The Number Of Russian-Speaking Twitter Accounts Surpasses 1 Million

According to a new study by Russian firm Yandex, July 2011 saw the number of Russian-speaking Twitter accounts surpass 1 million.

The firm also found that each day on Twitter, there are about 370,000 tweets sent in the Russian language. Compare this to March 2010 which saw only 150,000, and it looks like the number of Russian tweets has more than doubled in the past year or so.

Looking at these 370,000 tweets, Yandex found that 8 percent of them were retweets (compared to 5 percent a year earlier), and about 33 percent were replies to other users.

However,

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