The number of Russian language Twitter accounts exceeded 1 million in July, reveals a report by Yandex, the top Russian Internet search company whose offerings include a function that searches blogs and forums.
Russian speaking users send 370,000 tweets daily. 8% are retweets and about one third are replies to other tweets. The average tweet has 78 characters.
In March 2010, Yandex counted 183,000 Russian-language Twitter accounts – up from just around 7,000 in March 2009 – and 150,000 tweets daily. The proportion of active users on a daily basis has significantly decreased, from 60% to just 6%, concludes the study.
Twitter was founded in 2006, but the US microblogging service launched its Russian version only last April.
