There's a chance your last fling was short-lived because your significant other just wouldn't stop tweeting. In an era when tweeting can be ubiquitous via multiple devices, there are statistics to back up that possibility; if you tweet frequently, you're likely to have shorter relationships, says a report from dating site OkCupid.
The site regularly publishes reports on sex and dating based on data culled from millions of OkCupid users. In the most recent findings, it says both men and women of all ages that tweet every day have shorter relationships than non-tweeters. For example, relationships of 18-year-olds in the twitterverse last an average of about nine months, while the average length of relationships of infrequent tweeters of the same age is closer to 10 months. At the same time, 50-year-old tweeters' relationships tend to last about 15 months but for everyone else, relationships last about two months longer.
"Unfortunately, we have no way to tell who's dumping who here; whether the twitterati are more annoying or just more flighty than everyone else," the site noted.
It's also more likely that frequent tweeters masturbated today. In fact, the odds are two to one. This stat, like the findings on relationship length, it true for both genders and all ages, OkCupid says.
OkCupid is a free online dating site with seven million members that judges peoples' compatibility and matches them based on their answers to thousands of questions. It was recently acquired by Match.com for $50 million. In January, it published a report that found that more attractive women tend to be lonelier.