Sometimes you have to go behind the buzz and dive into the pool of actual data to  understand patterns and this – believe me – sometimes turns out to be too amazing! This would have been the response of Bill and Mikolaj of Harvard Business School  who did an amazing analysis on a sample data extracted from twitter of about 300,000 users.

The patterns it revealed were amazing but they reinforced the same thing: Twitter is there to stay (even if it aint earning a penny so far!)

So instead of rewriting all the results here, I would just skip to the conclusions, and I bet they really are amazing! And you cant challenge them since real user data backs it…

1) Gender Division: 45% Male 55% Female.

2) 80% users have ATLEAST 1 follower or following 1 compared to 60-65% on Social Networks.

3) Men have 15% more followers than women.

4) Average man is almost twice more likely to follow another man than a woman.

5) An average woman is 25% more likely to follow a man than a woman.

6) Men and women tweet at the same rate.

7) 50% of Twitter users tweet less than once every 74 days.

10% of Twitter users account for 90% of the tweets (This sounds so much like World Wealth Distribution!)

So, it proves that : Thy shall not follow a woman, for thee will surely follow thee!