{"id":1256,"date":"2009-11-05T21:17:21","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T21:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/twitter-data-all-in-so-what\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T22:04:32","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T03:04:32","slug":"twitter-data-all-in-so-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/twitter-data-all-in-so-what\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Data &#8211; All In &#8230; So what?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My data collection is done and I have a ton to read and re-read. I am clearly at the &#8220;so what?&#8221; stage and still struggling with the impact of where (and who) I focused on during the data collection stage. That said, I do think I captured data to help me answer my primary research questions. Therefore, it may be more a case of gaining knowledge during the process that would re-focus my original research questions. For example, what about those who DON&#8217;T post anymore or very often? I focused on the sample of posters during my 5 hours of observation and I feel by picking 10 1\/2 hour slots during various times during a 10 day period I did a fair job of getting &#8220;off work&#8221; and &#8220;on work&#8221; commentary, but I made no effort (purposely) to reach out to those who don&#8217;t post. Which makes me wonder if there is something &#8220;different&#8221; in the motivations of those who post versus those who don&#8217;t (self-promotion, familiarity with online connections, privacy concerns, etc). Clearly questions for another study for another day, but plays into my &#8220;so what?&#8221; question. Is my focus sufficiently <b><i>important<\/i><\/b>?<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=54da2349-a10d-8a3a-bd9a-7a12b765fd36\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My data collection is done and I have a ton to read and re-read. I am clearly at the &#8220;so what?&#8221; stage and still struggling with the impact of where (and who) I focused on during the data collection stage. That said, I do think I captured data to help me answer my primary research&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[194,308],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-eci-890"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2905,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions\/2905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}