benjaminmayo: Twitter's own client has a market share of 77%

How many people are using Twitter's own app? This question may or may not be of interest to some people. In any case, Twitter does not release its own data, so a foreign guy inferred the current usage of Twitter app by analyzing the microblog data on Twitter. The following is a key summary of the data:

First, the following table shows the distribution of apps with 0.02% of tweets during the observation period.

Analyzing the number of Twitter clients, we found that the number of messages sent by Twitter's own application reached 708,101, which means a market share of 70.8%. About 29.2% of people use third-party applications.

Of course, these data also include non-client applications, such as information sent by third-party applications. After deducting the non-client application data (about 30.5% of third-party applications are non-client applications), the number of Tweets from client applications is 910,947, so Twitter's own client share exceeds 77%.

Obviously, Twitter clients have occupied a sufficient statistical position in the market. Except for some geeks who downloaded third-party clients in the past, the number of users who download and use third-party clients is relatively small.

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