Persians are on Twitter (active with 6,000+ posts, about 1/2 of Scoble's 12,000+ posts), however, they have a more active network on FriendFeed; e.g. one guy is following 182 on Twitter, and 282 on FriendFeed. Might be some of FriendFeed's early adopters. :-) - Mitchell Tsai

Many Persian FriendFeed accounts (esp. female) have private feeds. Unfortunately, I can't run Felix's script even if I have access to the private feed. Many thanks to Felix. His script made it really easy to do some Social Network Analysis. - Mitchell Tsai

Some heavy Persian users (total comments & likes): mhmazidi 6,576 - maryam5063 6,295 - amirbeitollashi 5,372 - foadsa 4,859 - selma 3,782 - maryamsharif 3,052 - kuleposhti 2,378 - pendramveisi 2,318 - lukadium 2,210 - adomide 2,006 [Note: For privacy reasons, I'm not including people with private feeds, which includes 2+ others in the 2,000-5,000 area] - Mitchell Tsai

In comparison, some heavy US users (total comments & likes): Louis Gray 3,340 - Robert Scoble 3,217 - Susan Beebe 2,641 - Shey 2,468 - Mitchell Tsai

Here's a FriendFeed Stats room (Iran, 54 people) http://friendfeed.com/e... http://friendfeed.com/rooms... and a FriendFeed Stats room (US, 6 people) which Andrew Smith just started http://friendfeed.com/rooms... - Mitchell Tsai

We've also launched some kind of news agency. It's called ttffnews. The main source of the Agency's news and reports are twitter updates and the comments and likes of the Iranian community on friendfeed. Here's the address: http://ttffnews.com - Maryam Ardakani

@maryam5063 Thanks Maryam - Mitchell Tsai

The Persian Twitter users [# msgs, volume in millions of msgs] - foadsa 8,075 (3.6M) - maryam5063 6,105 (2.7M) - Pedram 5,083 - amirbeitollashi 4,244 - kuleposhti 3,873 - Mitchell Tsai

US Twitter users are 50-100X heavier - Robert Scoble 12,346 (320 Million) - Guy Kawasaki 14,322 (186M) - Chris Pirillo 13,470 (165M) - Chris Brogan 18,259 (160M) - Jason Calacanis 4,618 (125M) - Jim Long 18.191 (117M) - Bloggers Blog 9,931 (106M) - TWIT Live 9,753 (104M) = ~1.3 Billion outgoing messages to followers (Actual number of msgs probably 50-75% lower because #followers increases over time) - Mitchell Tsai