I have found myself using Twitter more and more recently to share info and comment - There are 2 reasons for this firstly speed and secondly efficiency - speed because I don't have to consider a detailed and well constructed point of view and efficiency because the Twitter account is linked to the Gravity site and my LinkedIn account so at least I know that I am not just Twittering to my 100 or so followers. For me this provides an interesting commentary on blogging - my increase in use of Twitter directly correlates with my decrease in blogging (as you can see from the slow down in blog entries!) BUT it also means that the blogs I consider are more thought pieces and commentaries on longer term issues which not only provides an interesting differentation in usage but also encourages consideration and reflection which I think can only be a good thing in the 24/7 "always on" life.

Anyway this thought has been brought on by a fascinating review of info and stats for Twitter on www.website-monitoring.com. There are a number of key points that jump out, these include: 55% female skew and primarily 18-34 age distribution at about 45% of all tweeps! Portuguese is the 2nd most popular language for tweeting in and 41% of people haven’t tweeted since signing up and 75% of tweets come from 3rd party applications or mobiles. 10pm – 11pm is the most popular time to tweet and there are 640 tweets per second. Sadly 24% of Twitterers have no followers - All this with only 175 employees !

So now I have managed to link Twitter and Blogging - what next Facebook and LinkedIn ? Now back to some more Twittering !