News and updates from Google

Information

The most important piece here is the join date. The longer they're on Twitter the better. Spam accounts and robots tend to get suspended after a couple of weeks.

At a Glance
Name A Googler Verified
Joined Twitter on Tue Feb 10 19:14:39 +0000 2009
Location Mountain View, CA
Timezone Pacific Time (US & Canada)
Language English language preference
Bio News and updates from Google
URL www.google.com/support/

Statistics

More followers is good, but watch out for the follower-to-following ratio. A high ratio means that more people are following @google out of good will, not follow-back.

Every Tweet Counts
Tweets 3,451
Followers 4,717,773
Following 367
Followers ratio 12,854.97 followers per following
Listed 76,253

Topics

The topics section shows the overall words usage on Twitter in form of a tag cloud. The more a certain word is used, the larger it is in the cloud.

# Hashtags

Tagging is not essential to Twitter, but can definitely grow your reach.

@ Mentions

This section shows the user profiles that @google has interacted with.

Mentions and @replies means Interactions

Tip Clicking on a user, will take you to their Foller.me profile. Use Ctrl+Click (or Cmd+Click for Mac users) to open in a new tab.

100 Tweets

New! We looked inside some of the tweets by @google and here's what we found interesting.

Inside a Hundred Tweets
Replies 0 / 100
Tweets with @mentions 41 / 100
Tweets with #hashtags 12 / 100
Retweets 8 / 100 were retweets by @google
Tweets with links 96 / 100
Tweets with media 6 / 100
Most linked domains goo.gl, g.co, google.com, howtogomo.com, www.guidetotheappgalaxy.com, playmapscube.com, google.fr, twitter.com
Twitter clients usage web, Twitter for Android

Tips Mentions are good but replies means they really talk to people. 100/100 links probably means the account is automated or semi-automated. Media includes photos, videos, etc. Hover over the links to see their usage.

Attitude

New! People tend to use emoticons or smilies in their tweets. Here's how @google uses them.

Happy Tweets vs. Sad Tweets
  :) 0/ 0
incl. similar happy faces

  :( 0/ 0
incl. similar sad faces

Time

New! This bar chart shows the activity time based on the latest tweets. Careful about timezones.

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NoteTimezone shown is UTC+0. Current UTC time is 13:02:19 +0000. The world clock can help you compare different timezones. If the tweets are spread evenly across the full 24 hour span, chances are that it's been set up to tweet automatically.

Followers

The pins on this map show where the user's followers are based.

Followers Map

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