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Justin | No Comments » Posted on May 13, 2012This post cover some thoughts, insights and analysis of the Top Twits list (May 2012 Africa’s Top Twits) I posted yesterday. Each of the headings provides an anchor for some tidbits and discussion around that bit. Browse through as you will. I would highly recommend you open either the PDF or Excel document when going through so you can let the information talk to you and come up with your own interpretations and insights.
Overall uptake of twitter
It is interesting to see the continued phenomenal growth of Twitter. While the top African twitter user (@pastorchrislive) hasn’t grown much there is massive growth in the top 10 below him. Previously second place had 243 861 followers, now that has grown to 615 332 and where previously (August 2011) 117 357 followers would have got you into 10th place, now just 8 months later that won’t even crack the top 50.
In the top 50 you would need to be more than doubling your following in the period just to hold onto your spot. And its not just those accounts that have small followings that are growing at these high rates (off a small base) but many in the top 10 have growth rates of 250% to 350%.
| Bands | 5/12/2012 | 8/31/2011 | Growth | Growth % |
| 1 | 1,062,297 | 1,038,830 | 23,467 | 2% |
| 2 | 615,332 | 243,861 | 371,471 | 152% |
| 10 | 363,226 | 117,357 | 245,869 | 210% |
| 50 | 120,941 | 59,003 | 61,938 | 105% |
| 100 | 61,521 | 36,422 | 25,099 | 69% |
The latest edition of Africa’s Top Twits is now out. Read it here : http://j-j.co.za/toptwits/
There are once again more twitter users included who had been overlooked previously, with particular focus on users in other parts of Africa. This has had a significant impact on the top 100.
This month I include a little more commentary on the top 10, include some growth statistics for this special group, as well as lay down the start of a comparison we can do over the next few months for our 13 Bokke who are on twitter. The 13 can be found here (http://twitter.com/jjza/WorldCupBokke2011)
Once again, suggestions, comments, corrections all welcome.
(South) Africa’s Top Twits – August interim edition
Justin | No Comments » Posted on August 20, 2011I have found a number of additional African twitter accounts which had previously not been included in the list. I have added these in and updated the follower numbers for all accounts present in the list. As always, please send through comments suggestions and amendments. An updated version will be produced at the end of August as the “official” August list. This is to just correct known issues from the last 3 weeks since the last list.
Follow this link to find all the goodies : http://j-j.co.za/toptwits
See the final list here : j-j.co.za/toptwits
Yesterday’s post (here) attempted to list the Top Twits (by number of followers) in (South) Africa. If you didn’t read the post yesterday, take a read to see where this all started. It had some flaws. There were some big names missing. After some manual processing and prompting for various parties, here is the new improved (still very much draft) (South) African Top Twits. The top 10 has changed a bit, and beyond that even more so. To make yesterday’s top 50 you needed 13 251 followers, today that has jumped to 22 613.
Once again, if there are some big names out there that have been missed please let me know.
Change log :
- Removed duplicated @BusRep, @BibleThoughts now makes it in at number 50 (26/7/2011)
- Added in some more users @Elbaradei, Jacob Zuma (SAPresident), Presidency, MetroFM (27/7/2011)
- Expanded the list to top 60 (so that some didn’t drop out of yesterday’s list)
- Included the date updated field
- Checked the numbers of all the accounts listed against current twitter.com numbers as previous sources were unreliable. Checked the balance of the top 120 as well just in case any jumped up the list, some of which did.
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Update : See the final list here : j-j.co.za/toptwits (updated monthly)
The Strategy Worx recently released their ‘Social Media in SA – The Numbers‘ Report for Quarter two. Makes some interesting reading. There is some discussion on Google Plus here.
In the report is a list of the Top 20 South African twitter personalities. The list was interesting, but on reflection seemed to be missing some of the people who I would have expected to be in the report. There appear to be some obvious missing ones eg. DJ Fresh 98 656 followers and Pigspotter (Cliff) with 61 000 Jack Parrow 22 281 Steven Pienaar (ok, he lives in the UK most of the time) 67 480 John Robbie 23 377, Bryan Habana 46 270 etc etc
I quickly posted a question on the discussion asking what was the selection criteria for this? After going back and reading the report more closely I found the reference : http://twitaholic.com/top100/following/bylocation/South%20Africa/
Going onto Twitaholic and playing a little gave some insight into the problem. The query used only picks you up if you list South Africa (Country), not City, Country (Eg. Durban South Africa).
This is very clear, Bruce Attridge in Durban, South Africa has 213 000 followers and is top of the Durban list, but doesn’t come up (would be 1st) in the South Africa query. Problem. Playing a bit more and you find that Durban, Durban South Africa and South Africa all produce different lists.
To top it all off, looking at the follower numbers shows some more problems. I am listed way down on the list (not that I have that many followers), but the numbers were vastly different from what Twitter shows as my followers. It seems the list is quite dated. If you click on a user, there is a button to “Update my Stats!” which can be used once a day. A manual process – though some numbers are more recent than others. Ok, so the data is flawed.
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