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A Trip Through Twitter's Lazy Web

??? A TRIP THROUGH TWITTER'S LAZYWEB Sometimes we all get a little lazy. Luckily, we have lazyweb to help us out. WHAT IS LAZYWEB? LAZY TWEETS The term lazyweb has been used to describe the act of outsourcing ques- tions to people online, particularly when the people asking are admittedly too lazy to research themselves (think: bloggers to their readers, everyone else to all their friends). With Twitter, people around the world are asking #lazyweb what they don't want to Google. Roughly 72 TWEETS PER DAY include a lazyweb reference. 69% of these are actually questions. THE WORLD OF LAZYWEB MR. AND MS. POPULAR Top 5 Countries Using Lazyweb People with high follower accounts are over- whelmingly more likely to use lazyweb - and Australia Canada receive answers. US 36% UK 25% 10% 9% 4% New Zealand All Others Askers >100 Followers 87% "08 PAST THE LAZYWEB PRIME? <100 Followers 13% Lazyweb usage on Twitter peaked in 2008, and is expected to decline even more this year compared to last. Are people not as lazy anymore? Probably not. Tens of thousands of questions are asked on Twitter each day, but far fewer contain references to lazyweb today. Answer Rate >100 Followers 39% <100 Followers 8% "07 Lazyweb Mentions as % of All Tweets WHAT WE'RE TOO LAZY TO LOOK UP OURSELVES 27% Programming We're using lazyweb to get programming help, fix a problem, find restaurants, or get product Dear lazyweb, which browsers support document.querySelector AlI)? recommendations. 0010 0101 16% Tech Support I can't find the normal template (for MS Word) on my laptop. Even when search- ing for it. Where is it? #lazyweb 15% Product Recommendations Hey #lazyweb, any suggestions on a good yet cheap printer/scanner combo? Something under $250. 9% Local Suggestions Dear #lazyweb, looking for a Dutch bar in SF. 9% Web-Services 3% 3 7o Entertainment Lazyweb: What's a good service that lets me create #lazyweb What series/episodes of "Entourage feature Ari being offered the head of the studio job? ADMIT a 5 question survey, then invite 1000 specific Twitter users to answer it? 3% Business & Research Looking for research around con- sumer loyalty to domestic brands over foreign in Australia. Anyone packing? #lazyweb 3% Mobile Applications What's currently the best way to sync IPhone <-> Chrome bookmarks? lazyweb 3% Travel lazyweb Do I need a visa to go to Morocco (Marrakesh)? US citizen 3% Sports Asking for my Dad: Who's West Ham playing this weekend? tlazyweb 2% Food Quick! Someone give me the 27o Careers recipe for a vodka-based cocktaill lazyweb Serious question - is there such a thing as career advice for people my age? And where do I go to get it? lazyweb 5% other Lazyweb: What should I wear to a "daytime cocktall" wed- ding in PDX in July? Photos WILL be taken. Crestee Br COLUMN inboxQ FIVE www.inboxq.com

A Trip Through Twitter's Lazy Web

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We've found that the idea of asking and answering questions based on Lazyweb references or hashtags in Tweets has not scaled very well with Twitter usage.

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