Bio Experiment

In order to change my ranking on the Dutch Twittergids I changed the bio of @twesis and @artgrrl back in February and got great rankings, althoug they are not up to date anymore. In my bio of @artgrrl I wrote that I did not have any tweets since April 3rd, but this month I started tweeting again and by now I am back at full speed. Today I got some inspiration through a new follower who wrote in his bio he is single, why would a user write this in his or her bio? Does it say something about the user or are they looking for a partner on Twitter? As I am single too and I like Twitter experiments I changed my bio of @artgrrl to;

artist, blogger, 1974, coffee addict, single, doing a masters in new media, writing my thesis on Twitter Implications (twesis)

Also this morning I found another site that lists tweeple and is called Tweepguide, this site also has pages full of ranking but as this is an international site I don’t nearly have enough followers to get on any list. Tomorrow I should check the Twittergids Single Top 100 to see what my ranking is (based on my present followers @twesis should get the 3rd place and @artgrrl 13th). But what is the experiment? Over the next few days I should watch if other single people start following me or if I get any messages, or ask people about their bio.

Twitter Used to be my Boyfriend

In September 2008 I started to use Twitter and tried to figure out what I could do with it, my first sixteen tweets were about my New Media Theories class and all students used the hashtag #MofM, therefore seven out of these sixteen tweets had this hashtag in them. Also in these first tweets I talked to a friend through @replies about her iphone which continued to be a hot topic ever since. Too bad though that I cannot retrieve my old userpic and background of September 2008 (I tried to use the Wayback machine already). Now about six months later I quit using Twitter. My average lies between three and twenty tweets a day, according to Tweetrush my average used to be seven, but a bit over eight according to tweetstats.

In January I tweeted the most, basically I used twitter to get through the winter, as some kind of hibernation. Maybe it’s locical to tweet more when it’s colder. After getting to know the habits of some user groups on Twitter and discovering that I tweeted things I don’t remember afterwards I became more careful what to tweet and finally quit. A lot of users check the place out and leave, or they get addicted and never leave. I checked the place out and got addicted and quit cold turkey, well, I stopped on March 25 (when I still had nine tweets of which one was in Arabic), I had two other tweets on March 30 and on April 3rd. These last two tweets were not visible in my timeline for some time and then two weeks later showed up.