Twitter history available on the long term
On the long term, Twitter will make the history of users available. At the moment, tweets that are already placed are not always visible.
Dick Costolo, CEO of the social network announced this during a speech. He also pointed out that the Twitter company meanwhile is worth 8 billion dollars. Worldwide, Twitter has about one hundred million users, half of whom uses the social network every day.
Users point out that the private messages and tweets from the past cannot always be retrieved. At the moment, Twitter only shows the most recently placed tweets. Dick Costolo points out that it is a matter of setting priorities and therefore a matter of time to make the history of Twitter available.
Why did you unfollow me? Too many tweets is the biggest cause
Do you place more than 36 tweets a day then chances are you will soon be losing followers. Namely sending out too many tweets is the biggest reason to unfollow someone, as appears from a questionnaire by WhiteFireSEO. 66 percent of the people who participated in this research stated this. 36 tweets per day is the magical limit: if you tweet more than that, you tweet too many messages. Automatically placing tweets also isn’t popular with the twitterers. 58 percent says to unfollow when they find out about this. Other annoyances that lead to an unfollow are: tweeting the same link more than once (47%), not tweeting (38%), tweeting too much about yourself (34%).
On the other hand, the respondents were asked what made them start to follow someone. A retweet was named as the biggest reason, because 55 percent would follow someone if this twitterer retweeted something. Other reasons to follow someone: someone started following you (42%), looking for certain topics (32%), suggestions offered by Twitter (16%), FollowFriday (13%).
Hence this makes a retweet a powerful weapon to get someone to follow you. But when do you retweet a previously placed tweet? That is a matter of interesting content (92%), humor (84%), personal relation (66%), when you get something out of it (32%), and the status of the other twitterer (21%).
Over one million Dutch twitterers
The Netherlands have over one million twitterers who place a tweet at least once a week. This appears from research performed by the communication company OBI4wan. The company examined no less than 15.296.515 Dutch tweets and concluded that they came from 1.000.695 people. 80 percent of these people tweet one to ten times a week. 17 percent says to tweet between 10 and 100 times a week.
Apart from that, Wednesday is the most popular day to tweet, followed by Thursday. The least tweets are sent on Tuesday.