{"id":879,"date":"2009-06-23T08:39:25","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T14:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/crawler\/?p=879"},"modified":"2009-06-23T08:39:25","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T14:39:25","slug":"the-sociology-of-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2009\/06\/23\/the-sociology-of-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"the sociology of twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although published earlier this month, the Crawler recently picked up a story about sociologist Liz Cullen&#8217;s study of Twitter and how one might define the &#8216;sociology of Twitter.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/archives\/the_sociology_of_twitter_with_liz_pullen.php\">ReadWriteWeb<\/a>, which posted the story and the video below, reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sociologist and ethnographer, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/nwjerseyliz\">Liz Pullen<\/a>, spent a month tracking the top 500 Twitter users (as ranked by number of followers) as well as the much-contested <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/archives\/twitters_suggested_user_list_followers.php\">suggested users<\/a> list. In tracking these accounts, she also closely analyzed the behaviors of new adopters and their expectations of the service. Perhaps her conclusions will help us all understand &#8211; and hopefully improve &#8211; the dismal attrition rates for the service.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/archives\/the_sociology_of_twitter_with_liz_pullen.php\">View the video&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"300\" data=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=5053103&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=1&amp;color=b80103&amp;fullscreen=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=5053103&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=1&amp;color=b80103&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/5053103?width=1080\" data-rel=\"lightbox-video-0\">The Sociology of Twitter, Video Interview with Liz Pullen<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/readwriteweb\">ReadWriteWeb<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read more from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/archives\/the_sociology_of_twitter_with_liz_pullen.php\">ReadWriteWeb<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although published earlier this month, the Crawler recently picked up a story about sociologist Liz Cullen&#8217;s study of Twitter and how one might define the &#8216;sociology of Twitter.&#8217; ReadWriteWeb, which posted the story and the video below, reports: Sociologist and ethnographer, Liz Pullen, spent a month tracking the top 500 Twitter users (as ranked by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39074],"tags":[39112,129,116],"class_list":["post-879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sightings","tag-culture","tag-media","tag-networks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=879"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":881,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions\/881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}