Mashable published a study showing the 10 most popular Twitter clients and the percentage of users posting from each service based on data from Twitstat. These 10 applications below represent over 70% of all usage.
| Rank | Client | % Users | Category |
| 1 | Web | 29.57% | Web |
| 2 | Tweetdeck | 10.58% | Desktop |
| 3 | Twitterfeed | 5.54% | Utility |
| 4 | Twhirl | 4.92% | Desktop |
| 5 | Twitterrific | 3.79% | Mobile |
| 6 | Tweetie | 3.65% | Mobile |
| 7 | Text | 3.40% | Mobile |
| 8 | Mobile web | 3.00% | Mobile |
| 9 | TwitterFon | 2.96% | Mobile |
| 10 | TwitPic | 2.94% | Utility |
Some interesting conclusions when you group the data by category:
| Rank | Category | % Users |
| 1 | Web | 29.57% |
| 2 | Mobile | 16.80% |
| 3 | Desktop | 15.50% |
| 4 | Utility | 8.48% |
So more people use Twitter from their phone than from the desktop. Interesting! Are you surprised by that? How do you usually tweet? Please answer in the comments.
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about half and half - I use the Halo client when mobile and either Twitter or Tweetdeck on the desktop
The data are suspect. I often use the full website when posting from my Nokia E90.
Speaking as one who only tweets from my PC but using a GPRS3 USB dongle from the local mobile phone company for my Internet connection, I wouldn't be surprised to hear that I was included in the mobile statistics, giving the erroneous impression that I was using a mobile device to tweet on and receive my tweets... this may be a spurious statistic...
@brmbds
I use both mobile and laptop but c 80% from mobile Nokia E71. Various clients dabr, Twibble, full and mobile Twitter
I actually split my Twitter time between: Twitter, Tweetdeck and Tweetie depending on where I am.
Although there may be some issues with data integrity as a few people suggested, I think all platforms/ clients are equally affected. Thus, the trends are probably accurate. And about 2/3 of the mobile use is via iPhone.
I believe that is when I finally understood what twitter was all about-when I installed the twitterberry app on my BB. I've been hooked sinced then.
@mrich1911
Twitteriffic is both a desktop & mobile client - adding the 3.7% all onto Mobile is inaccurate. Even taking 50/50 split on Twitteriffic results in a higher % for desktop app usage, which kind of makes this blog post a bit pointless.
Thanks for the information just tweeted it :)
Thanks for the summary post. Good stuff! I'm mostly tweeting away on tweetdeck, a little mobile web and some SMS.
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