Below is the a list of the top 20 ways we saw people tweet and a graph
showing the Twittersphere share of the top 10 post methods:









1. Web 56% (20734)
   
2. IM 8% (2975)
   
3. Twhirl 7% (2754)
   
4. Twitterrific 7%
   (2462)
   
5. TXT 5% (1683)
   
6. Twit
   3% (1182)
   
7. TwitterFox 2% (1114)
   
8. movatwitter 2% (718)
   
9. P3:PeraPeraPrv 1%
   (459)
   
10. Netvibes 1% (266)
    
11. TwitBin 1% (260)
    
12. Twitter
    Tools 1% (222)
    
13. TwitterPod 0% (159)
    
14. TwitterIrcGateway
    0% (152)
    
15. Snitter 0% (147)
    
16. BeTwittered 0% (106)
    
17. Tweetr 0% (95)
    
18. NatsuLion
    0% (84)
    
19. Facebook 0% (79)
    
20. PocketTweets 0% (70)

Social Media Addicts - Sink or Swim?

For social media addicts, which likely includes readers of this blog, the problem can be even worse. In addition to having our focus pulled away by productivity applications like email and IM, we're also pulled in a number of different directions as well - checking FriendFeed, Twitter, social networks, and more. (I wonder how many billions of dollars we waster per year?)

For many people, these distractions are overpowering. No matter the time commitment, social media addicts can't help but spend entire chunks of their day online playing with the new, shiny internet toys. When we profiled several social media addicts earlier this year on Twitter, we discovered that a good many people spent several hours - even as many as 10 hours per day - online, immersed in the web and social media tools.

It seems we're at a crossroads - there's so much information, but not enough filters. We can either drown in the lost productivity time sink that is the internet or we can swim...swim for our lives. The question is: how?

I'm not out to criticize, but I'm very curious how he feels about it and if he feels like he's being more effective by belonging to so many services. When do we hit the law of diminishing returns?





In any case, "Social Network Fatigue" and "Social Media Fatigue" is going to be the popular catchphrase of 2008 for Internet experts. As I've written last week, there already has been a rash of articles on the topic:






1. MySpace is Engagement Are Down?
   
   "The average length of time users spend on all of the top three sites is on the slide. Bebo, MySpace and Facebook all took double-digit percentage hits in the last months of 2007." From the Register.Co.UK


2. Google sees issue with Social Network Ads
   
   "We have found that social networking inventory is not monetizing as well as expected." George Reyes, CFO of Google. From the Financial Times


3. Facebook Applications (Widgets) Decrease in Popularity
   
   "All of the top 10 leaderboard applications have seen substantial drops in daily users since peaking in November and December,"
   
   From Read/Write Web

Confusing Aggregation With Importation

With so many different platforms to aggregate, noise levels are surging.