Have You Joined TweetProgress?

Published September 03, 2009 @ 02:40PM PT

Have you joined TweetProgress, the directory of Progressives on Twitter? If not, I suggest it as a means to find like minded folks on Twitter and also contest the idea that conservatives know it all when it comes to the 140-character communication tool.

TweetProgress has about 3500 members as of today and from sampling on the Random Member it seems like roughly 40% of the people there* are women. According to Jon Pincus, one of the #p2 hashtag organizers, this is consistent with earlier #p2 statistics of 40-45%, women, and yet significantly lower than the numbers for Twitter as a whole where the overall population has been reported as high as 55% women.

Pincus reports that the Top 30 on the most followers page is similarly 40% women, which is very different from the norm on Twitter, where "most followers" lists are almost always 75%+ male; and he also contrasts this with the "progressive blogosphere", where lists of most-influential blogs and bloggers are typically overwhelmingly male.

Pincus says that a likely contributor for this added diversity is the help from the feminist and womanist progressives' on Twitter (yay!). Many of the key players in #fem2, #women2follow, #diversityfail, and Social Media Women of Color are progressives and therefore, #p2's explicit diversity focus may also have had an impact on TweetProgress.

In the end, this is yet another confirmation of the theory that Twitter is an opportunity to engage with communities marginalized by the progressive blogosphere - so make sure to join today and keep the diversity growing!

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I would like to connect with feminists and progressives to see what I can learn from them.

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Posted by Joy Waltz on 09/03/2009 @ 03:53PM PT
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Thanks for the link, Jen! And yay indeed for all the work that you and so many others have done organizing on Twitter and elsewhere. While it's frustrating that we can't yet measure the impact more precisely, the benefits are already showing -- for example, successes using act.ly to engage with conference organizers on gender inequity.

PS: A couple of interesting compare-and-contrast statistics:

- only roughly 20% of the top 3 #tcot (Top Conservatives on Twitter), “30 followers” list are women.

- on WeFollow’s politics list, there's only 1 woman the top 30!

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Jen Nedeau is a social media consultant, progressive activist, feminist speaker and writer. She currently lives in New York City, where she works full-time as the Director of Digital Strategy at Air America Media. In August 2008, Nedeau was selected to be the Editor of the WomensRights.Change.Org where she facilitates daily discussion about the feminist movement. Additionally, Nedeau volunteers as the Chief Technology Officer for New Leaders Council, a non-profit that offers exclusive training for young leaders. You can follow her on Twitter @HumanFolly or learn more here: www.jennedeau.com.