Since its inception five years ago, Twitter has truly transformed the face of modern communication. Today, with over 200 million users sending an estimated 190 million tweets a day, it’s easy to understand why Twitter is often referred to as ‘The SMS of the Internet’. There are a bunch of iPhone apps out there, such as TweetDeck (now a Twitter company), Echofon, HootSuite, Twitterrific, TweetBot, others – to help you tweet more easily.
At Onavo we believe an app needs to be valued by more than a sleek UI or advanced features, but also by its data usage, that is how it consumes data. We ran a little test in our labs, comparing the four popular Twitter clients for iPhone: Twitter for iPhone, TweetDeck, TweetBot and Echofon, examining how each consumes data (by following a simple scenario) – so you will know which app is most data efficient.
The results were pretty amazing:
- The most popular client is the official Twitter for iPhone, with a staggering 65% share, followed by TweetDeck and TweetBot (8% each) and Echofon (4%)
- However, Twitter for iPhone is the worst when it comes to data usage, consuming more than double the data compared to the most efficient app – TweetDeck. So Twitter buying TweetDeck is definitely a good thing…
- And the bonus – if you use Onavo, you can save an additional 65% on TweetDeck!
Scroll down for the full Onavo Insights report.
June 23, 2011 at 4:35 pm, Twitter voor iPhone blijkt dataslurper | Twittermania said:
[...] voor de iPhone heeft in vergelijking met andere apps een heel hoog dataverbruik. Dat blijkt uit een vergelijking door het Amerikaanse bedrijf Onavo. Dat bekeek vier populaire Twitter-apps, van Twitter zelf, [...]
June 23, 2011 at 5:10 pm, Data hog! Twitter’s own iPhone app uses twice the data of Tweetdeck said:
[...] In fact the official Twitter App uses double the data of the Tweetdeck iPhone app, according to a new study by mobile data management startup Onavo. Perhaps it’s just as well Twitter bought Tweetdeck [...]
June 23, 2011 at 6:07 pm, willettjf said:
Can you share data usage for the other apps? Hootsuite, in particular. Also, how do push notifications play into the equation?
June 23, 2011 at 10:31 pm, Twitter On iPhone By The Numbers [Infographic] | GiveMeMind said:
[...] 2011, in News, by Matthew Who of us doesn’t enjoy Twitter? Well according to a study by mobile data management startup Onavo, Twitter by iPhone uses twice the data on your iDevice then [...]
June 23, 2011 at 10:42 pm, 従量課金の方は要注意：iPhone用Twitter純正クライアントのデータ通信量はTweetdeckの2倍 said:
[...] Twitterがさまざまな機能を追加しつつサードパーティー製アプリケーションにプレッシャーをかけていることはよくご存知だろう。ところがTwitter製のアプリケーションこそ問題なのではないかというデータがでてきた。モバイル環境のデータマネジメントサービスを提供するOnavoの最新レポートによれば、Twitter社製のiPhoneクライアントは、iPhone用Tweetdeckに比べて倍のデータを消費するらしいのだ。TwitterがTweetdeckを買収したのには、この辺の事情もあるのかもしれない。 [...]
June 24, 2011 at 2:42 am, iPhone Games » Twitter on iPhone: By the Numbers [Infographic] said:
[...] folks at Onavo Insights have put together a nice infographic detailing Twitter’s statistics on the iPhone. Check it [...]
June 24, 2011 at 3:20 am, Twitter on iPhone: By the Numbers [Infographic] | PCE Groups, LLC said:
[...] folks at Onavo Insights have put together a nice infographic detailing Twitter’s statistics on the iPhone. Check it [...]
June 24, 2011 at 4:15 am, With Twitter Apps, Is Bigger Always Better? -- AppAdvice said:
[...] us more. But, the social networking site probably didn’t have this in mind. According to a new Onavo survey, among Twitter apps for the iPhone/iPod touch, it is Twitter’s own that hogs up the [...]
