The Male-Female Ratio In Social Networks
Do you know that more than 80 % of the social networking sites have more female user’s than male. This includes: Twitter, Facebook, Digg, Myspace, Friendfeed etc.The folks at Pingdom have come up with a nice study as illustrated by the folowing chart:
It’s interesting to see that
- Most of the social sites have more female readers than male.
- Bookmarking and microblogging sites (like Delicious, Facebook and Twitter) maintain an equal balance among male and female users.
- Males outweigh females on Social news sites like Digg, Reddit and Slashdot.
The data has been gathered from Google ad planner.
And here is another graph that shows the ratio of male and female users in different social networking sites
really tough to believe, more female tweeps on twitter? if true, really interesting
Yes Raju, Even i was quite amazed with the stat ! Thanks for the comment.
Not true for India. The M:F ratio still hovers on the 80:20 number. Source: FB stats for targeting.
@Gayatri: Yes true but the stats are true when compared with the entire world audience. Thanks for your comment.