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On the social network site the women come and go, posting as Michelangelo
From an NYT blog post excerpting a new Harvard Business School study of Twitter as a social network:
Is that bolded part really true? The 'previous research' cited is a working paper that I can't find online, so it's not clear whether they're comparing Twitter to MySpace or Facebook, or to media sites like YouTube and Flickr.
Henry Wolfe is watching The Young and the Restless, just like me! Where the actor who plays Shawn's father on Psych just made a cameo as a priest. But he also talks about this -- which is a big part of why I got sucked into The Hills:
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.... Though these days even many of the vertical shows -- especially the most densely serialized -- unfold across the horizontal axis, with DVD commentaries and deleted/bonus scenes and interviews and online ARGs and character blogs.
“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.”
“[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.”
Is that bolded part really true? The 'previous research' cited is a working paper that I can't find online, so it's not clear whether they're comparing Twitter to MySpace or Facebook, or to media sites like YouTube and Flickr.
Henry Wolfe is watching The Young and the Restless, just like me! Where the actor who plays Shawn's father on Psych just made a cameo as a priest. But he also talks about this -- which is a big part of why I got sucked into The Hills:
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....
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(There was one in either Time or Newsweek recently about how Twitter is better than Facebook because Facebook has lots of over-30 users. As I said to my spouse, isn't that what you'd want, because over-30s have a lot more disposable income than teenagers. But there may be dynamics I'm just not getting....)
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Also, the "if you're an older user and would like to participate in my study" thing kind of makes me grouchy.
ETA the Time article in question.
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...am I?
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Heh. I empathize with that -- every time I get nostalgic for the X-Men and think about picking up an issue or two, I realize that I wouldn't even know which title to choose.
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