世論 What Japan Thinks

goo Ranking took a look at the features of Twitter users that make people want to stop following.

Demographics

The survey was conducted between the 4th and 8th of October 2013 where 1,074 people completed a private web-based questionnaire. However, goo Ranking have recently revamped their ranking page and have dropped the link to their demographics. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.

I generally ignore Twitter, so none of the below bother me! I couldn’t find a nice photo of Twitter, but here are a couple of sweet tweeters instead:

Ranking result

Q: What are the features of Twitter users that make you want to stop following? (Sample size=1,074)

Rank		Score
1	Only makes aggressive, offensive tweets	100
2	Tweets weird unintelligible words	92.7
3	Makes beyond laughable negative tweets	92.3
4	Makes a show of tweets suggesting they have girlfriend/boyfriend	80.5
5	Tweets photos that might infringe on others’ privacy rights	68.2
6	Profile photo is a selfie taken looking down from above	66.4
7	Every day tweets a photo with their partner	65.9
8	Frequently retweets crude stuff that I’d rather not see	65.0
9	Tweets using an anime character’s name	64.5
10	Drones on every day about how busy they are	60.9
11	Only tweets “If you retweet this, then I’ll do that“	59.5
12=	Goes somewhere every weekend and tweets photos to show off how they have a full real life	57.7
12=	Frequently tweets with “Pass this on!” added	57.7
14	Nonchalantly inserts self-deprecating boasts into tweets	56.8
15	Only ever tweets about his own company’s products, services	54.5
16	Lots of long multi-tweet messages	48.6
17	Lots of automatic tweets	47.7
18	Lots of repeated tweets	46.4
19	Always tweets results of online tests	46.4
20	Always gives away the plot for TV, movies, etc	43.6
21=	Tweets “Blocked, unfollowed by XXX” whenever they get blocked, unfollowed	43.2
21=	Profile is written in English which I cannot understand	43.2
23	Always tweets about celebrities I have no interest in	42.3
24	Tweets about every little thing that happens	39.1
25	Frequently replies to tweets from celebrities they like	34.5
26	Repeated makes uninteresting clique-ish posts	34.1
27	Proudly tweets about catching a glimpse of celebrity X at location Y	33.2
28	Publically discusses private retweets	28.2
29	Leaves things up for conjecture by replying without adding an “@name”	18.2
30	Uses lots of hash tags	15.9