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Poll Results: 69% of users think I’m a party pooper

By redjac ⋅ February 10, 2009 ⋅  Email this post ⋅  Print this post ⋅ Post a comment

Last month, Mr Tweet ran a poll asking visitors whether or not they thought twitter would go mainsteam. The results have now been posted, and apparently, I’m in the minority. Which is cool — I’m a white male, so I’m not used to that. It’s kind of an adventure.

I’m in the minority because I voted that twitter will not go mainsteam. I voted this way mostly because I’m a dick. But also because I think it’s true. And since I will not receive statistical vindication, I’ll have to make due with posting the comment I left explaining why:

Minority (non-racial) populations always think they paint with a bigger brush than they actually do. Living in Manhattan, people all the TIME act like EVERYONE votes Democrat (or has gay friends, or makes alot of money, or doesn’t go to church, etc, etc). Likewise, geeks always think that everyone twitters (or blogs, or has a smartphone, or posts photos immediately to Flickr, etc, etc). But they don’t. And we shouldn’t need the whole world to salute the twitter flag for us to feel comfortable using it.