Yandex, the leading search engine in Russia was quick to adopt Twitter. Last September they started publishing a list of the most popular Twitterati and including the service on their blog section, which shows statistics for many social platforms.
Now they have released a short PDF report which lists some key statistics for the Twitter service in Russia.
- Yandex estimates 183 thousand Russian accounts on Twitter
- More than 60% of Russian-speaking users update their Twitter stream every day
- 67% of all Tweets contain links, 8% of Tweets contain links to the media.
- During the winter 2009-2010 the number of Russian-speaking users on Twitter has increased by 42%. In the year period from March 2009 to March 2010, by 26%.
- About 150 thousand Tweets (messages) are posted each day in Russian. 5% of them are ReTweets.
- There are more than 125 thousands links published on Twitter each day.
- Yandex studies more than 20 microblogging services in RuNet. Every day, more than 2 millions entries are made.







5 responses so far ↓
1 Verona // Mar 8, 2010 at 2:42 pm
Oh, just wanted to write about it on my blog, but you were first =)
2 Nick Wilsdon // Mar 8, 2010 at 3:52 pm
Sorry Verona =) If it’s any consolation you’re on my resources list as a must-read blog in this space.
BTW Awesome post on using LiveInternet for keyword traffic stats. Hopefully I can throw that to my programmers to play with this week. I may swap you tool access for beer next time you’re in town ;-)
3 Russian Social Networks « Russian Search Tips // Mar 8, 2010 at 4:26 pm
[...] Russian social marketing channel. And even though Twitter is a hot trend these days, and it’s grown up to 183.000 users during the winter, Vkontakte and Odnoklassniki is the place where most of your potential customers [...]
4 Internet & Democracy Blog » Twitter sees strong growth in Russia // Mar 9, 2010 at 10:49 am
[...] a short fact sheet on their research on Russian users or Twitter. Here are the highlights (via Nick Wilson): * Yandex estimates 183 thousand Russian accounts on Twitter * More than 60% of Russian-speaking [...]
5 Verona // Mar 9, 2010 at 5:32 pm
Ohhh sucks that liveinternet doesn’t show the graph anymore.. Good you noticed! I was going around and telling people how great it was :(((
I just found some kind of click stats related to keywords: http://www.liveinternet.ru/stat/ru/queries.html .. but not sure what they are exactly..
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