Do you worry about your Twitter follower count?
While I am loathe to write a post about Twitter, here I am doing it. Yesterday I was kind of captivated and disgusted by Ad Age’s post Are We a Bunch of Twitter Snobs?
Captivating because it linked to the Harvard Business study which found that Twittering men have 15% more followers than women. The study also found:
that an 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. Finally, an average man is 40% more likely to be followed by another man than by a woman.
What most shocking about the study is they use the words men and women when maybe they should be using boys and girls, which brings me back to the Ad Age piece. The fact that someone whined in a public forum like Ad Age about how some Twitter users are snobby is so ridiculous I can’t help but laugh and burn with shame for that person.
Snobby!
It makes me wonder if actual real people (like you or me) really worry about follower counts and if we base our self-esteem on that. Or is follower count anxiety something that only plagues celebrities (Hollywood, Web, or otherwise), reporters, and, the scourge of the Internet, social media gurus?
Do you worry about it? Or, are you like me, amazed that anyone outside of your immediate family wants to listen to you go on and on about Frank Lloyd Wright Legos?
