Those who tweet a lot, cheat a lot?

Do you tweet a lot…. sorry, Do you cheat? The two questions are very much interlinked. According to a new research finding those who tweet excessively could have troubled relationships resulting in cheating, broken marriages and even jealousy.

The study was conducted by Russell Clayton, a doctoral student in the University of Missouri School of Journalism.

The study titled ‘The Third Wheel: The Impact of Twitter Use on Relationship Infidelity and Divorce’  was a result of detailed interviews with 581 twitter users aged between 18 to 67 years. 

The study found that “active Twitter use leads to greater amounts of Twitter-related conflict among romantic partners, which in turn leads to infidelity, breakup, and divorce.”

It is not just Twitter, excessive sue of Facebook too is said to have damaging effects on romantic relationships.

Clayton who had also worked on the earlier Facebook study however found that excessive use of the social network only caused troubled marriages in new relationships less than 36 months.

With twitter however there was no such time limitations. Excessive twitter users face troubled relationships even when they are 1 or 5 or 10 years in a relationship.

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