{"id":577,"date":"2009-06-01T16:10:19","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T21:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poojanwagh.opalstacked.com\/poojanblog\/?p=577"},"modified":"2009-06-01T16:10:19","modified_gmt":"2009-06-01T21:10:19","slug":"harvardbusiness-study-10-of-twitter-produces-90-of-tweets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/harvardbusiness-study-10-of-twitter-produces-90-of-tweets\/","title":{"rendered":"HarvardBusiness Study: 10% of twitter produces 90% of tweets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just read <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.harvardbusiness.org\/cs\/2009\/06\/new_twitter_research_men_follo.html\">New Twitter Research: Men Follow Men and Nobody Tweets &#8211; Conversation Starter &#8211; HarvardBusiness.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A few things strike me about the results:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>It meets the <del>80\/20<\/del> 90\/10 rule.<\/li>\n<li>Twitter is basically a broadcast service&#8211;not a one-on-one messaging tool.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>#2 strikes me because I&#8217;ve always seen myself as an outsider. I&#8217;ve always felt that there <em>must<\/em> be a large contingent of twitter users that use twitter to tell their friends where they&#8217;re meeting for drinks tonight.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve told friends that the only thing they&#8217;ll get from me on twitter is spam. (That&#8217;s a bit facetious: I&#8217;d like to think that my blog posts have intellectual value that <del>informing people that they can proffer money in exchange for retail products<\/del> advertisements do not.) If I were a corporation, they&#8217;d be filled with tons of marketing.<\/p>\n<p>I suspected that <em>I&#8217;m<\/em> not getting this utility out of twitter because my friends aren&#8217;t on there, sharing in dialog.<\/p>\n<p>What I realize now is that there&#8217;s a sort of myth behind twitter: it&#8217;s generally being used as a broadcast medium. In that respect, it seems less useful for my socializing: I don&#8217;t really care what most of my friends are doing each night in Chicago. I&#8217;m not in Chicago most nights. If I have a night available to meet up with friends, I&#8217;ve already pre-arranged it.<\/p>\n<p>Incidently, I learned about this post from http:\/\/twitter.com\/HarvardBiz\/status\/1995340326<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just read New Twitter Research: Men Follow Men and Nobody Tweets &#8211; Conversation Starter &#8211; HarvardBusiness.org. A few things strike me about the results: It meets the 80\/20 90\/10 rule. Twitter is basically a broadcast service&#8211;not a one-on-one messaging tool. #2 strikes me because I&#8217;ve always seen myself as an outsider. I&#8217;ve always felt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,6],"tags":[157,118],"class_list":["post-577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-behavior","category-web","tag-harvard-business","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":578,"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions\/578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poojanblog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}