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Remarkable Twitter Usage Stats
From Robert Moore's Twitter Data Analysis: An Investor’s Perspective:
- Twitter's user growth is no longer accelerating. The rate of new user acquisition has plateaued at around 8 million per month.
- Over 14% of users don't have a single follower, and over 75% of users have 10 or fewer followers.
- 38% of users have never sent a single tweet, and over 75% of users have sent fewer than 10 tweets.
- 1 in 4 registered users tweets in any given month.
- Once a user has tweeted once, there is a 65% chance that they will tweet again. After that second tweet, however, the chance of a third tweet goes up to 81%.
- If someone is still tweeting in their second week as a user, it is extremely likely that they will remain on Twitter as a long-term user.
- Users who joined in more recent months are less likely to stop using the service and more likely to tweet more often than users from the past.
We're watching Twitter carefully at Seeking Alpha, as we build out StockTalk.More - gasp! - Twitter Doubts
From Jim Goldman, CNBC's Silicon Valley Bureau Chief (pictured above):Full article here.
The Future of the Media Industry According to Paul Graham
Paul Graham (pictured above) is an essayist, programmer, programming language designer and partner in Y Combinator.
His most recent monthly essay is a must-read for media investors. It begins:
The entire essay, Post Medium Publishing, is here.
Upgrading Our Daily Email
When Seeking Alpha was in its early days, we published about 25 to 30 articles per day. So it made sense to offer our readers a "Daily Dispatch" email, containing links to all the articles arranged by theme and sector.
But despite our high article rejection rate, we now publish 200 to 250 articles per day excluding conference call transcripts. As a result, the Daily Dispatch email became too long, and the click through rate of any but the top articles was low. This matters, because there are about 150,000 subscribers to that email alone.
More »How to Measure a Website's Success
Usability expert Jakob Nielsen (pictured above) has a must-read article for anyone running a web site or investing in online businesses. He writes:
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