So our silly (and very contentious) poll has come to an end a little early, due to our Viget Labs optimization experience. The final tally?
- Jaiku – 199
- Twitter – 97
- Pownce – 90
- All – 30
- None – 17
This map, provided by LComm client FortiusOne’s GeoCommons service (featured on page 23 of July’s Business 2.0) shows the breakdown of US voters.
However, until Jaiku staffer Andrew Malach decided to blast the poll out on the Jaiku network on July 11th, Jaiku was overwhelmed 5-1 by Twitter. In a period of twelve hours the ratio dramatically changed to 5:2 in Jaiku’s favor. The poll paced that way for the remaining 14 days. Neither Twitter or Pownce corporate participated in this fashion.
Interestingly, the poll did register geographic data and a vast proportion of the Jaikuers were in Europe. Since the poll was meant for my readers and 78 percent of them are in the United States, we decided to show you the domestic breakdown of Twitter versus Pownce versus Jaiku voters.
Pownce
Jaiku
What does these maps tell us? This can’t be described as an accurate sampling of U.S. users… only Buzz Bin readers. In the U.S. it was really close between Pownce and Twitter. Pownce may have edged out Twitter, but I’m not going to call that. We couldn’t map all of the votes so there could be a hanging chad.
This should not be a surprise as I have 4 x as many Pownce friends as Twitter “followers,” but Twitter absolutely dominates the marketplace. So I pulled from Pownce, and non Pownce readers favored Twitter. And that my readers really don’t like Jaiku that much. This validates the recent decision to continue using both Twitter and Pownce.
Also, you can see that my readers tend to be in the eastern seaboard of U.S. with some mid-west and Texan spice, plus a very strong San Francisco contingent. I think these results are representative of the pre July 11th Jaiku network announcement.
We also learned that online polls are silly, and cannot be looked at objectively. If the Buzz Bin ever runs another poll it will be very tongue in cheek. Thanks again to FortiusOne and GeoCommons for their support. You can access all of the data – US, Asia and Europe on GeoCommons under the keyword microblog.
Technorati Tags: Jaiku, Pownce, Twitter, FortiusOne, GeoCommons
I never really liked Jaiku. On the Other hand, Twitter and Pownce are cool but I think both sites need to consider some serious feature-boost. Btw, great blog!
CNet’s Real Deal 68:
Dude, this had to have been rigged!!!! I tried all three and pownce is definitely better.