LinkedIn members love their tweeting

By Alina Popescu on September 11th, 2009 in PR & Marketing, Social Media & Communities

The majority of LinkedIn members tweet, a lot of them quite frequently. That is what the results of a recent poll created by Debbie Weil have shown. Apart from 13 percent of users who see Twitter as a waste of time, the rest of them have Twitter accounts and 68% of all the 247 users that took the poll put it to good use.

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Because LinkedIn polls do mix the replies with some other data on the members, you can see who tweets and how often by job title, company size, job function, gender and age.

Here are a few results I found interesting

  • Company owners tweet more than others (VPs, managers and other types of personnel)
  • Small companies and enterprises are big Twitter fans
  • No Marketing or PR professionals see Twitter as a waste of time
  • The male/female results are perfectly balanced!
  • And speaking of young people not tweeting, everyone in the 18-24 age group is a proficient user.

If you’d like to view detailed results, click here. And if you’re on LinkedIn and would like to take the poll, please go here.

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  • Fyurien
    September 15th, 2009

    I’m torn on both Twitter and LinkedIn. I get the concepts, I’ve tried the services, but I’m still confused on the practicality of both sites.

    With Twitter I get the point. You simply share your life, thoughts or ideas with the world and with anyone interested in listening. But maybe I’m too much of a consumer to have the motivation to Tweet. So I prefer to follow then to be followed. Still I’ve always seen Twitter like I do a television. Its too one directional. Yes you can reply to someones Tweet, send them a personal message and so on. So I might be missing something! =)

    LinkedIn on the other hand is clearly supposed to be practical, where Tweeter can at least get by with being entertaining. Sort of like MySpace and Facebook… Tweeter can simply be fun and nothing else. However LinkedIn is quite another story. It truly is meant to help professionals connect. But I suppose more importantly, help people find good companies to work for. I might be missing something here also, but it just doesn’t seem to be of much use. What’s there to do on LinkedIn other then post your profile and possibly contact other people?

    A great site, which I think is a pretty good combination of both LinkedIn and Twitter is is GetSatisfaction. Forgetting the silly name, this is a pretty practical site.

    Still, its interesting to see how many people Tweet and who exactly is doing all the Tweeting. I think from a PR stand point, Twitter is great. So it would make sense that company owners and PR folks tweet the most. Otherwise I think its good entertainment.

    Unless I’m missing something! =)

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