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The Twitter Influence Ratio
http://allantyoung.com/ 2008/ 04/ 24/ the-twitter-infl...
“@kevinrose how do I get you to follow me back???” - anonymous self-proclaimed “social app guru” This is Part 2 of a series that explores the science of Social Media Measurement. Let me preface this post by saying that this is a lighthearted post trying to come up with a simple measurement regarding a hugely successful social web service. Previously, I explored the measurement of popularity, novelty, and attention on the very popular crowdsourcing news aggregation site Digg. My post was based on an arcane academic study involving the half-life of popularly “dugg” items.
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Twitter ratio - restrictions?
http://sylwiapresley.blogspot.com/2008/09/twitter-ration-res...One of my new twitter contacts mentioned that there is a 'secret twitter ratio' causing certain restrictions - but I do not really know what it means? Is Twitter restricting the amount of friends or followers? I looked for the info on different blogs writing about Twitter ratio (ratio of our Twitter followers to our friends) but I cannot see this being mentioned:/ Actually the ratio and its connection to human behaviour idea does reflect mine. I agree that some of use Twitter to chat, some to network, some to do it all and to gather knowledge. Here's my official Twitter ratio: To quote Scoble, I belong to those who 'want to learn more' which perfectly matches my intentions:) I would like to know thought if there are any rules connected to the Twitter ratio which might affect my account... [IMG Reblog this post [with Zemanta]]
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The Twitter Influence Ratio
http://businessontwitter.co.uk/twitter/2008/07/the-twitter-i...The Twitter Influence Ratio admin | Interesting Tweets, Twitter News | Monday, July 21st, 2008 Great post from Allan Young with his thoughts on ‘The Twitter Influence Ratio’ or how you can decide whether someone is following based on the number of people they follow and the number of people that follow them. Here’s an excerpt (accordign to this we have a Twitter Influence Ratio of 1.41 - we’re not sure if that makes us worth following or not!:
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Twitter-Spam & Social Climbers
http://NimbleTheory.com/the-blog/2008/5/9/twitter-spam-socia...So I've joined Twitter. While I can see some merit, I'm not yet convinced that it's a killer app and not just a fad. It feels something like a feature looking for an application. Perhaps I'm wrong. I often am. Certainly it looks to be taking off. Here's Allan Young's take on Twitter: The Twitter Influence Ratio With the Twitter Influence Ratio, we’re going to try and get a read on someone’s true influence level. It stands to reason that if you are interesting, have neat thoughts, and add value to the network, people will naturally gravitate to you and “follow you.” Some of the most influential members of Twitter have many more followers than people they follow. So the Twitter Influence Ratio will attempt to express this relationship as; Followers / Following = Twitter Influence Ratio Example: 533 / 609 = 0.875 In the above example, one such self-branded “social app guru” has 533 followers and is following 609 others. This gives him a Twitter Influence Ratio of only 0.875 which means this person is not very influential. Intuitively, you ought to have more followers interested in what you have to say than the number of people you’re following. One might say that 533 followers is nothing to sneeze at. I agree, but the fact that this person has so many followers and is following so many more makes it highly probable that he is what is known as a “friend whore” or “follow whore.” Like the desperate high schooler, he’s just trading votes. Someone with a TI Ratio of less than 1 but is only following 30 others is probably not out there actively trading votes or follows. If I were looking for a consultant, I would run away from this guy and find someone more influential. It's easy to see what Allan's talking about. My own Twitter Influence Ratio is abysmal, roughly two-to-one or .5. I guess I'll have to become more profuse in my twitting about... we'll, there's your problem.
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Allan Young: Twitter Influence Ratio
http://voxpopdesign.com/bloomburst/?p=342If you have any interest in social networks at all run - don’t walk - over to Allan Young’s post: The Twitter Influence Ratio. Given that I’m in the midst of some gnarly deadlines I can’t post the insightful follow up that such a piece deserves. However, Allan’s thoughtful observation backed with concrete analytics is a must read. Besides, let’s face it - you were just surfing the web on company time anyway. Really, what else were you planning on doing with your Friday afternoon?
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Allan Young: Twitter Influence Ratio
http://voxpopdesign.com/bloomburst/?p=342If you have any interest in social networks at all run - don’t walk - over to Allan Young’s post: The Twitter Influence Ratio. Given that I’m in the midst of some gnarly deadlines I can’t post the insightful follow up that such a piece deserves. However, Allan’s thoughtful observation backed with concrete analytics is a must read. Besides, let’s face it - you were just surfing the web on company time anyway. Really, what else were you planning on doing with your Friday afternoon?
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