Interesting indeed. Would be even more enlightening if analysed by social class. Are we reaching my grandmother - if we are looking at governance issues? Like Mpesa, how can we get the common mwananchi touse social media from their mobile phones? What we found from the research on ICTs and Governance is that it requires more than getting people to use technology......what matters is the extent to which their issues are actually addressed by authorities! So getting rid of impunity even online. I was once educated that IMPunity means the "Unity of IMPs" - the Unity of Devils! Edith ________________ Edith Ofwona Adera Senior Program Specialist ICT4D Program and Climate Change & Water Program International Development Research Centre | Centre de recherches pour le développement international Regional Office for Eastern and Southern Africa Tel: +254202713160 | Fax/Téléc: +254202711063 | Skype: edithadera [email protected] | www.idrc.ca | www.crdi.ca ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] [[email protected]] Sent: 03 May 2011 21:31 To: Edith Adera Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions Subject: [kictanet] Fw: [Skunkworks] TRENDY DESKTOP - HOW KENYANS TWEET: THE TOP TWITTERCLIENTS Very interesting study. Alice -----Original Message----- From: Jacob Ayienda <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 21:28:37 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: Skunkworks Mailing List <[email protected]> Subject: [Skunkworks] TRENDY DESKTOP - HOW KENYANS TWEET: THE TOP TWITTER CLIENTS TRENDY DESKTOP - HOW KENYANS TWEET: THE TOP TWITTER CLIENTS I looked at 15,000 tweets randomly collected at different intervals over the past month(April) and found several ways in which kenyans interact with the Twitter. These is a follow up to a previous analysis. Again, I used the Twittter API to monitor public feeds from the Kenyan locality. The tweets were randomly collected throughout the month (April) using Trendy Desktop. The results are attached as images. http://twitpic.com/4sffft What is most significant is the rise of fluppy (m.fluppy.me) an open source mobile web client with Snaptu previously the most popular falling sharply as well as twitter. What is most interesting is that over 80% of Kenyans tweet from their mobiles. Also included is an analysis of how different users interact with twitter http://twitpic.com/4rw7dz http://twitpic.com/4rvzlh http://twitpic.com/4rvwrc http://twitpic.com/4rufvh http://twitpic.com/4ruff4 http://twitpic.com/4ruejw http://twitpic.com/4rkzh2 http://twitpic.com/4rkxv3 http://twitpic.com/4rkx0v http:\\www.twitter.com\trendydesktop