Real Geeks Don't Tweet

More than 1,000 Geek 2 Geek members participated in a survey to rate some of the most visited websites. The most surprising result was that Twitter, the popular social networking and microblogging site, was rated unfavorably by more than 3 out of 5 geeks who had an opinion about it. On a scale from 1 to 100, Twitter’s overall rating was a poor 38. By contrast, Facebook had an overall rating of 63, with more than 70% of geeks reporting a favorable opinion.

Many other sites were rated much more favorably. Two sites, Google and Wikipedia, tied for top honors with 96% favorable ratings and 88 overall. At the bottom of the list was AOL, with an 8% favorable and 14 overall rating.

The second most popular search engine, Microsoft’s Bing, was far down the list, with 33% having a favorable opinion and an overall rating of just 35.

The survey asked people to indicate their opinion (if they had one) of various popular sites. The choices were "highly favorable", "favorable", "unfavorable", and "highly unfavorable". Scoring was based on a scale giving 100 points to a "highly favorable" rating and 0 points to a "highly unfavorable" rating.

Here are the complete results:

Website	Overall Rating	Percent Favorable
Amazon	83	93
AOL	14	8
Bing	35	33
Craigslist	68	78
eBay	72	84
Facebook	63	71
Google	88	96
Imdb	87	97
LinkedIn	55	60
MSN	37	34
Netflix	83	90
PayPal	73	83
Twitter	39	39
Wikipedia	88	96
Yahoo!	55	60
YouTube	84	96