I love your input – some of the questions you bring up are also questions I want to answer in round two, including the question of demographics: age, location, gender, etc and how they combine with the offline personality to affect our online interactions.

I actually think this is going to be a useful study once I get the more formal version off the ground, and I want as much input from people in the comments as possible as I develop it.

As for management versus personality, I originally got on Twitter via the web (early adopter) then went to Twhirl and then TweetDeck. I tried TweetDeck groups for a while, but then deleted them and now have gone back to just reading the whole stream. I kept one group of Boston people so I can keep abreast of events locally, but other than that I find I much prefer the noisy organic experience, just like in real life. Twitter is much more interesting that way for me. I do admit I occasionally use TweetDeck’s filter feature to silence the TCOT types – that much vitriol can wear me down. I don’t follow everyone who follows me – I don’t follow back bots, or obvious spammers, and will occasionally bookmark someone’s profile and go back to it in a month to see if they have changed how they use twitter (eg from link bombing to talking, which would then get a follow from me), etc.

I love MTBI stuff, have taught a number of classes in managerial communications using it.

I used it once to analyze different profiles of users requesting technical support so I could better assist them – this was 15 years ago!

What I love about MTBI is the dialogue you can have with other people once you are introduced to the framework and know your type. It can really shed some light if you’re managing people or if your boss annoys you.

I wonder though — MTBI was meant to evaluate face-to-face real time live interaction .. not virtual interaction. I don’t think it was originally intended to evaluate online behavior.

I am wondering if some of the e-learning styles/profiles are better suited?

Also remember that the definition of introvert versus extravert is solely a “social” measure. It also has to do with how people process information. Introverts process by thinking it through internally – and extraverts process by externalizing their thoughts and ideas with other people.

Also, I think you have to look at degree of Introvert versus Extravert. My “Introvert” score was exactly in the middle. I wonder if you would see more definable patterns between strongly introverted and strongly extraverted

For me, I can take a lot more “people” or interactions with computer mediated communications e.g. online than I can do in a real-life situation because being at the computer – even if you are “socializing” is still a soliditary face-to-face activity….

Leslie, you say that you follow anyone who follows you – but are you using a tool like Tweetdeck to follow a smaller subset of people more closely?

I stopped automatically following everyone who follows me because I found that I couldn’t get to know people and keep track in memory who they were. I started using Twitter back in October 2006 when there were not tools like Tweetdeck .. so my following patterns — were at first – do I know them?

Then as I started to follow over 3,000 people, I found that I wasn’t getting to know them very well. So, I started rotating following people – and try to keep around the 3K.

This has more to do with the way my brain works – or the way it was hard wired. As a boomer in her 50’s, I grew up as a linear learner – but my exposure to online/internet as transformed me into more of a global learning style.

But every now and then, my cranial capacity fails me. Which also makes me wonder if there is a pattern between age and twitter following habits.

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It’s not like every person Beth follows or is followed by is a friend. Some may be, which would go along with her MTBI. But to suggest that she has more followers than followees due to her MTBI sounds hokey.

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