilarious how many big name brands have 90%+ fakes.
(Note to industry, audit all your social media “superstars”. Chances are they’re just good at buying those results you laud them for.)
Irrelevant information. Imagine if TV networks did this, x number of TVs sold therefore X number must be watching. The reality is most twitter accounts are dormant, it wouldn’t be more than 250 000 users posting more than once a week.
Im from Canberra. Not everyone here picks ‘Canberra’ when selecting where we are from because Canberra is thought of as the inner city. We use our suburb names or ACT as there are only suburbs and bush in the ACT, it’s not like the mix in other states/territories.
Plus we are sick of the crap we get whenever Canberra is mentioned in the media because of the politicians we have the misfortune of having to lodge from the rest of the country…