Peering into the Mind of Twitter Users
The PsyBlog has an interesting post offering 10 psychological insights into the use of Twitter. Some may be relevant for cognitive designers working on twitter applications. Here are a few examples:
- Most people join because their friends did and its free
- Trends (specific topics) last only a few days
- Tweets are most babble (41%) and conversational (38%)
- Most people just watch (follow) and on average only send one tweet, ever!
Interested to hear from readers that have found scientific studies of Twitter that give psychological insight into its use.