A few years ago, a friend and I wrote a script that would crawl through the user pages of my space and scrape the "last login" to determine this for Myspace. W

A few years ago, a friend and I wrote a script that would crawl through the user pages of my space and scrape the "last login" to determine this for Myspace. We did a varying sample based on the UID and though I dont recall the numbers, there was something like 30% that hadnt logged in for over a year. This information about twitter is directly linked with their monetization issues. They have to think of ways to engage users better. One of the things they should have done was build an ad delivery API that the development communities could incorporate into their clients and then share revenue with the developers. Instead, they moved out of fear and closed off the system to outside clients. Had they embraced the developers - and brought them closer to the flock, they could have had their help in working on the issue.