Here are just a few of the many fantastic female travel twitterers I follow.

@wendyperrin and @perrinpost – avid traveller who looks out for consumers and tweets some great deals & advice

@nerdseyeview – a great snark and amazing travel photos

@heather_poole – for useful (& funny) insight as a flight attendant

I think it’s difficult to split by gender too. The ‘reasons’ I suggested were more than a little tongue in cheek. My prime concern isn’t what gender someone is – it’s whether someone’s interesting. And that’s why I won’t be doing a list of top 15 female twitterers – it’s almost like saying “this lot are alright – for girls”. I may do a revised top twitterers list in a few months’, however.

I don’t have a family myself but I do follow some family travel tweeters, largely because they are people I have another connection with through blogging. I could argue that family travel is equally as relevant for fathers as for mothers.

I follow a lot of foodies because my blog is about travel and food. It’s interesting that you class this as a traditional women’s topic, as I follow a lot of male foodie tweeters. It’s almost equally split for me in food, whereas I follow mainly women in travel.

As for volume, I find it’s down to the individual tweeter how ‘noisy’ they are. I’m not sure I could really generalise along gender lines at least based on the people I follow. Statistically I’ve heard more women than men use social media in general and that might be true.

The humour thing is rubbish – I follow a lot of wonderfully funny and witty women on Twitter, both in the travel sphere and more widely.

Looking forward to a followup post – top 15 female travel tweeters!

Signed,

totally confused about RTing in NJ.:)

It’s all good. Thanks, guys.

Very interesting point about the list being almost all male. I’d honestly not noticed that (I don’t even know if @globtrav is male or female, for instance).

But looking at it (and at the risk of unleashing a whole host of sweeping generalisations), I probably do follow more males than females. I also know that a high percentage of the people I have stop following are female; many for the noisiness reason you suggest. One, for example, is recommended on nearly all best twitterer lists, but I found the barrage unbearable.

I guess a lot comes down to personal taste – traditional ‘women’s travel’ areas (luxury, cruising, food, spas, family) are ones I generally try and avoid as I don’t have a real interest in them.

Other battle of the sexes stuff that may hold true as well (not necessarily my opinion, but possibly good for discussion):

- Men tend to use humour more in Tweets, women are more serious.
- Women will send a stream of Tweets on the same subject.
- Women buy into the whole networking thing more, men treat Twitter more like hanging out at the bar.
- Women are better at coping with more ‘noise’ and are happier to follow more people.

3, 2, 1, Go. Preferably with claws out.

@denschaal – glad you could drop by. I wouldn’t worry too much about the RTing. You’ve such an impressive level of inside knowledge that it becomes an irrelevent bugbear. What you have to say is almost always worth reading – I probably shouldn’t have even brought the RTing tendency up.

I’m not 100% travel 100% of the time, however. I also tweet about food, journalism, politics and life, but mainly travel.

I like to have conversations with people – but fortunately you won’t see that unless you are following those people.

I’m fascinated that they are nearly all men. Why do you think this is? Perhaps the old adage about women talking more holds true on Twitter – we might tweet more and to you that’s excessive noise. I don’t know. I am the reverse – I follow far more women than men on Twitter, though not intentionally.

I used to find excessive tweeting annoying but now that I follow nearly 1000 people, the stream is usually pretty nicely mixed even if someone does tweet a lot. I don’t try to read everything on Twitter – it would be impossible. I dip in and out, use groups in TweetDeck and check @mentions and DMs.

I am doing Follow Friday on my blog – just two people a week (one food, one travel) and context about why I think they are worth following. I think this is more useful to my readers/followers and also helps the person I’m recommending because I usually include outbound links to their site. http://www.roamingtales.com/fo.....n-twitter/