According to foreign media reports, the U.S. survey found that although Twitter has more than 200 million registered users, but 50% of the microblogging site only messages created by the 20,000 elite users.
Yahoo researchers from July 28, 2009 to March 8, 2010 posted on Twitter, Twitter on the 260 million information was investigated, using a list of features distinguish the Twitter website, including celebrities, blog owners, media and other organizations, including a spokesman for the elite of the difference between users and ordinary users.
The researchers found that "Based on this classification, we find that Twitter is very centralized information dissemination, about 50% of the micro-Bo information is released about 20,000 elite users, the media has created most of the information, but celebrities have fans up. "researchers also stressed that" information flow tends to centralization, and did not show the average trend. "
The researchers also found that, Twitter users respond less fans message. This makes Twitter a social function to be weaker than Facebook's "favorite" button.
The researchers explain, "Twitter user fan relations and other social networking features of the interaction is not the same, Twitter is more like a one-way mass media and interpersonal communication are combined with two-way hybrid."
Earlier this month, Twitter celebrated its fifth birthday. Twitter said the current average weekly published on Twitter microblogging messages has reached 10 million, the average daily number of microblogging released 140 million.
Twitter, currently has more than 200 million registered users, but the site did not disclose the number of active users.
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