Half of All Twitterers Have Never Tweeted; Half Have Zero Followers

Thus says the new June 2009 State of the Twittersphere (such as it is) from HubSpot (via MarketingVox) - despite a growth rate of 5,000 to 10,000 new accounts per day.

Among the Stats:

• 55% have never sent a single tweet

• 53% have no followers

• 56% do not follow anyone

To be fair, those who do actively use the service are active:

• The average user tweets .97 times per day

• The average user has tweeted 119.34 times total

• The average user has a following-to-follower ratio of .7738

I actually have to wonder how many followers are even real. We already know many people become followers only to never log onto Twitter again. But a number of followers are probably spam - porn sites and what not that sign on so that the Twitterer or his/her followers who check the link get some kind of spam message.

For more on the new report, click here.

For more on the growing problem of Twitter spam and malicious attacks, click here.

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