Study: Only 0.027 Percent of Iranians Use Twitter

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Gawker

11-9-09

Remember the storyline about a new Iranian revolution after the elections this summer? The one fuelled by the internet generation? The one that got the state department to intervene to help Iranians Twitter? Not so much.

British writer and analyst Charles Leadbeater, and researcher Annika Wong, have put together a report called Cloud Culture to be published by the British Council next year. Their statistical study, provided to me by Leadbeater, is based on figures from the social media analytics company Sysomos. It shows that such a tiny proportion of Iranians are on Twitter that any stories about a new movement based on the social network are meaningless. The figure they provide, by they way, includes the thousands of foreigners who changed their Twitter location to Tehran when the 'Iranian internet revolution' story struck after the elections in June and Facebook and Twitter were afire with Iran sentiment. So the likely figure is even lower.

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http://gawker.com/5400268/the-revolution-will-not-be-tweeted-because-only-0027-of-iranians-are-on-twitter

[ddeclue]

1. As opposed to Americans? Do even 10% "twitter"?

I have a twitter acct but I'be maybe posted to it twice in a year.