Twitter users in Pakistan
According to some reports there are about 1.9M twitter users in Pakistan. This was mentioned by someone in #SOCMM12 but there doesn’t seem to be any source of this information.
I had been collecting twitter data for quite some time. Sample data contains more than 100K Pakistani twitter users crawled using twitter API. Only public profiles who have mentioned Pakistan or some pakistani city name in their profile were considered for this analysis. This data contains almost all active tweeple of Pakistan.
Here are the results of data analysis:
Geological location:
About half of Pakistani tweeps live in major cities like Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad/Rawalpindi.
- 24.5% in Punjab (just 64.4% of them in Lahore, rest in other cities of punjab)
- 21.6% in Sindh (with 92.6% of them in Karachi)
- 10.0% in Islamabad
- 2.6% in KPK (with 58.7% of them in Peshawar)
- 0.96% in Balochistan
- 0.45% in Azad Kashmir
Gender:
gender.c, with custom names database of more than 5,000 names, was used on first names in twitter profiles:
Names (first name):
Most common male names:
- Syed
- Ali
- Abdul
- Usman
- Imran
- Bilal
- Hassan
- Waqas
- Mohammad
- M
- salman
Most common female names:
- Ayesha
- sana
- Fatima
- Amna
- Noor
- Sara
- Hina
- Sarah
- Maryam
- Rabia
- Hira
- Sidra
Verified Twitter Accounts:
There are only 6 of them:
Who has the most followers in Pakistan?
As you can see from the results, follower count is no longer an influence measure. Our politicians and media person are running after the follower count. To achieve this, they hire services which artificially increase the follower count using some techniques or bogus accounts. By looking at the followers list of any famous politician, you’ll realize that many of the followers are with default dp, no follower, very few baseless statuses and a few tweeple following. I am trying to make a list with klout score of tweeps. This list will be published soon.
Here is a list of top Pakistani tweeple according to their follower count:
Note: The follower count may have increased or decreased by the time you’re reading this. Note2: If you feel that I have missed any person, please feel free to comment and I will update the list.
- @ImranKhanPTI - 410807 followers
- @KamalFaridi - 361204 followers
- @tariqnoorkhan - 264988 followers
- @AliZafarsays - 185403 followers
- @MubasherLucman - 150700 followers
- @ilovebenazir - 137361 followers
- @IhtishamKhan4U - 129611 followers
- @wasimakramlive - 111193 followers
- @fbhutto - 107669 followers
- @GizmoCrazed - 96746 followers
- @HamidMirGEO - 93936 followers
- @twitter_ur - 91618 followers
- @wordinvestor - 81079 followers
- @marvi_memon - 74384 followers
- @farhanmasood - 74039 followers
- @najamsethi - 69335 followers
- @ReallyVirtual - 67225 followers
- @PTIofficial - 57486 followers
- @husainhaqqani - 57301 followers
- @CMShehbaz - 55129 followers
- @sanabucha - 52948 followers
- @SenRehmanMalik - 50572 followers
- @TaimurAsad - 49346 followers
- @sherryrehman - 42597 followers
- @Emateinc - 41304 followers
- @BakhtawarBZ - 40733 followers
- @FarrukhSiddiqui - 38740 followers
- @TalatHussain12 - 38517 followers
- @AajKamranKhan - 37570 followers
- @HassanNisarPK - 36504 followers
- @zainshahzad3 - 36220 followers
- @DawarAShah - 35550 followers
- @PunjabiProblems - 34796 followers
- @Nadsms - 34631 followers
- @LinkedInExpert1 - 34147 followers
- @etribune - 32022 followers
- @SocializedWeb - 31959 followers
- @tweetfestme - 31134 followers
- @Asma_Jahangir - 29912 followers
- @BoomPakistan - 29755 followers
- @JahanzaibPTI - 29108 followers
- @marvisirmed - 28903 followers
- @ashraf_chaudhry - 28514 followers
- @onlywaqas - 28463 followers
- @shehrbanotaseer - 27868 followers
- @MaryamNSharif - 27574 followers
- @stepan_manukyan - 27404 followers
- @ShkhRasheed - 26863 followers
- @dawn_com - 26499 followers
- @Mehmal - 26293 followers
- @NasimZehra - 26064 followers
- @sharmilafaruqi - 25424 followers
- @NadeemfParacha - 25292 followers
When Pakistanis joined twitter?
Only 7 account were registered in 2006:
- @vak - Wed Aug 30 07:27:50 +0000 2006
- @ayazshah - Mon Oct 02 10:53:34 +0000 2006
- @KO - Tue Oct 10 08:35:25 +0000 2006
- @efrg - Thu Nov 23 08:32:41 +0000 2006
- @Nash - Fri Nov 24 20:15:26 +0000 2006
- @marsonearth - Tue Dec 05 14:03:11 +0000 2006
- @FreshFarhan - Sat Dec 23 18:36:01 +0000 2006
And then:
- In 2007, 324 accounts were registered
- In 2008, 1294 accounts were registered
- In 2009, 13677 accounts were registered
- In 2010, 24035 accounts were registered
- In 2011, 31659 accounts were registered
- In 2012, 34908 accounts were registered
Who tweets a lot?
Although this information is not important, just sharing it for fun. Most of the accounts in this list are bots. Skipping the bots and sharing the real persons only :-)
- @UsmanAnwar78 - 229893 tweets
- @cinema_fan - 189995 tweets
- @_Doc_AD - 189417 tweets
- @ManihaAamir - 183557 tweets
- @muhammadmunir89 - 153512 tweets
- @shobz - 151160 tweets
- @AhmedEmmar - 150208 tweets
- @mahobili - 148565 tweets
- @mehv_ - 121626 tweets
- @asim_ca3 - 118859 tweets
- @Ghulam_Rasool1 - 117490 tweets
- @AhtshamRana - 116238 tweets
- @criclivescore - 114714 tweets
- @ziaawan1 - 113313 tweets
- @asmiather - 113246 tweets
- @imtaqi - 103513 tweets
- @apnijobs - 103340 tweets
- @Pak_reuters - 100027 tweets
- @marvisirmed - 97732 tweets
Update: See [Part-II]