I concluded my Twitter observations last night and compiled all of my notes into one file. I am too tempted to quantitatively review my data … so I am going to get it out of my system here …
I have over 1,093 individual tweets to review which I dumped into Excel to helps me ID posts with @ which I am using as a guide to when the tweets are directed at a person vs broadcast messages. Also, by sorting out those with # tags or http:// I can see ID topics. Over the 10 1/2 hour observations, the tweets came from 499 unique users. This is about 15% of the users with reciprocal following relationships with edtechtalk … seems kind of high given it is only over a 5 hour time period, right? Also, one user tweeted 16 times (while the mean was 2 … sorry, I couldn’t help myself).
Interestingly, I didn’t see tweets from some of closest online buds which makes me wonder about the impact of the snapshots in time on my perceptions / observations. In other words, is my view / perspective from my 5 observations different than it would be if I had made the observations at a different time?
