Most popular Twitter clients revealed

February 8, 2009 in Social Media | View Comments

What are the most popular clients for the very popular micro blogging service Twitter, which is used by millions of people worldwide? I’ve been wondering that when i was choosing the best Twitter client for myself.

According to TwitStat, a Twitter analytics service, most users post from the Twitter website, but the desktop application TweetDeck is a very popular way to post – more than 10% of the users surveyed were posting from it.

Top 10 Twitter clients

TwitStat’s current top 10 list is below, showing ranking and % of users posting from each service today. Note that where users made use of multiple methods, all were counted. The list is constantly changing, and the Top 100 can be found here.

  1. Web – 29.57%
  2. TweetDeck – 10.58%
  3. Twitterfeed – 5.54%
  4. Twhirl – 4.92 %
  5. Twitterrific – 3.79 %
  6. Tweetie – 3.65%
  7. Text – 3.40 %
  8. Mobile web 3.00 %
  9. TwitterFon – 2.96 %
  10. TwitPic – 2.94 %

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