Top Ways to Use Twitter

The folks at ReadWriteWeb monitored over 37,000 tweets, or short messages posted to the microblogging application Twitter, to find the most popular ways that people are interacting with the service. They compared these results with the analysis they did last November in their article How We Tweet: The Definitive List of the Top Twitter Clients. Here are their top twenty ways that people use Twitter, with the number of tweets each method accounted for in parentheses:

1. Web 56% (20734)
2. IM 8% (2975)
3. Twhirl 7% (2754)
4. Twitterrific 7% (2462)
5. TXT 5% (1683)
6. Twit 3% (1182)
7. TwitterFox 2% (1114)
8. movatwitter 2% (718)
9. P3:PeraPeraPrv 1% (459)
10. Netvibes 1% (266)
11. TwitBin 1% (260)
12. Twitter Tools 1% (222)
13. TwitterPod 0% (159)
14. TwitterIrcGateway 0% (152)
15. Snitter 0% (147)
16. BeTwittered 0% (106)
17. Tweetr 0% (95)
18. NatsuLion 0% (84)
19. Facebook 0% (79)
20. PocketTweets 0% (70)

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