Comments on: London really is the capital of Twitter

By: nsteinhardt

nsteinhardt — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 11:42:22 +0000

Are you kidding me? All my friends have twitter on their cell phone and it gets set off every couple of minutes when one of them tweets something like "guyz, just found best list of London Hotels" or "waching the game u?"

By: Executive Suites New York City

Executive Suites New York City — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 20:36:37 +0000

Nice information. Its usefulness and significance is overwhelming the way you covered all the basic necessary information is really impressive, good work keep it up.

By: Office Rent

Office Rent — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 18:40:19 +0000

Yes, I agree with you. Nice post.

By: The nuances of European social media / we are social

The nuances of European social media / we are social — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:43:25 +0000

[...] their own blog (page 22) and membership of social networks (page 36). Sysomos has shown that London is the captial of Twitter (in fact, it could be argued it’s the social media captial of the world), and more recent [...]

By: Indonesia Officially The Twitter Capital Of Asia « Jon Russell: Social Media In Thailand & Across Asia

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 03:36:18 +0000

[...] technology” was at the centre of recent discussion (in the comments section of this wearesocial.net post) in which Sysomos sheds a little more light on its measurement. Google’s number of search [...]

By: Darth Revan

Darth Revan — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 13:03:17 +0000

@stedavies' method is wrong because his google query is flawed, not because Google is flawed though.

The query captures a lot of other parts of the text in a twitter profile page.

Using his method we will find that there are more twitter users in Haiti than in Sweden
http://bit.ly/4wSsor
http://bit.ly/7rBSXN

Check this one out too:
http://twitter.com/doRroughmusic

He's in Dallas, Texas but is included in your "New York" search because his home page has a lot of "New York" in it.

Anyhow, my point is the google query given above is flawed. Popular terms like Haiti or New York occur very often, and the google query above incorrectly pulls them in.

By: Darth Revan

Darth Revan — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 08:03:17 +0000

stedavies 's method is all wrong because his google query is flaw, not because Google engine is flaw though.

The query captures a lot of other parts of the text in a twitter profile home page.
Using his method we will find that there are more twitter users in Haiti than in Sweden
http://bit.ly/4wSsor
http://bit.ly/7rBSXN

Check this one out too:
http://twitter.com/doRroughmusic
He's in Dallas, Texas but is included in your 'New York search' because his home page has a lot of "New York" in it.

Anyhow, my point is the google query given above is flaw. Popular term like Haiti or New York occurs very often these days, and they google query above incorrectly pull them in.

By: alex

alex — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 19:19:43 +0000

Also, from Sysomos' report, ” … table showing unique Twitter users around the world from Oct. 16, 2009 to Dec. 16, 2009. ..”. This means that their data is derived from examining those who have tweeted in the 2 month period. Hence the discrepency between the google query you gave, and their data. At the end of the day, sample size in the order of tens of millions is more than sufficient for this kind of inference.

By: stedavies

stedavies — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:34:34 +0000

It's a mistake to consider Google's search results useful? Quite a controversial statement to make.

By: Nilesh

Nilesh — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:17:43 +0000

Google' results are NOT always exactly 10 times off. Sometime they are close to accurate, sometime a little off and sometimes completely off. It is a mistake to even consider them useful.