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Tom Austin
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41 years IT industry

Tom Austin, vice president, has been a Gartner fellow for a decade. He is chief of research for social software, collaboration, communications, information management, business intelligence and high-performance workplace (HPW) research. Read Full Bio

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Twitter Quitter Critters

by Tom Austin  |  May 4, 2009  |  2 Comments

Where have all the users gone?

The press has been repeating a piece today covering a story (originally from Nielsen) that Twitter quitters found to outnumber tweeters

So…are you a twitterer? Have you twittered more or less in the last 30 days than in the previous 30 days?

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  • 1 Stefan   May 4, 2009 at 9:44 pm

    We have this (wrong – if taken to absolute!) obsession with quantifying and trending everything … 30 days ago or 30 days from now on should have nothing to do with “more or less tweeting” … twitter is about feeling like sharing a piece of information found while reading in areas of your own interests and passion, with whom you’d hope your followers to be: like-minded people.

  • 2 lars   May 5, 2009 at 2:08 am

    More or less the same…

    Another question: Does this Nielsen Story prove the Hype Cycle concept?