Dogs and All The Rest: Twitter Trends
Cross examining Twitter with its 50 million daily tweets, and seeing such pattern on other social networks and blogs it is obvious that people largely refer to “friends” more than they do to any of the closest relatives they have. We take this for granted in the age of the Social Web. Thus, spotting this on Twitter is not much of a surprise. But, wait for this:
While doing a 2.0 research for one of our clients on pets on the Social Media, we have discovered that people tweet on their dogs more than they do on any other relative they have, but their mom.
We have compared dogs mentions (”dog”) to important female figures and learned that dogs are more tweeted on than “wife”, “daughter” and “girlfriend” (in this order).
Comparing tweets on dogs to our beloved male figures, we find this order: dog, dad, husband, father, boyfriend.
Dogs overcome “cat”, “kid”, “child” and they equal to “son” (which is is skewed by the Spanish word)- they are all less frequently addressed in our tweets.
On our market research we have found clear indications for the importance of dogs in all aspects of our lives. This was highly reflected in the social web as well. Dogs are not only most common among pets in most (if not all) countries, (western as well as Asian) but are perceived today as an integral part of a family structure from all kinds (couples with kids; couples without kids as well as singles) for many of them dogs complement the family or can even substitute a child. For information about the research scope, and major findings – you are welcome to contact me.
I can’t help thinking about the popular book “My Family and Other Animals“ by Gerald Durrell.
Some more insights:
- wife > husband (yep, we make them talk!)
- boyfriend > girlfriend (boys, they make us talk!)
- mom, mother > dad, father (we deserve that!)
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February 28th, 2010 at 3:19 am
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February 28th, 2010 at 5:00 am
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RT: @better_tweets: Wird mehr über Ehepartner, Kinder oder Hunde getwittert? Hier ist die – überraschende – Antwort. [link to post]
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February 28th, 2010 at 5:41 am
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Ratet mal: Wird mehr über Ehepartner, Kinder oder Hunde getwittert? Hier ist die – überraschende – Antwort. [link to post]
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February 28th, 2010 at 6:05 am
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February 28th, 2010 at 8:28 am
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ruff RT @cogdog: I knew it! Data proves people tweet more about their dog than any other relative(except Mom) [link to post] #DogsRule
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February 28th, 2010 at 8:40 am
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RT @cogdog: I knew it! Data proves people tweet more about their dog than any other relative (except Mom) [link to post] #DogsRule
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February 28th, 2010 at 8:41 am
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I knew it! Data proves people tweet more about their dog than any other relative (except Mom) [link to post] #DogsRule
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February 28th, 2010 at 9:41 am
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@simfin RT @cogdog: Data proves people tweet more about their dog than any other relative (except Mom) [link to post] #DogsRule
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February 28th, 2010 at 1:25 pm
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February 28th, 2010 at 7:12 pm
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More evidence that dogs really are a person’s best friend — RT @lgstream: Dogs and All The Rest: Twitter Trends [link to post]
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February 28th, 2010 at 7:41 pm
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March 1st, 2010 at 2:35 am
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March 1st, 2010 at 6:52 am
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March 4th, 2010 at 11:31 am
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March 4th, 2010 at 11:42 am
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March 8th, 2010 at 8:33 pm
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March 11th, 2010 at 11:42 am
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Dogs top your tweet list, except for Mom – [link to post]
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March 16th, 2010 at 10:15 am
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People tweet on their dogs more than they do on any other relative they have, except their mom. Via @TrendsSpotting: [link to post]
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March 18th, 2010 at 10:11 am
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People tweet about their dogs more than they do on any other relative they have, but their mom. See the stats – [link to post]
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March 18th, 2010 at 10:12 am
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People tweet about their dogs more than they do on any other relative they have, but their mom. WOOF. [link to post]
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March 19th, 2010 at 5:04 am
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RT @jennylau: Ppl tweet more on dogs than on relatives (except mum) [link to post].
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March 19th, 2010 at 5:46 am
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Ppl tweet more on dogs than on relatives (except mum) [link to post].
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May 3rd, 2010 at 9:58 pm
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Our loyal furry companions are getting more mentions than spouses on twtr: [link to post]
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