On Twitterquette

Thayer Driver has done a great survey of Twitter behaviour....her heads up on her blog over here is:

- People mainly use Twitter mostly to see what their contacts are up to (50.6%).
- Most respondents to this survey are followed by twice the amount of people (101-200 followers) than they follow themselves (51-100 followers).
- You’re most likely to become un-followed if your Tweets aren’t deemed relevant to your followers
- Half the respondents (48.5%) had Twittered drunk…
- … Yet thankfully most people (65.7%) have never regretted a Twitter post

However, far more detailed and interesting to study is the full report, on PDF over here. I was most curious about the "Bad Behaviours" on Twitter, most specifically what makes people stop following someone. Results are:



Relevance is a big thing, clearly - both volume and value - and I suspect its the belated realisation by early adopters that the contents of their lunchbag etc are of minimal interest to others that has driven what to me is Twitter's greatest shift over the last year, i.e. people actually starting to talk about useful stuff and not the drivel it initially sarted with.