On Monday, the Harvard Business school posted a “conversation starter” study on gender differences in Twitter use. The authors found that “men have 15% more followers than women” and “an average man is almost twice as likely to follow another man than a woman.” The authors suggest, without empirical data, that men find the content [...]
Over the past few days, I’ve seen a few blog posts referencing various “studies” that claim that young people don’t use Twitter. Apparently, this is a problem.
As reported on CNET, “99 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds have profiles on social networks, only 22 percent use Twitter, according to a new survey from Pace University and [...]
Nancy Baym has hit the nail on the head with her post “Blogs vs Twitter? It’s the Interactivity.” As the title states, she takes on the Blogs vs. Twitter discussion, highlighting differences and concluding (correctly) that Twitter isn’t the death of blogging. I like points 1, 3 and 7:
1) Twitter isn’t a substitute for blogging. [...]
Via Waxy:
BackTweets, search for links on Twitter (unlike Twitter Search, this dereferences links from URL shorteners like TinyURL)
Something I asked for a long time ago. Don’t know why Twitter search still doesn’t do this, perhaps now they will. Great execution, smart defaults, instantly indispensable for anyone monitoring Twitter. Excellent.
David Silver is using Twitter in his media studies classes (check out the amazing “Eating San Francisco”). Twitter is the class’ main mode of communication, and he writes that Twitter has replaced three classroom technologies:
twitter has replaced the class listserv. for years, i’ve used a listserv (alternatively called a mailing list or discussion list) to [...]
As of December 2008, 11% of online American adults said they used a service like Twitter or another service that allowed them to share updates about themselves or to see the updates of others.
Twitter and similar services have been most avidly embraced by young adults. Nearly one in five (19%) online adults ages 18 and [...]
When describing Twitter, I use a number of analogies. Most commonly, I think of Twitter as something like a slow-motion chatroom, or even a collection of away messages. I’ve got another one to add to this list: subject-only email.
This new analogy actually comes from my use of the iPhone, where the Twitter interface [...]
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