No shock, Men follow Men on twitter....why this means we need a good few men to create a tipping point for equality in the workplace

Although men and women follow a similar number of Twitter users, men have 15% more followers than women. Men also have more reciprocated relationships, in which two users follow each other. This "follower split" suggests that women are driven less by followers than men, or have more stringent thresholds for reciprocating relationships. This is intriguing, especially given that females hold a slight majority on Twitter: we found that men comprise 45% of Twitter users, while women represent 55%. To get this figure, we cross-referenced users' "real names" against a database of 40,000 strongly gendered names.

Even more interesting is who follows whom. We found that an average man is almost twice more likely to follow another man than a woman. Similarly, an average woman is 25% more likely to follow a man than a woman. Finally, an average man is 40% more likely to be followed by another man than by a woman. These results cannot be explained by different tweeting activity - both men and women tweet at the same rate.

I love the Harvard Business Review, it always comes up with exactly the type of things I have been thinking about (note to self: must stop overthinking, read more Cosmo and less of The Economist for sake of own mental health and worry capacity)

here is the original article http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/cs/2009/06/new_twitter_research_me...

the point is, i dont think we can change the fact that men follow men (hence we must teach young men what being a man really means, respecting themselves, their strength , the women in society and having a clear morality - no not that false morality that so called religious types go around yapping about, but real human morality)

if influential men start following women on twitter on or in life then all those hordes of men who need to identify with someone just might too.

what do you think?