Twittering: Women 2 Follow Wednesdays

Although women often have more living friends than men, women lose in the follower competition.

Apparently, men have 15% more friends picking up their twitter feeds.  A Harvard Business School student just published a study suggesting that women and men use twitter differently.  There are 55% of women on Twitter vs. 45% of men.  Men tend to reciprocate following more than women.

Both men and women are more likely to follow men more.  Which is all the more reason to participate in women2follow Wednesdays. Women tweet out other women to follow.

For Women 2 Follow to work better, it might be good idea to tell others  what the recommended woman tweets about.  Also, the study suggests that women may not give as much interesting biographical details--too modest maybe? That's easy to correct.

The study raises some more questions:  did they get the gender count right?  I think many women use non-gendered names  or ther business names in their feeds. Also, is twitter  used more by men because it's more of a productive space rather than a connective space? 


http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/cs/2009/06/new_twitter_research_men_follo.html