Comments on: Religious Diversity on Twitter

By: Etche_homo

Etche_homo — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:45:41 +0000

Not to me – but thanks to you, I didn’t even waste a couple more minutes on it. I find it inherently offensive that you can’t not post your results on your profile – at least on Facebook the stupidest polls allow you to choose not to.

Back to the really important Twitter topics, like fried tree frogs.

By: Tim Jones

Tim Jones — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 02:28:43 +0000

Thanks for that, Etche_homo. So it’s a pretty poor attempt at a poll that could have been more transparent re ownership and on a genuinely interesting topic. Sure looks that way.

I haven’t checked out the guy’s other polls; but even if he’s just scatter-gunning polls, all data have some interest. What are we seeing here? … strident atheists and strident “enter your religion 1 here ists” versus “enter your religion 2 here ists”

Is the religious belief profile of Twitterers important to know or important?

By: Etche_homo

Etche_homo — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 02:14:29 +0000

That would explain why I see so many participants…

There is a discreet “opt-out” link in the lower right corner, but it’s to “opt out of direct messages sent to you by POLLpigeon users. You need to log in to twitter via OAuth to opt out…”

Also a shame that the author of the poll is not shown directly on the page with the poll’s link (@SuperGoateeMaan), and its eventual purpose beyond pure entertainment value… but given his other polls, there probably isn’t one.