Thank you to the thirty-one folks who took the time to complete the Twitter Tools Survey. The biggest single takeaway from the survey is, I’m quite the newbie when it comes to survey tools. (The other big takeaway is, there are some incredibly kind people online who do things like complete friends’ surveys and encourage them to keep learning.)
Here are the results of the survey.
What tools do you use to find people on Twitter?
Which of these tools do you use to “automate” Twitter?
Do you use a “group tweet” tool?
Which conference tools do you use?
Which Twitter client do you use?
Which multi-user Twitter client do you use?
Which multimedia posting tools do you use?
Do you use any multi-site posting tools?
What do you use to monitor (get alerts from) Twitter?
Which ranking/authority tools do you use?
Another encouraging aspect of this survey: the number of tweets I received from folks saying, “Hey, cool. Thanks for pointing out some tools I hadn’t heard of before.”
I’ll redo the survey soon. When I do, I’ll include options to get more OPINIONS on tools. I’d really rather know what you think about the tools and what’s working for you than collected bland statistics.
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Trey everytime I think about something I keep seeing you took the step right before me, giggle, I love like minded friends, dude you are so awesome, lets ask more questions – I am ready!
Thanks Michele. I’m looking forward to our creative time together Monday!
Hey Trey
Great list. I justed started using Hoot Suite and connected my facebook feed and caught this article in the feed. Awesome.
Trey this is a great list. It is interesting. to see what the tool break down is. One stat missing is one I would find interesting and that is a break down by type of platform i.e. Linux/Mac OS ,IPhone etc and the tools each user uses on those platforms. This can be a telling statistic as well.
Thanks Rob.
There’s actually quite a bit missing from the survey. For this go around I wanted to focus on tools. Maybe computing platform might make for a good follow up.
For what it’s worth, I can tell you that most people accessing my blog do so with Firefox (40%), Chrome (20%), IE (18%), Safari (16%) and are doing so via cable connection (80%) or DSL (15%).
Those stats are not consistent with the general consumer trend. I understand from my Windows-loving friends that IE “still controls 66% of the browser market.” That means a disproportionate number of visitors are using advanced browsers and Internet connections.
That also means there’s no possible way to extend the survey results to a broader population.
I think the take-away is: we’re still early in the product life cycle of social media and the doors of opportunity are wide open in the absence of universally agreed about standards.
That means we can just keep having fun!
PS. I do intend to do more surveys. Do keep in mind that while I value the quants out there and I know someone has to do the number crunching, to the degree I am a researcher at all, I am a qualitative researcher. Biography, phenomenology, grounded theory, ethnography, and case study are my favorites. (most favorite is ethnography. I think corporations would do much better in hiring ethnograhic researchers before hiring social media directors.)
Thank you for sharing the results with your friends.
Thanks Ann.
The feedback on Twitter fell into the category of “hey, there are some cool new tools on this list.”
I think someone could probably make a career (in the short term) of analyzing Twitter tools and publishing the results.
Laura aka Pistacio has made a career (and money) out of explaining twitter and building businesses around it. Trey – this was helpful for me – the survey and the resultant conversation
This would be interesting across a much bigger sample.
Thanks. Agreed. Pistacio is incredible.
Yep, you’re right. Do keep in mind I’m not a quant jock. I’m more toward the qualitative end of the spectrum; psychology, anthropology, sociology, theology are more my speed. I seek to understand, not predict.
By the way, the three remaining classes between me and a doctorate in education (EdD) are all statistics! Yueck.
For a while, I made the case for a qualitative research project as my dissertation. Several professors told me I was crazy. “Do you know how many PAGES a qualitative project would be?” they asked.
When I checked into how many pages a qualitative dissertation would be, I quickly settled on doing a quantitative one instead. I’ll be focusing on the effect of various quizzing methods on math scores of college freshman taking basic college math. It won’t be my magnus opus by any stretch, but it will be a dissertation.
Now let’s hope I don’t forget all of my statistical training so far before I get that project done!