Have You Joined TweetProgress?

by Jen Nedeau · 2009-09-03 14:40:00 UTC
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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!

Jen Nedeau Jen Nedeau is a media relations professional and a writer based in New York City.
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