50% of Tweets Consumed Are Created by 20K Elite Users [Study]

Twitter is a haven for influencers – celebrities, media professionals, bloggers, and though-leaders abound. And it’s this group who creates the vast majority of the tweets you read. According to a study conducted by researchers at Yahoo!, 50% of the tweets you read are produced by just 20k users. More from this study below.

The researchers set out to see who follows whom on Twitter. They looked at 42 million Twitter users as of July 31st 2009, 5 billion tweets (which included URLs) from the firehose generated between July 28th 2009 and March 8 2010, and classified users according to how they appeared in Twitter lists.