Figures indicating that 44% of Twitter users haven’t tweeted do not necessarily mean that the site only seems to be more popular than we think it is. We know of at least two kinds of people who don’t tweet – those who prefer to use it for getting the latest headlines, because you know, this is where news breaks and all those fake accounts you get to buy by the thousands if you want to appear to have many followers.
Let’s also include those folks who forget their Twitter password and fail to recover it because they’ve hooked it up to an email account they can’t access either. Going by Twopcharts’ data, less than half of the 947 million and counting Twitter accounts have sent out a tweet. Additionally, out of the roughly 550 million active accounts, 43 percent are said to have tweeted more than a year ago.
PCMag notes that the company has vehemently refused to shed any light on the huge number of inactive members consisting of people who’ve made an account and just don’t tweet as well as those who signed up only to leave later. In 2013, the company’s CEO, Dick Costolo, reportedly revealed that Twitter had 241 million average monthly active users as of December 31. That was a 30 percent climb compared to the same period last year.
Twocharts’ numbers may be a bit different from what Twitter has announced because the third-party analytics tool only includes those who send tweets in the count of active users. It does not cover folks who log into their accounts merely to see what everyone is saying on the social networking and blogging website.