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New Twitter Research: Men Follow Men and Nobody Tweets (harvardbusiness.org)
17 points by hellacious on June 1, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


The instant headline from this, for me, is that 10% of Twitter users use it to talk: 90% use it, if at all, to read.

There's probably something deep here: about the difference between Facebook-style reciprocal friending, where you're probably talking with people you know pretty well, and Web/pub-sub style "give me these messages, please" arrangements like Twitter, and the dynamics behind these two media.

Twitter feels like a performance space; Facebook really doesn't. Myspace, if you're on there as a musician, is somewhere in between...




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