Whoooooooooooooooops!

Posted by Melissa McEwan at Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Via Maya, I used Twee-Q to find out how my Twitter retweets break down by gender. The results were pretty much what I expected: 64% women / 36% men.

But check out the message I was delivered at the top of my results page:

screen cap of results page with message reading: 'Don't give up! We detect a certain lack of balance - but maybe all that's missing are tips on more interesting males to follow?'

"Don't give up! We detect a certain lack of balance - but maybe all that's missing are tips on more interesting males to follow?" Ha ha MAYBE.

Then again, maybe the fact that I disproportionately retweet other women is not for a lack of interesting men to follow, but instead that my "lack of balance" is a deliberate attempt to counter the institutional imbalance outside my Twitter account.
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