Twitter poll

[pne]

Some people use Twitter a lot, some use it rarely… I’m not sure whether it’s my generation or what, but using it multiple times in a hour, perhaps even for nearly-real-time conversations, seems strange to me; it’s not something I’m used to.

What’s your Twitter usage?

Poll #9707 Twitter

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 20

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Do you have a Twitter account?

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Nope.
4 (20.0%)

Yep!
16 (80.0%)

Yep! Several, in fact.
0 (0.0%)

What’s a Twitter?
0 (0.0%)

Twitter killed my father, you insensitive clod!
0 (0.0%)

How often do you post on Twitter, on average?

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About every 2 minutes (all the time)
0 (0.0%)

About every 3 minutes (about 20 times an hour)
0 (0.0%)

About every 5 minutes (about 12 times an hour)
0 (0.0%)

About every 8 minutes (about 8 times an hour)
0 (0.0%)

About every 13 minutes (about 4 times an hour)
0 (0.0%)

About every 21 minutes (about 3 times an hour)
0 (0.0%)

About every 34 minutes (about twice an hour)
0 (0.0%)

About every 55 minutes (about once an hour, or about 25 times a day)
1 (5.0%)

About every 89 minutes (about 15 times a day)
0 (0.0%)

About every 144 minutes (about 10 times a day)
0 (0.0%)

About every 233 minutes (about 6 times a day)
0 (0.0%)

About every 377 minutes (about 4 times a day)
2 (10.0%)

About every 610 minutes (twice a day or so)
1 (5.0%)

About every 987 minutes (once or twice a day, or about 10 times a week)
0 (0.0%)

About every 1597 minutes (once a day or so, or about 6 times a week)
0 (0.0%)

About every 2584 minutes (about 4 times a week)
0 (0.0%)

About every 4181 minutes (2 or 3 times a week)
4 (20.0%)

About every 6765 minutes (once or twice a week, or about 6 times a month)
2 (10.0%)

About every 10946 minutes (about once a week, or about 4 times a month)
0 (0.0%)

About every 17711 minutes (2 or 3 times a month)
1 (5.0%)

About every 28657 minutes (once or twice a month, or about 18 times a year)
2 (10.0%)

About every 46368 minutes (about once a month, or about 11 times a year)
2 (10.0%)

About every 75025 minutes (about 7 times a year)
0 (0.0%)

About every 121393 minutes (about 4 times a year, or about once a season)
1 (5.0%)

About every 196418 minutes (2 or 3 times a year)
0 (0.0%)

About every 317811 minutes (once or twice a year)
0 (0.0%)

About every 514229 minutes (about once a year)
0 (0.0%)

About every 832040 minutes (about twice in 3 years)
0 (0.0%)

About every 1346269 minutes (about twice in 5 years)
0 (0.0%)

About every 2178309 minutes (every 4 years or so)
0 (0.0%)

About every 3524578 minutes (every 7 years or so)
0 (0.0%)

About every 5702887 minutes (every 10 years or so)
0 (0.0%)

About every 9227465 minutes (every 20 years or so)
0 (0.0%)

About every 14930352 minutes (every 30 years or so)
0 (0.0%)

About every 24157817 minutes (every 50 years or so)
0 (0.0%)

About every 39088169 minutes (maybe once in my life)
0 (0.0%)

Never have, never will.
0 (0.0%)

I said I haven’t got a Twitter account!
4 (20.0%)

Also, if you want to follow me, I’m “mizinamo” on Twitter. I very rarely post, though, and don’t read very often. But I do tend to add people I like, as a kind of marker of friendship; just be aware that it’s not a very efficient way of communicating with me :)

So, if you want, let me know what your Twitter account is, if I’m not following you already! Comments are screened. (Let me know if you want a comment unscreened.)

Comments

[asciident]

My usage varies a bit I guess; some days I only post once or twice (or only RT a few times) but still read it all day. Other days I'm chatty and RTing a lot too. My answer was based on the last 24 hours. :)

I do like to treat Twitter as the occasional real-time conversation platform, but I like it even more as an asynchronous conversation platform. And I very much like the RT mechanism (which is, I think, at least partially why I post to Tumblr and Pinterest way more than anywhere else besides Twitter).

[asciident]

[I can't edit comments on DW atm.] Oh you can make my comment unscreened, and this one too. Twitter name is the predictable 'asciident'. :)

[steorra]

(You can unscreen this.)

I've long had a kind of fantasy about a conlang twitter - a conlang that makes use of unicode and especially logographic characters to make a new language with a logographic script that can pack as much information as possible into the limited characters of a tweet. I have never actually tried this, though.

[sophie]

I've never enumerated my Twitter usage as a Fibonacci number before. ;p

[pne]

I wanted some sort of logarithmically equally-spaced scale.

I thought of using preferred numbers at first, but this is geekier :)

The inspiration came from an article I read somewhere on agile software development, specifically on estimating project duration; apparently, there’s a method where you have to estimate using Fibonacci numbers, under the theory that the longer something takes, the less accurate you can be about the exact duration, so forcing you to round to the nearest Fibonacci number is a good way of reminding you that it’s a ballpark number they’re after.

[kake]

123 times (including retweets) in February, which had 29 days, works out to about 4 a day. I am Kake on Twitter and have just followed you. Fine to unscreen!