Why Japanese follow you on Twitter

By Ken Y-N ( July 17, 2011 at 11:16) ? Filed under Internet, Polls, Rankings

As a follow-up to last week?s look at why Japanese stop following people, this time it is the opposite question from goo Ranking, what characteristics of people makes one want to follow them on Twitter.

Demographics

Over the 6th and 7th of June 2011 1,148 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 50.6% of the sample were male, 12.1% in their teens, 16.9% in their twenties, 28.0% in their thirties, 25.4% in their forties, 9.7% in their fifties, and 7.9% aged sixty or older. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.

As my Twitter followed count is very low (I rarely read it myself!) I think just about everyone falls under the same hobbies classification, namely running a Japan blog.

By the way, I?ve been playing around with Google?s new social network Google+ (drop me a line if you want an invite!), and I suspect it might have more of an effect on Twitter than Facebook; I?ve never worked out how in Twitter to follow a conversation; everything seems just one way to me.

Ranking result

Q: What characteristics make you want to start following someone on Twitter? (Sample size=1,148)

Rank	?	Score
1	Same hobbies as me	100
2	Cheers me up	94.9
3	Uses rich expressions	94.1
4	Has latest detailed information in fields I?m interested in	90.9
5	Elegant use of words	82.7
6	Has a similar way of thinking to me	71.7
7	Is a famous person I like	68.9
8	Healing	64.6
9	Usually modest	62.6
10	Has a clever way with words	60.2
11	Never tweets anything negative	57.5
12	Freely displays his wisdom	52.8
13	Has entertaining individualistic tone	49.2
14	Clearly indicates their information source for tweets	35.4
15	Clearly expresses their own opinion even when dealing with famous people	31.5
16	From the same industry, school, hometown as me	31.1
17	Replies to people without displaying favouritism	26.0
18	Makes lots of tweets that should be preserved for posterity	24.0
19	I like their icon photo	19.7
20	Has lots of famous people followers	14.6
21	Retweets a lot	10.6
22	Has a similar family situation to mine	9.4
23	Frequently arguing with people	7.5

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