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Vitaly Friedman, editor-in-chief of Smashing Magazine, an online magazine for designers and web developers.
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Comment · 14 years ago
This mistake was corrected 30 minutes after the article was published. The article went through two technical reviews but apparently such mistakes still happen. Thanks for bringing it to our attention — the wording was incorrect.
Comment · 15 years ago
Thank you very much for the very interesting study. The truth is that your findings are actually fairly correct. The problem is, however, that the vast majority of those who reply, do not use the hashtag. They just don't. There are usually more, much more replies that the ones with the hashtag, although relatively speaking it's still not what you probably would expect.
A more accurate average number of replies can be estimated if you consider how many users participate in a poll:
http://twitter.com/#!/smashingmag/status/62126045498839040
This poll was published on a low traffic weekend day which is clearly reflected by the number of participants.
Polls published on weekdays have of coruse a better response ratio:
http://twitter.com/#!/smashingmag/status/55762312174370817
http://twitter.com/#!/smashingmag/status/54897184239398912
http://twitter.com/#!/smashingmag/status/54221240826732544
We never get over 1000 replies to a single tweet, but 300-500 replies is a very reasonable number, especially if it's accumulated over a couple of days.