Top Tweeting Countries and a Look at Twitter’s India Stats [Flat Engagement?]

January 15, 2010
By manish

Twitter’s hockey stick growth has flattened over the last few months, but it’s interesting to note the emergence of South East Asian countries in the usage of Twitter.

Sysomos compiled a report on top tweeting countries (based on data between mid-October to mid-December, 2009 and data from 13 million tweets) and an interesting finding is that majority of users aren’t using the geo location API tool.

Top 10 Tweeting Countries

- US, Brazil, UK, Canada, Germany, Indonesia, Australia, Netherlands, India and Japan (via)

As far as total number of tweets from a country is concerned, India stands at 10th position (contributes 0.97% of total tweets).

Twitter Traffic in India

While Unique Users grow phenomenally, Average stay on the site has decreased (*).

Twitter Traffic in India

Twitter Traffic in India (click for higher resolution)

What do you think is happening with Twitter’s growth in India?

* – Twitter’s usage comes from several tools and internet traffic is just an indication of the traffic.

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One Response to “ Top Tweeting Countries and a Look at Twitter’s India Stats [Flat Engagement?] ”

  1. dotcompals on January 18, 2010 at 1:07 pm

    Twitter’s indian growth is largely due to Sasi Tharoor’s tweets and the inability of the indian media to understand what he really meant !

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