The Gap Is Closing – How Many Twitter Friends Do You Know In Real Life?

Image Source: Zero Influence LAST night I was thinking out loud about how many Twitter friends I actually know from a real life interaction. So what did I do? I went through the list of 470 people I follow and calculated that I’ve interacted with 99 of them in real life, just over 21% of them. So to you [...]

Posted by Ben Grubb on Monday, November 10, 2008 at 12:47 am
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9 Responses to “The Gap Is Closing – How Many Twitter Friends Do You Know In Real Life?”

Kuma says:

November 10, 2008 at 12:52 am

absolutely none.
Alegrya says:

November 10, 2008 at 1:03 am

208 out of the 345 I’m following, more in the following me list.
Christine Parfitt says:

November 10, 2008 at 10:40 am

I’ve met 10 out of the 46 people I follow.
colbsi says:

November 10, 2008 at 5:52 pm

Met 54 out of out of 148 people I follow
technology tips - subske says:

November 11, 2008 at 6:23 pm

Haven’t met all that many to be honest.. there are only a few on their that I have worked with… to be honest though i don’t follow that many people, generally industry groups, websites or products that im interested in…
Nick Hac says:

November 11, 2008 at 6:38 pm

I would know 200 of my 700 odd followers… keen to meet them all!
Tim Moreillon says:

November 11, 2008 at 6:44 pm

@tdm911 and to be honest, maybe 5 at most! Twitter seems to be rather irrelevant amongst people I know. Too busy still playing on Facebook……
Wayne says:

November 11, 2008 at 6:57 pm

Just one. I don’t know what that says, if anything?
Krusher says:

November 11, 2008 at 7:27 pm

Hmm, I’d say about 4 of 30.

But I also have quite a few people I consider true online ‘friends’ that i’ve yet to meet.. be it just because I’m too lazy or don’t have the time/money to get to them.