Twitter Survey Usage Survey of Geo Technology Professionals - the results
Written by Glenn Letham (@gletham)
05 August 2009
I recently designed a short Twitter Survey Usage Survey of Geo Technology Professionals.
The following is a summary of close to 100 responses - thanks to all who took part (note, you are welcome to still take part in the survey to build a larger sampling please). Some of the interesting results I thought were that a majority of people who took the survey are using twitter for business although for many, their company does not support their twitter usage and many companies are doing little to promote their corporate Twitter or establish corporate policies regarding usage. Many individuals who use Twitter are also on LinkedIn yet a majority of companies have created their own facebook presence. Enjoy the findings and feel free to provide any comments or suggestions for a follow-up survey.
Are you a Twitter user?
Yes 86%
No 14%
Do You Use Twitter For Business
Yes 65%
No 35%
Does Your Company Support your Twitter Use?
Yes 52%
No 18%
Unsure 37%
What is Your Twitter Uage Mainly?
Mostly Business 38%
Personal Mostly 23%
About 50/50 36%
Other 5%
Does Your Company Have an Official Twitter
YES 36%
NO 60%
unsure 4%
Does Your Company Promote Their Twitter
YES very much 8%
YES A Little 30%
No 59%
Unsure 3%
Has Your Company’s Twitter Usage Been Beneficial to the company?
YES definitely 13%
YES a Little 16%
No 16%
Unsure 25%
Not Applicable 32%
Does Your Company Have a Social Media Usage Policy
Yes 14%
No 63%
Working On it 16%
Thinking On it 10
Does your company have a facebook page
YES 38%
NO 62%
Are You on LinkedIn
YES 86%
NO 14%
Which describes your feelings about Twitter?
Twitter is going to be huge for businessese 60%
Twitter is wasting people’s time while at work 5%
Twitter is fun but ‘m not sure I see the business usage 15%
I don’t really get the whole Twitter thing 6%
Twitter is a waste of time! 6%
What’s Twitter? 4%
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