The dreaded Gender Imbalance
Someone wandered into the shop office, peered over my shoulder, saw the TweetDeck screen, and commented: “A lot of women.”
“A ‘lot’,” I noted, “is in the eye of the beholder,” but given the relative ease with which I am propelled into vaguely-related activities, later I went down through the list of people/places/things I follow on Twitter and counted the recognizable females.
The tally: 135 out of 249. Which, if you’re keeping score, is 54 percent. Not an overwhelming majority, but clearly a majority.
I wonder if I should have tried to argue that, well, the ladies talk more.
HeatherRadish »
11 December 2009 · 10:41 am
Apparently there’s more women than men on Twitter, although this article doesn’t give the percentages.
I wonder what would happen if I took the gender references out of my profile. Hrm.
fillyjonk »
11 December 2009 · 10:42 am
…and you have more than a few following you. Which is maybe what you should have pointed out to the kibitzer.
CGHill »
11 December 2009 · 11:07 am
112 of 301. Then again, I have rather a lot of organizations following me, most of which aren’t classifiable by gender. (I mean, the Paseo Grill? It’s an eatery.)
Of those I follow who also follow me — there are 162 — 85 are women. (This means that there are 27 women following me whom I am not following for some reason.)
This is, incidentally, much easier to do on FriendOrFollow.com.
Lisa Paul »
12 December 2009 · 5:18 am
Chaz, you should have said you have “rather a lot” of women followers because chicks dig you!
CGHill »
12 December 2009 · 10:09 am
Even if this were true, it conflicts with my not-so-carefully-constructed public persona. :)