20 Facebook Stats
Twitter Usage & Market Share
1. There are 938 million registered Twitter accounts
2. Twitter has 241 million monthly active users, this is a 30% increase in 2013
3. Twitter is the fifth biggest social network in the world in terms of users
4. There are estimated 11 new registrations per second
5. Twitter is believed to have approximately 2.9 - 4 million users in Australia
6. Twitter had 2,525,527 visits in Australia for the week ending 26 April 2014
7. 42% of Australian internet users have an account, 14% accessed in the past month
8. Twitter is believed to have approximately 350,000+ users in NZ
9. Monthly active users only grew by 9 million globally between Q3 - Q4 in 2013
10. Twitter's share price dropped 13% within 24 hours following its recent announcement
Twitter Revenue & Emerging Trends
11. Twitter revenue Q4 2013 totalled $US243 million, an increase of 116% year on year
12. Mobile advertising revenue accounted for more than 75% of the total
13. Twitter accounts for 1.5% of all smartphone usage globally
14. The global Mobile Ad. market in 2014 is forecast at US$31.5 billion
15. Twitter is forecast to own 2.7% of the market, up on 2.4% in 2013
16. Australia online Ad. spend grew 16% in 2013 to $3.74 billion in revenue
17. Biggest growth area is Mobile Advertising, forecast to compound 39% 2013 - 2018
18. NZ Interactive and mobile advertising share increased from 17% to 21% of total spend
19. Mobile advertising spend in the UK will overtake print this year for the first time
20. UK Mobile Ad. spending is to surge 90% to £2.26bn in 2014
Twitter User Profiles & Behaviour
21. Twitter gender breakdown: Male 47% vs 53% Female
22. User age distribution: 15 - 25 (73.7%), 26 - 35 (14.9%), 36 - 45 (5.5%), 46+ (5.7%)
23. A twitter user on average has 208 followers
24. 9.2% of Twitter users have 101 - 500 followers
25. 44% of Twitter accounts have never tweeted
26. That said, there are over 500 million tweets made each day
27. The optimum length for a tweet is 100 characters
28. Photos average a 35% boost in Retweets, Videos: 28% uplift and Hashtags: 16% boost
Twitter Customer Service
29. 32% of Interbrand's Top Brands have customer service accounts on Twitter
30. 13% of Interbrand customer service accounts send 50+ tweets per day
31. For Top Brands the average customer service response time on Twitter is 4.6 hours
32. Top brands use the following tactics for handling customer service enquiries
a. 20% of customer service tweets direct users to an online resource
b. 12% requested more information
c. 9% direct users to email
d. 6% direct users to DM
e. 5% direct users to call