The Top 21 Twitter Clients

The Top 21 Twitter Clients (According To TwitStat)
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byErick Schonfeld on February 19, 2009

Some readers took issue with our list ofTop 21 Twitter Applications (According To Compete), wherein we tried to gauge which Twitter Web apps were gaining the most benefit in the form of trickle -down traffic from Twitter. Most Twitter apps don’t even register on the majority of site measurement services. We chose Compete because at least they had stats on a good many of them. We figured even if the absolute numbers are wrong, at least we’d get an interesting ranking.
What Compete does not measure very well is Twitter traffic from desktop and mobile clients. One service that tries to measure that isTwitstat. So take your pick, clients versus Web apps. Which is the stronger list (meaning which list has the most companies likely to amount to something)?
Below are the top 21 Twitter clients from its bigger list of 99, ranked by percentage of users who opt for that method of Tweeting. The Web ranks No. 1 with 32 percent (presumably that is Twitter.com itself), followed by Tweetdeck and Twhirl (there, are you happy Loic?), with 16 percent and 7 percent, respectively. Twitstat also counts services such as Ping.fm (no. 12) and FreindFeed (no. 14) as Twitter clients, although they do a lot more than just support Twitter. But then again, the majority of activity on those services is Twitter, so you could argue it either way.
Rank Client % of users Tweets/user
1 (1) web 31.99 % 3.93
2 (2)TweetDeck 16.07 % 5.14
3 (4)twhirl 6.85 % 3.73
4 (3)twitterfeed 6.09 % 2.81
5 (5)Tweetie 3.66 % 2.38
6 (13)TwitterBerry 3.50 % 2.20
7 (8)txt 2.89 % 1.63
8 (6)twitterrific 2.59 % 1.79
9 (11)TwitterFox 2.51 % 2.79
10 (10)TwitPic 1.98 % 1.42
11 (7)mobile web 1.90 % 2.04
12 (12)Ping.fm 1.68 % 1.27
13 (9)TwitterFon 1.68 % 5.45
14 (14)FriendFeed 1.68 % 3.59
15 (15)Power Twitter 1.52 % 2.55
16 (16)Brightkite 1.14 % 2.07
17 (22)HootSuite 0.53 % 2.00
18 (26)twitthat 0.46 % 1.17
19 (30)DestroyTwitter 0.46 % 2.83
20 (24)Twittelator 0.38 % 3.80
21 (21)m.slandr.net 0.38 % 2.60
Image courtesyMykl Roventine.
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网上：http://www.9511.net/TwitClientRank.html 不知到尚能饭否
前阵子无聊搞了个小程序用来统计到底有多少个Twitter的客户端
于是有了您现在看到的这个页面。。
可最新这个页面知道的人越来越多了，也让我越来越担心了。
服务器不是我一个人的，而且是蹭的哥们儿公司的机房，这些让我不得不小心，只有将这个页面下线图个安心。
最后一次的数据页面，我放在GoogleSites上了，估计要翻墙
这个小程序的源代码我也公开了吧
如果有不怕事的或者墙外有空间的哥们儿能给再架起来，那是最好不过了，起码目前我没这个能力。
代码有少许改动，主要是为了隐去我的一些服务器环境信息。数据库中的数据是截至目前最新的。
【代码传送门】【页面传送门】
@rui7905 2009.12.17