Assumptions in this post: >Who reads xkcd?... In the process, we've scraped 20,000+ xkcd tweets >Although Twitter doesn't contain gender data for tweeters, we

Assumptions in this post: >Who reads xkcd?... In the process, we've scraped 20,000+ xkcd tweets >Although Twitter doesn't contain gender data for tweeters, we were able to identify the gender of each user by their first name. >We again applied fuzzy string matching to match a reference set of time zones/countries/continents to each tweeter's self-reported time zone. >We had to make one critical assumption here - namely, that people will tweet shortly after reading. >We measured this on Twitter by defining: Popularity = # of Followers Likability Ratio = # Followers / # Following The likability one takes the cake though. Celebrities would be popular and likable. So would people who bought fake followers. People who like to follow a lot would be unlikeable.