State of the Ottawa Twittersphere – January 2010

I’ve added Ottawa to the list of cities I compile Twitter stats for! I wasn’t quite sure what to expect with the Winnipeg stats, so learning that they don’t use a local hashtag was interesting, not surprising. But it’s safe to say that I am surprised local hashtag usage in Ottawa is so low (unless they use one I’m not aware of): I counted just 112 tweets tagged with #yow, and just 2716 with #ottawa. That’s less than 1% of all tweets posted during the month.

Here are the stats for January 2010:

# of local users: 8562
# of tweets by local users: 426258
# of tweets by local users containing #ottawa/#yow: 2828 (0.7%)
# of tweets by local users that were replies: 150400 (35.3%)
# of tweets by local users containing links: 113889 (26.7%)
# of tweets by local users that were retweets: 40243 (9.4%)
# of tweets by local users that were twooshes: 18104 (4.2%)

And here are the top ten most followed users:

1. pmharper
2. billbateswins
3. campbed
4. Jason_OToole
5. ErinBlaskie
6. BlackBerryCool
7. snookca
8. knealemann
9. MattMossop
10. AtifMirzaRemax

You can see the rest of the stats at my blog.