Twitter Investigation
Twitter Investigation. Day 130 million – or so it seems.
Okay, I have dipped my two into the pool of social media they call Twitter. I have rippled the surface of the Twitter pool with my investigative Poo Sticks to see which floats under the bridge the quickest – and why. Here are my conclusions:
98.9%, (perhaps a bit more), of people who have over 50 followers on Twitter have some kind of automation on their account. It’s just not practical/possible to keep Twittering to over 50 people on a personal 1-2-1 basis. Of course, if you’re a BIG business or celebrity you may hire a few cheap, (sorry – “out sourced”), overseas students to Tweet for you 24/7. But, in the main – there’s a whole lot of automation going on.
Interestingly, Twitter do say:
While we do welcome feed-based accounts, we discourage aggressive following and other tactics that will alarm people.
Of the 98.9% Twitter Automatons – most of them are trying to sell you something – or drive traffic to their website…. to sell you something there. Whilst, in principle, I commend the use of Twitter as a marketing tool, there are still some who actually see Twitter as to what it was originally designed/described to be:
Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read each others’ updates, known as tweets.
– and not the grossly over commercialised beast that it’s turning into.
I’m still experimenting with Twitter. If you want to be a real person and talk about real stuff – then come join me here: Paul Flanagan On Twitter – and no spamming please! 
p.s. yes that’s 3 underscores between Paul and Flanagan
