This document summarizes Twitter usage statistics in Belgium and describes different types of Twitter users. It finds that over 60% of Belgian Twitter messages are sent through websites, with Twitterrific and IM being the next most popular tools. It also breaks down Twitter users into categories like newbies, starters, early leavers, typical users, stars, influentials, whales and bots.

1. Belgians, thou shall twitter Bruno Peeters twitterfacts.com

5. A few examples of Belgian Twitter users

14. Twitosphere Tools

22. Twitter publishing tools

24. Twitterfacts blog – published 12/10/2007

25. 31.944 Twitter messages on 2.087 Twitter accounts 1. web 60.77% 2. im 9.87% 3. Twitterrific 9.13% 4. txt 8.43% 5. Twitterfeed 2.80% 6. Netvibes 1.43% 7. TwitterFox 1.22% 8. Facebook 1.04% 9. TwitBin 0.98% 10. Twit 0.56% Twitterfacts blog – published 12/10/2007

26. 12.757 Twitter messages on 962 Belgian Twitter accounts 1. web 57,55% 2. Twitterrific 8,70% 3. im 8,26% 4. Twitterfeed 7,98% 5. Netvibes 2,92% 6. txt 2,73% 7. Tweetr 2,54% 8. TwitBin 1,87% 9. Facebook 1,70% 10. Snitter 0,94%

27. Twitter number of users

30. 45% 27% 13% 15%

31. Twitter user life cycle

32. newbie

34. newbie early leaver starter

37. newbie early leaver starter bot typical user

40. newbie whale early leaver starter star bot typical user high influen- tial

45. newbie whale early leaver starter dead star bot typical user high influen- tial

46. newbie whale early leaver starter dead star bot typical user high influen- tial < 1% < 1% < 1% 35% 30% 5% 2% 25% 3%