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Twitter Survey - Results!

  • Feb. 26th, 2008 at 5:53 PM
Blimey, I actually did it, huzzah! Thanks to the wonderful Chinwag for letting me use their servers to host.

You can download the report here:
Twitter Survey Report: Feb 2008

Please feel free to send on the report and data, and use it however you wish. All I ask is that you credit me somewhere suitable. Many thanks.

I hope you enjoy it, and here's a sneaky peak:
  • People mainly use Twitter mostly to see what their contacts are up to (50.6%).
  • Most respondents to this survey are followed by twice the amount of people (101-200 followers) than they follow themselves (51-100 followers).
  • You’re most likely to become un-followed if your Tweets aren’t deemed relevant to your followers
  • Half the respondents (48.5%) had Twittered drunk…
  • … Yet thankfully most people (65.7%) have never regretted a Twitter post
I'm now working on a much better and well thought out Twitter survey, and if you'd like to be involved with that please do let me know by either commenting on this post or emailing me thayer18 at yahoo dot com.

Thanks to everyone who took part, and passed this round their Twitter stream.

UPDATE - Blogs that are talking about the survey

I'm tracking these via Google Alerts, so if you've done a post and it's not here, just say and I'll add it.  Good to see everyone's views on it :-)

Comments

(Anonymous) wrote:
Feb. 26th, 2008 07:14 pm (UTC)
Congrats
Great to see a UK perspective on Twitter use.
Mike Butcher
[info]thayer18 wrote:
Feb. 26th, 2008 07:15 pm (UTC)
Re: Congrats
Thanks Mike.

No OpenId? Tut tut! ;-)
(Anonymous) wrote:
Feb. 27th, 2008 09:22 am (UTC)
Re: Congrats
I've got an open ID - I just couldn't be bothered to use it! :-)
(Anonymous) wrote:
Feb. 26th, 2008 09:55 pm (UTC)
count me in for Rnd 2 Thayer
nice work T.... :)
[info]thayer18 wrote:
Feb. 26th, 2008 10:44 pm (UTC)
Re: count me in for Rnd 2 Thayer
Thanks, I would do if I knew who you were :)
(Anonymous) wrote:
Feb. 26th, 2008 11:45 pm (UTC)
Re: count me in for Rnd 2 Thayer
oops, stevecla :)
[info]thayer18 wrote:
Feb. 27th, 2008 09:07 am (UTC)
Re: count me in for Rnd 2 Thayer
Another person I would have thought would have an OpenId! ;) Naughty!

Great stuff, thanks Steve, I'll drop you an email this afternoon.

(For anyone who doesn't know Steve:
http://blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/)
[info]webthreepointoh.blogspot.com wrote:
Feb. 27th, 2008 12:26 pm (UTC)
Twiiter's view
there was something in the Twitter newsletter today about twittering behaviour;
http://tinyurl.com/3crjdt
makes an interesting counterpoint.

brendan
(Anonymous) wrote:
Mar. 3rd, 2008 11:00 pm (UTC)
ping
I'm curious about your next survey and will be happy to be an outlyer. (still trying to 'get' twitter)
[info]radish66 wrote:
Mar. 3rd, 2008 11:19 pm (UTC)
ping2
Adding an ancient LJ account for an earlier anon ping...
(Anonymous) wrote:
Mar. 4th, 2008 07:47 pm (UTC)
Hi Thayer,

Would be happy to help you with the next survey

http://twitter.com/nickwilsdon

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