“Although men and women follow a similar number of Twitter users, men have 15% more followers than women. Men also have more reciprocated relationships, in which two users follow each other.”

 “[A]n average man is almost twice more likely to follow another man than a woman. Similarly, an average woman is 25% more likely to follow a man than a woman.”

“These results are stunning given what previous research has found in the context of online social networks. 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.”

While I have no problem with vertical shows (The Wire and Big Love are both excellent, classic television), I think that the horizontal show is a better form for now, a more contemporary television experience.... Horizontal shows, on the other hand, require thought and interpretation and research to watch and understand and even just to follow, because, the thing is, the shows are never giving you the whole truth or the whole meaning, if that truth or meaning even exists, they’re constantly requiring you to interpret and make connections to try to get at this truth, and in doing so, they create this huge audience experience that doesn’t have to be contained within the hour that the show is on every week or the television that you watch it on, that is spread through the culture and the internet and is generated by press outlets and bloggers and Twitterers as well as the show’s producers, that is constantly changing and developing hour by hour and requiring your attention and thought, that instead of allowing you to forget about the characters until you tune in next week is always pinging your headspace (and your email, and your favorite blog) with micro plot developments and extra details and feints and falsehoods that you have to keep in your mind to judge against what you’ve seen on TV, assaulting your consciousness with its presence....