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by Brian Solis, originally published at PR 2.0

HubSpot released a report based on the analysis of over 600,000 Twitter users who have utilized the company’s Twitter Grader app. The full study is free and available for download in PDF.

Here are the highlights:

- Twitter has about 4-5 million users, about 30% are relatively new or unengaged users

- Twitter is dominated by newer users – 70% of Twitter users joined in 2008

- An estimated 5-10 thousand new accounts are opened per day

- 35% of Twitter users have 10 or fewer followers

- 9% of Twitter users follow no one at all

- There is a strong correlation between the number of followers you have and the number of people you follow

- The average number of followers is 70

For a deeper analysis and interpretation of the numbers presented in the report, please visit Marshall Kirkpatrick’s post at ReadWriteWeb (notice the URL vs. the post title).

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by Michelle Lentz

Plurk is a microblogging service that offers a more threaded conversation than Twitter. If you’re a fan of Plurk, you might enjoy perusing Plurkmania.

Plurkmania offers stats on Plurk users, detailing top plurkers and listing them by everything from Karma points to users by creature. On the front page of the site, you can view the top 10 users in each of the site’s categories. For a more in-depth list, there is a More Users link at the bottom of each column. Clicking the Stats link by each user’s name reveals stats about that particular Plurker. Of course, you can also enter your own Plurk user name and check out your own Plurk stats. (Mine are horrid, as I haven’t yet taken to Plurk.)

Plurkmania is a neat way to see who is Plurking, who is Plurking well, and who is Plurking great. Perhaps you want to add people with high karma points or those with a lot of followers, maybe those in your area. At the very least, Plurkmania is just a bit of fun for a Friday afternoon.

[Found via Appscout.]

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