世論 What Japan Thinks

Despite having lots of followers, I still don’t know the answer to the question goo Ranking posed, namely what’s so great about Twitter?

Demographics

Between the 18th and 21st of December 2009 1,077 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 51.0% of the sample were female, 8.7% in their teens, 15.3% in their twenties, 27.0% in their thirties, 27.8% in their forties, 11.9% in their fifties, and 9.3% 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.

Whenever I see programs or read about Twitter users, especially Japanese users, I am overcome with a great feeling of sadness. Mobile users, especially, seem to have devolved from rich email to basically text SMS.

Ranking result

Q: What’s so great about Twitter? (Sample size=1,077)

Rank		Score
1	Even though it’s a public blog, you can see the true face that celebrities usually don’t show	100
2	There’s lots of information exclusive to Twitter	97.3
3	There’s a surpisingly large number of people close to me twittering	87.7
4	You can write whatever you feel like	86.3
5	Replies have come from celebrities	80.8
6	Unknown people reply to your tweets about worries	75.3
7	Can get tweets from followers with different ways of thinking	64.4
8	My random tweet can get lots of people wrapped up in a discussion	60.3
9	Following and being followed is fun, greatly changes the way of using it	54.8
10	Information comes faster than from news sites, etc	52.1