How Do People Read Tweets?

To put into pers­pec­tive the impact of Twitter’s having shut down UberT­wit­ter and Twi­droyd today, look at these data from Twit­ter­Source for “last day” (which one assu­mes means yes­ter­day) on the various ways peo­ple read their Tweetstream:

1. The web: 35%
2. Ubert­wit­ter: 7.3%
3. Twit­ter for iPhone: 6.6%
4. Twit­ter for Black­berry: 6.2%
5. Tweet­deck: 5.3%

Shut­ting down 7 per­cent of your traf­fic? Ballsy. That must be a serious policy vio­la­tion: TechC­runch reports that at least part of the com­plain was tra­de­mark vio­la­tion. Accor­ding to Uber­Me­dia exec Bill Gross, the app is being rena­med @UberSocial and all is well:

#UberT­wit­ter & #Twi­droyd users: We have made the chan­ges Twit­ter reques­ted. As soon as Twit­ter reac­ti­va­tes, you will be live again. Thx!

Ubert­wit­ter is a popu­lar Black­berry client but they also make (made?) an iPhone client; Twi­droyd is the “num­ber one” Android client.

Note that these data relate to traf­fic, not peo­ple. Many peo­ple use mul­ti­ple tools to access Twit­ter. The chart and data are from Twit­ter­Source, which uses a 5 per­cent ran­dom sam­ple of publicly pos­ted mes­sa­ges, the Twit­ter strea­ming API’s sam­ple resource.

How Peo­ple Read Tweets via Twit­ter­Source “Last Day”