For long there was no real statistics about local Twitter usage except for where we ranked in the world, but a company called Fuseware has changed that.

Fuseware has profiled millions of tweets and thousands of local Twitter users during March and April 2010 to help us better understand the local South African Twitter user.

According to Fuseware there are 55000 active Twitter users in South Africa with about 1.5 million tweets being sent each month. Twitter is currently South Africa’s 7th most visited site with 4.5% of all local sites referencing content from Twitter.

South African Twitter users mostly tweet during 7AM and 12PM daily and also at night between 7 and 8PM. The most popular days to tweet is Tuesdays and Fridays with weekends being less active than during the week.

Most of South African Twitter users are located in Cape Town with Johannesburg following closely. It is clear that tweeting is confined to developed cities and Information Technology hubs, while users in cities like Pretoria, East London and Port Elizabeth does not take that much interest in the social networking platform.

For a detailed presentation on the state of the South African Twittersphere check out the Fuseware South African Twitter Report here.

You can follow me on Twitter here.

MyScoop the new South African blog aggregator and social bookmarking site by Nicolas Duncan has built upon what the community requested.

MyScoop launched about a month ago with limited functionality just as Amatomu shut its doors. The blog aggregator started out with only functionality to fetch the latest blog entries from subscribed blogs and displaying it. Now things has changed and on track to provide the same functionality that Afrigator has to offer and Amatomu used to offer.

Nicolas Duncan has improved MyScoop allot during the last month and added a badge and ranking system. MyScoop now has the ability to keep track of your site hits and what pages users access on your blog. MyScoop also introduced a ranking system that keeps track of what blogs is most popular and what blog posts receives the most traffic, they also added a stats section to the control panel that shows you how many hits your site had on different dates.

The possibilities are endless now that MyScoop has the badge system in place and can gather all sorts of stats from your blog to display to you. What I would like to see is perhaps a Unique visits and Page views combined graph, and maybe one to display weekly, monthly and yearly stats.

Also perhaps Nicolas can provide us with some insight as to how the ranking of the blogs is calculated.

If you have any suggestions about features you would like to see on MyScoop, please leave a comment.

Wanna see how many users are downloading Firefox 3.5 right now?

Mozilla launched http://downloadstats.mozilla.com/ so users can see in real-time how many downloads are happening of the new Firefox 3.5 release. What it does is display the amount of Firefox 3.5 downloads per second happening, grouping it by country aswell. It also shows the total amount of downloads completed per country.

By the time I posted this entry there was already 747000 downloads completed, from which South Africa contributed 1300. Not bad considering the download is only available for a few hours now. Go check out the live stats at http://downloadstats.mozilla.com/