Twitter Friends vs. Productivity
To commemorate my milestone of 1,000 “followers” on Twitter, I thought I would show everyone a graph that illustrates how Twitter is currently affecting my productivity.
As you can see, I experienced a rapid growth in friends this week. The number of friends I gained on Twitter has been inversely proportional to the amount of work I’ve gotten done.
I should have included a green line for “Time Spent Drawing Productivity Graph”!
Update: I just realized that my friend count didn’t go down, but I don’t feel like going back and redrawing that line. It looks better with the stock market feel anyway.
June 20th, 2007 at 11:18 am
Haha! So true!
June 20th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
yeahh. I saw my productivity go down drastically after registering in twitter.
June 20th, 2007 at 3:13 pm
Do you count followers as friends? Cos you added me as a friend, but I did not reciprocate. You are indicated as “follower” of mine, and not a friend. How does followers v. friends affect the crappy graph?
June 20th, 2007 at 5:29 pm
That’s true. In fact, there is no need to tell the world what you’re doing.
June 20th, 2007 at 8:59 pm
This is exactly what Twitter does… lol But then I’m stuck
June 21st, 2007 at 8:12 pm
Hey Brian.
The high “friends” score definitely has neg. impact on both coolness and productivity! I twittered this after adding you as a friend… making me one degree less cool, of course….
Among other work, our museum web dept is working on 2.0 prof community tools that go way beyond linkedin, myspace, etc. We’re exploring ways to use social networking tools for distributed nformal science education professional work collaborations and we’re always looking for new POVs to add to the mix. We specialize in bringing together brilliant people to talk about interesting things.
I get to your neighborhood regularly. Am I geeky enough yet to actually filter through the 24,000 friends on your radar? Curious to know where the real boundries are.
Kate
June 22nd, 2007 at 2:10 pm
How do you decide who you add as a friend on twitter? I felt special when I randomly got a new friend. Then realized I was one of about 3000. Nice site by the way, I digg the graphs. Check out the stand up comedian Demetri Martin’s comedy special called PERSON. He draws some awesome graphs as well.
June 22nd, 2007 at 6:28 pm
awfull truth of life:)