Twitter Data From the Morning of Open Gov West BC

November 10, 2010 12:59 pm 0 comments

There’s been some great discussion taking place at Open Gov West BC conference on and off line today. If you’re not in attendance, we hope you’re following the #ogwbc hashtag on Twitter and participating in the discussion. To help keep things interesting, we’ve put together a simple application that searches for the #ogwbc hashtag on Twitter and then performs some simple operations on it to output how it’s being used.

Here’s what we’ve got so far [as of Nov. 10, 2010 11:45AM PST]:
Keep in mind that all statistics relate to the usage of the #ogwbc hashtag.

Overview
The #ogwbc hashtag has been used 895 times by 161 different users since November 2, 2010.
@OGWBC was the first person to use the #ogwbc hastag. Lucky!

Top 3 most active users of the #ogwbc hashtag from Nov. 2 – 10
@lacouvee – 53 tweets
@fusedlogic – 53 tweets
@dbhume – 47 tweets

Top 3 most replied-to Twitter users using the #ogwbc hashtag from Nov. 2-10
@fusedlogic – 12 @replies
@lacouvee – 11 @replies
@ckras – 8 @replies

Who’s using what software to tweet?
29% Tweetdeck
22% Hootsuite
14% Twitter.com
12% UberTwitter
5.5% Twitter for iPhone

Types of tweets broken down
117 @replies (13% of total tweets)
300 RTs (34% of total tweetsl)
689 conversational tweets (77% of total tweets)
216 tweets contain links (24% of total tweets)

We’ll be reporting again later in the day. Please donate your $0.02 and let us know what you think.