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Most Popular Twitter Clients Revealed By thomaspower

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Feb 07, 2009

Summary

The micro-messaging service Twitter became popular in part due to the thousands of different ways to post and view Tweets…but what are the most popular ways to share your Tweets with the world?

The Twitter analytics service TwitStat is continually running the numbers and provides us with the following, fascinating list. Unsurprisingly, most users post from the Twitter website, but the desktop app TweetDeck is a very popular way to post - more than 10% of the users surveyed were posting from it (see our TweetDeck vs Twhirl review for more info on TweetDeck).

When the Twitter search service Summize became popular, Twitter acquired it. Would it make sense, then, for Twitter to buy TweetDeck, considering its huge lead in the desktop Twitter software market?

Top 10 Twitter Clients

TwitStat’s current top 10 list is below, showing ranking and % of users posting from each service today. Note that where users made use of multiple methods, all were counted. The list is constantly changing, and the Top 100 can be found here.

1 Web - 29.57%

2 TweetDeck - 10.58%

3 Twitter

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Comments (2)

Thomaspower,

Feb 08, 2009

congratulations to @iaindodsworth