Interaction patterns among Swedish Twitter users

Abstract

I have in my study chosen to study about Swedish Twitter usage in the following areas usage, follow, followers, privacy, technique, writing and professional scenarios. In my pre-study a qualitative study was conducted by interviewing six persons from Sweden that actively uses Twitter about their insight into usage, follow, followers, privacy, technique, writing, professional. A quantitative study was performed by asking users 20 questions about their Twitter usage and habits. Initially I had hoped after a discussion with my supervisor Mathias Klang to receive 30 responses but received 78 responses to my survey. In these interviews it was revealed that there are no correlations in what a Swedish Twitter user Tweet. However research revealed that there are a correlation about what a user does not Tweet, personal updates since they do not feel the need to share these with others. Furthermore user does not want to use localization services on Twitter since they do not want to broadcast where they are. What is important for a user to decide if they want to follow another user is what is written in their biography since it shows info about the user. If a user Tweets too often so that it fills another users timeline, it is common that a user unfollows them since they do not see the other people that they follow in their timeline. After further research it was revealed that the two favorite Twitter clients among my interviewees and respondents to my survey is the official web client Twitter.com and TweetDeck