Analysis of All Verified Twitter Accounts

peerreach.com PEERREACH 50,000 VERIFIED TWITTER ACCOUNTS As of April 2013, 50,000 accounts on Twitter are now registered as verified. This means simply that those accounts definitely belong to the people or organizations that they say they are. So what do we know about these 50,000 accounts? The growth Adele Dec 2012 60K Bill Gates 50K Jan 2010 40K ЗОк Barack Obama Aug 2009 20K 10K 2013 Jan 2012 May 2011 Sep 2011 Jan 2010 May 2009 Sep Number of verified accounts Became verified The average following 1 Million + 2.5% Im - 100k 15.6% 100k-10k 33.5% 10k-1k 31% Under 1k 17.4% The location United States Canada United Kingdom 45% 4% 20% France Germany Other Australia 4% 18% 7% The sectors Music 17% Television 6% Government 5% Sports 8% Everything else 64% The most followers Name Twitter name Followers Justin Bieber @justinbieber 37 million 2 Lady Gaga @ladygaga 36 million Barack Obama @BarackObama 30 million 4 Rihanna @rihanna 29 million 5 YouTube @YouTube 26 million The most influential Name Number one in Followers Barack Obama 1 Politics 30 million @BarackObama Jimmy Fallon @jimmyfallon Entertainment 9 million Conan O'Brien Television 8 million @ConanOBrien The NY Times Journalism 8 million @nytimes Shaquille O'Neal @SHAQ Sports 7 million ONLY 0.005% OF TWITTER ACCOUNTS ARE VERIFIED PEERREACH Produced in association with Starcom peerreach.com