Do You Know Who is Following You On Twitter ? Their Gender ?

Do you ever think who is following  you on Twitter.  Yes you can find it out. You can find the demographics which is nothing but the data of your followers and also gender of your followers. Or the people who are too lazy by default to change their profile pic may they are Twitter bots.

There is a facility in Facebook like The Graph Search of Facebook. This search provides demographics of the people who are connected with you on the social network. For ex: you can search with natural query language “My friends who are older than 40” or “My female friends who live in Mumbai” and you will find the answer right there instantly.

This demographics search is not available for Twitter users. The interesting fact is that this can be done programmatically and can find the gender of a person on Twitter in Twitter API. Just take the profile picture of the user and feed it in the Siftr’s Vision API and it will identify the gender in the photograph. It even provides the approximate age of the subject in the pic if you go a step ahead and check in Face API

The web app Meet Twitter Analyzer, helps you to analyze your twitter followers and gives you all the details of  all user inside a Google Spreadsheet. You can know the gender, how often they tweet, when did they join the twitter and much more details. To get started with this analyzer just browse labno.org/analyzer and get signed in with your google account and grant permissions to analyse.  You will get an confirmation after you grant permission.  Then click on “ Authorize Twitter” to access your Twitter account.  Next you need to click the scan button and close the page.  Now you will get an email with the number of followers you have.

It is also very much useful to find whether your followers are Human or Twitter bots

·         The account must be tweeted  at least 50 tweets

·         the account should have at least 30 followers

·         Make sure that the profile contains a URL

·         The profile should always have an image

·         the profile should contain a biography

·         and last but not least it has been inserted into other Twitter lists