I really wonder what twitter’s user statistics look right now.

How many lurkers made or logged into accounts to be able to lurk? Can they distinguish between this and fake accounts being made to scrape twitter?

How many people left because they don’t want to tweet to a private audience?

How many people hit the login-wall and bounce off?

How much is Google’s policy of not surfacing pages behind a log-in wall in search results hurting them?

How much has the prevalence of embedding tweets in news articles been effected?

It would be a fascinating look at how social media users actually behave, the kind of experiment that no one till now has been stupid enough to run…