I’ve been running a little social media experiment the past month called Twitter Trivia. I told myself that if I didn’t have 100 followers by the end of the month, I’d end it. As of this morning, it’s 86, thus the demise of Twitter Trivia.
So what did I learn from this small, social media experiment?
- Most of the followers are new to Twitter. There are some followers that have >500 followers, but the vast majority are <100. Why? I think because it’s a way for them to interact with someone else, without sticking their neck out too far. Everyone loves trivia, and if you know the answer, all the better. It’s a good way to engage with Twitter, and get your sea legs.
- The followers break down into select groups. Not unlike the “Never Ending Friending” (PDF) report, which in part, stated that social networks break down into 5 select groups, so did Twitter Trivia. There were a select few who were always answering (right or wrong), a group of those that would occasionally, and some that never did.
- Twitter Trivia spawned others. There are two other Twitter Trivia-like games that evolved during the month of the experiment. One in particular is probably a little better, in that you can’t just copy/paste the question into Google and find the answer. It’s tough coming up with these types of questions, trust me.
- It truly was social. In the end, I think this was the most interesting takeaway for me. I found that, when I’d send out the three winners for each question, some followers would click the links of the winners, and start following them. There was even some gentle taunting/ribbing that evolved.
In the end, the game brought people together that otherwise would have never met, so in my opinion, it was a great success.
Thanks to all those who played, and for those interested, here’s the Final Leaderboard.
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well, while it was all friendly and no harm was done, I wouldn’t say that the taunting was friendly!
teee heee eheeeeee
Thanks again, Dan. GREAT fun. Wish I could have played more.
As promised, Dan, here are my comments.
While I’m glad I won something…hey, $10 is $10!
…I didn’t really care whether I came out on top or not. I had a lot of fun with Twitter Trivia anyway. Just looking forward to a new question and fighting to be first was enough.
I agree with the points you made above. And I am glad to have met some fun and interesting people, like @loriluza and @spazcer.
I also gained some knowledge from the questions asked. (And, like others, Googled what I didn’t know.)
I sometimes bitched about not being able to answer the first question, but it didn’t really matter. I got third place with answering mostly the third question of the day. (And many days, there were only two questions.) If I really wanted to win, I guess I could’ve waken up thirty minutes earlier each day. lol
BTW, I knew the answer to that second to last question. (Great Britain vs. UK) I don’t remember where I learned it but I’ve known it for a while.
Anyway, thanks for this great experiment!
P.S. The link above doesn’t link to a PDF.
just though i would make my mark on your blog.
i loved what you did with funtrivia, it made my days in the office a little less bothersome. You actually got my whole office involved at times, when i didn’t know an answer id yell out the question and it would get everyone arguing.
funtrivia will be missed and i definitely appreciate all of the followers i got out of it. maybe some day you’ll get that urge to post a random trivia question
ill keep funtrivia on my cell phone notifications just in case