Another dispatch from the “Picture is worth a thousand words” department — Techcrunch is reporting that Twitter users with a profile picture have, on average, 10 times more followers than those who don’t. Those with pictures average slightly more than 250 follower, while those who use a stock image have less than 30. This finding is noteworthy because Twitter is best known as the place to go for incredibly terse text messages (144 characters) at unbelievably high volumes.
For what it’s worth, I do have a Twitter profile picture and I have 226 followers, but I’ve only been making any kind of Twitter effort for a few weeks now. I should probably practice what I preach and replace my lovely “W” logo with my smiling face.
P.S. How on earth do we find the time to keep up with all this? Honest answer: I don’t know. Just doing my best.
P.P.S. How many of you are using Twitter? Are you accomplishing anything with it?
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This is an interesting observation, but probably more a consequence of people with pictures being more engaged with the medium and posting more interesting content.
Perhaps Techcrunch could add number of tweets, and length of time on twitter into the mix to see if the picture actually does make a difference.
I don’t use Twitter. I have a Facebook identity, but I find Facebook confusing and I don’t use it very much.
I find Facebook much more useful than Twitter. The ability to create events and invite people is extremely useful and I like interacting with our “fans”. I do have a Twitter account, but the feed moves so quickly it becomes difficult to have meaningful interactions.
I use twitter a lot and find it extremely useful. However, I use it primarily for pulling info in rather than in pushing it out. I follow several water / conservation /education industry orgs who give tweets about the various resources and grant opportunities they have to offer to others in the water industry or who are involved in education outreach. It is such a great tool for being notified about such resources and grant opportunities in one place. Now I don’t have to spend so much time doing searches and combing several websites – I get all their info in one convenient location, complete with relevant links.
I may or may not use it to push info out. We have a facebook page for our agency where I send out info on upcoming events, news updates, and post photos from our poster contest, education and community events, and that works quite well. Everyone is on FB and it’s a good way to reach them. Eventually I will incorporate twitter into that feed as well, however I don’t believe it will have the followership (is that even a word?) that I will get with FB.