More than half a billion people already own profile on Twitter and Brazil has a good part in it. Only the United States, according to data compiled by Semiocast, have 140 million users on the microblogging network.
According to the French consulting company, exceeding the 500 million occurred before July 1, when there were 517 million twitterers worldwide. In June 1058 it was billion tweets posted public - 25.8% of them were Americans.
The U.S. accounts for 27.4% of total users, with 141.8 million accounts created during this period. There was a decrease compared to January, when the country had 28.1%.
But Brazil, which in early 2012 the Japanese took the 2nd position as the largest country on the network, the time had 33.3 million users, but increased to 41.2 million last month. In percentage terms, we are still well below the U.S., since the number of twitterers Brazilian equivalent to 0.8% of the total, and only 6.6% of the world out public tweets here.
In the ranking of the 20 largest cities in the network, however, the country has two locations: St. Paul is in 4th and Rio de Janeiro in 16th.
To arrive at the numbers, the information disclosed Semiocast used by the users, such as language, time zone and location registered in the profile. Also enter the location used to post tweets via mobile devices, but only 0.77% of the public message has this data.