June 24, 2011 at 4:28 am, With Twitter Apps, Is Bigger Always Better? : Mac Plazza – Super Sale for Mac said:
[...] us more. But, the social networking site probably didn’t have this in mind. According to a new Onavo survey, among Twitter apps for the iPhone/iPod touch, it is Twitter’s own that hogs up the [...]
June 24, 2011 at 4:35 am, iPhoneでTwitterを使う人のうち、65％が純正クライアントを利用 | gori.me said:
[...] for iPhoneの4割程度に抑えられている。 【img via Onavo】 [...]
June 24, 2011 at 11:01 am, To TweetDeck στο iPhone καταναλώνει τα λιγότερα δεδομένα σε σχέση με τις υπόλοιπες | iPhone Hellas said:
[...] [via Onavo] [...]
June 24, 2011 at 11:13 am, News | Twitter su iPhone: con i numeri. said:
[...] Echofon, Tweetbot, ecc tutti prestano grande attenzione all’App Store di Apple. I ragazzi di OnavoInsights hanno messo insieme una statistica dettagliato con immagini di Twitter su iPhone. Vediamo [...]
June 24, 2011 at 11:21 am, [Infografik] Twitternutzung auf dem iPhone » Von Palme » iShare-News.de said:
[...] in Ländern wie Spanien, den Niederlanden oder Großbritannien sieht es mit >30% schon anders aus. Onavo hat dazu nun eine Infografik erstellt, mit einer detaillierten Statistik zur Nutzung von Twitter [...]
June 24, 2011 at 11:40 am, Data hog! Twitter’s own iPhone app uses twice the data of Tweetdeck « Bellwort Technologies Pvt. Ltd. said:
[...] In fact the official Twitter App uses double the data of the Tweetdeck iPhone app, according to a new study by mobile data management startupOnavo. Perhaps it’s just as well Twitter bought [...]
June 24, 2011 at 1:01 pm, Twitter On The iPhone: Which Data-Hogging App Costs You The Most Money? [INFOGRAPHIC] - AllTwitter said:
[...] (Source: Onavo.com.) [...]
June 24, 2011 at 1:02 pm, Onavo מגיעה לאנדרואיד [הזמנות לבטא] | Newsgeek said:
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June 24, 2011 at 1:04 pm, Twitter on iPhone: By the Numbers [Infographic] | APPLIPHILIA said:
[...] folks at Onavo Insights have put together a nice infographic detailing Twitter’s statistics on the iPhone. Check it [...]
June 24, 2011 at 5:33 pm, Usage de l’Iphone pour Twitter (Infographie) | Iphone Radar said:
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June 24, 2011 at 7:39 pm, Infographic でみる iPhone で Twitter « やっぱりマックでしょ！ said:
[...] で一番使ってるソフト Twitter かも？と思う人も結構いるかと思います。Onavo Insights の人たちが、Tritter に関する数字を Infographic [...]
June 25, 2011 at 12:07 am, El Blog Geek! » Blog Archive » Twitter for Iphone consume más datos que TweetDeck - "Nunca confíes en una computadora que no puedas lanzar por una ventana" Steve Wozniak said:
[...] for iphone” la app oficial de twitter para iphone gasta más datos que TweetDeck por ejemplo. Un estudio realizado por Onavo demostró que la app oficial de twitter consume 193.2 KB en cada actualización [...]
June 25, 2011 at 10:44 am, Aplicacion twitter consume el doble de datos said:
[...] Vía: Blog de Onavo [...]
June 27, 2011 at 8:06 am, iPhone 平台上 Twitter 客户端的占有率和流量对比 | 爱范儿 · Beats of Bits said:
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June 28, 2011 at 12:57 am, La app oficial de Twitter consume más del doble de datos que TweetDeck | solo-iphone.com said:
[...] Vía: Blog de Onavo (http://blog.onavo.com/2011/06/which-twitter-client-is-a-data-hog-infographic/). [...]
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July 07, 2011 at 3:30 am, 8+ Tips For Managing Your Mobile Data Usage | TechnoBuffalo said:
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