Bellevue Tweet Up Statistics

I was recently sent the following email from my good friend and Bellevue Tweet-Up Co-organizer Jean-Luc David of Microsoft. Jean-Luc and I met on Twitter and one day over coffee we were discussing the fact that there wasn't a regular event on the Eastside. We decided to create our own and are about to put on our seventh one this month.

I hope you find as much value in this information as Jean-Luc and I did. It's nice to see something you helped to create flourish like this.

Hey Steven,

Thought I would share some interesting stats with you. Total of 863 tweets and 320 attendee confirmations across 6 Bellevue Tweetup events.

Breakdown:

• Bellevue Tweetup 6.0 (http://twtvite.com/8aslat) - 140 Tweets/Mentions, 55 Confirmed Attendees
• Bellevue Tweetup 5.0 (http://twtvite.com/5q3ngp) - 78 Tweets/Mentions, 33 Confirmed Attendees
• Bellevue Tweetup 4.0 (http://twtvite.com/jl8r4f) - 183 Tweets/Mentions, 54 Confirmed Attendees
• Bellevue Tweetup 3.0 (http://twtvite.com/w51zy6) - 87 Tweets/Mentions, 50 Confirmed Attendees
• Bellevue Tweetup 2.0 (http://twtvite.com/0laloj) - 258 Tweets/Mentions, 82 Confirmed Attendees
• Bellevue Tweetup 1.0 (http://twtvite.com/sjcvj9) - 117 Tweets/Mentions, 46 Confirmed Attendees

Online References:

• Promo from influentials such as Chris Pirillo - example: http://www.koornk.com/status/630061/ http://chris.pirillo.com/social-media-updates-for-2009-06-21/
• Mashable (photos not visible): http://my.mashable.com/photo/view/id/7902bb56eb5ed42619bab6d3834c8697/page/4
• East Side Journal: http://eastsidebusinessjournal.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3237&Itemid=2
• Bill Wixley (Q13 Reporter): http://blog.billwixey.com/2009/07/04/a-little-help-from-my-friends.aspx
• Social Media Club Seattle: http://twitter.com/SMCSeattle/statuses/4150301122
• Photos from the events: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jldavid/collections/72157622082077366/

Conclusions:

• Bellevue Tweetup 2.0 got high interest, attendance and “juice” due to several mentions by Chris Pirillo. We should get him promoting & involved at our future events.
• The events you organize tend to have more attendees. The tweet count is also higher and it appears you tweet more about the events when you directly organize them. ;-)
• The average number of attendees at our events is 53 and we on average get 144 tweets. We don’t appear to be increasing or decreasing attendees - seems to be relatively constant.

Cheers,

Jean-Luc David
Field Readiness & Community Team | Developer & Platform Evangelism