Harvard’s Twitter Research: Most Seldom Tweet And Men Follow Men
A new Harvard Business School based study of 300,000 random Twitter users in May of 2009 provided some interesting results.
Among Twitter users, the median number of lifetime tweets per user is one.
the top 10% of prolific Twitter users accounted for over 90% of tweets.
80% are followed by or follow at least one user. By comparison, only 60-65% of other online social networks' members had at least one friend (when these networks were at a similar level of development). This suggests that actual users (as opposed to the media at large) understand how Twitter works.
Although men and women follow a similar number of Twitter users, men have 15% more followers.
An average man is almost twice more likely to follow another man than a woman.
On a typical online social network, most of the activity is focused around women – men follow content produced by women they do and do not know, and women follow content produced by women they know.
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A new Harvard Business School based study of 300,000 random Twitter users in May of 2009 provided some interesting results.