Marketing Pilgrim

Think about all the retweets you sent over the last week. Would you guess that you forwarded more tweets from men or from women? As a woman, you’d think more of my retweets would be from my fellow females but take a look at this:

According to Twee-Q, I’m a very anti-equal opportunity retweeter! I kind of figured this would be true on a rough guess, but seeing it here in red, yellow and orange gave me pause to think. Why am I passing on the wisdom of men more than women? Are they providing better information via Twitter? Are they more clever? Is it simply that I follow less women and if so. . . why is that?

Vine made a big splash back in January with the introduction of the six-second video loop. In just a few months, the app has wormed its way into the hearts of Twitter followers everywhere and now users share an average of 5 Vine tweets per second!

What’s neat about Vine is that the one-touch record mechanism allows you to easily edit together a succession of single frames flipbook style. That means you can make inanimate objects dance and play with very little effort. (Here’s my Pirates at Play video)

Of course, you can also use Vine to post six seconds of anyone doing anything. The most retweeted Vine video to date shows Harry Styles and the One Direction crew (that’s a boy band) getting their hair done prior to going on stage.  This riveting clip was shared more than 47,000 times.