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My account is one of those 44%. I have nothing to say on Twitter, but having an account lets me follow the people that I want to. This still makes me an active

My account is one of those 44%. I have nothing to say on Twitter, but having an account lets me follow the people that I want to. This still makes me an active user, though.

valevk 13y ago
Yes, that's exactly my situation. On the outside it looks like you are not active, but actually you are regularly on twitter. Unfortunately, there is no way to measure this case, except for counting the people you follow or the people who are following you. Then you could know whether that user is somewhat active.
- josefresco 13y ago
  Couldn't Twitter track how many times you "request" your feed? Although not perfect, I'm sure they could get an approximation of those users who are just "lurking". They could also track logins from the web side, and probably app usage. This data wouldn't show on outside measurements (like in the article) but would help Twitter know who is active and not.
  - joosters 13y ago
    Twitter definitely could, and they can easily get a clear idea of how many of these 'zero tweet' accounts actually are active. However, Twitter have no reason to give this information out and there are not many ways for outsiders to discover this information.
    - talmand 13y ago
      There would be many business reasons to not release such information.
p-pat-ni 13y ago
Exactly, doesn't matter if someone tweets or not. Its the active user that matters..
HeyLaughingBoy 13y ago
I'm even worse. I created a Twitter account a few years ago and immediately asked myself "why am I doing this?" Logged out without sending a single tweet and never went back. I still get a few emails from them every month wondering what happened to me. Still can't figure out why I would need an account.
- Nickoladze 13y ago
  I used mine once to enter into to some contest. It's useful for doing that.
  - talmand 13y ago
    It's the new toss your business card into the bowl thing.

My account is one of those 44%. I have nothing to say on Twitter, but having an account lets me follow the people that I want to. This still makes me an active user, though.

valevk 13y ago

Yes, that's exactly my situation. On the outside it looks like you are not active, but actually you are regularly on twitter. Unfortunately, there is no way to measure this case, except for counting the people you follow or the people who are following you. Then you could know whether that user is somewhat active.

josefresco 13y ago
Couldn't Twitter track how many times you "request" your feed? Although not perfect, I'm sure they could get an approximation of those users who are just "lurking". They could also track logins from the web side, and probably app usage. This data wouldn't show on outside measurements (like in the article) but would help Twitter know who is active and not.
- joosters 13y ago
  Twitter definitely could, and they can easily get a clear idea of how many of these 'zero tweet' accounts actually are active. However, Twitter have no reason to give this information out and there are not many ways for outsiders to discover this information.
  - talmand 13y ago
    There would be many business reasons to not release such information.

p-pat-ni 13y ago

Exactly, doesn't matter if someone tweets or not. Its the active user that matters..

HeyLaughingBoy 13y ago

I'm even worse. I created a Twitter account a few years ago and immediately asked myself "why am I doing this?" Logged out without sending a single tweet and never went back. I still get a few emails from them every month wondering what happened to me. Still can't figure out why I would need an account.

Nickoladze 13y ago
I used mine once to enter into to some contest. It's useful for doing that.
- talmand 13y ago
  It's the new toss your business card into the bowl thing.