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twitter influence

December 2009

  • Googling for Tiger Woods

    Thu 10th

    Search used to be about building up a quasi-permanent form of authority. Through the gadgets in the search engine optimization toolbox, marketers sought to create an inherently static world, where the most authoritative pieces of content were privileged on SERPs, almost in perpetuity.

November 2009

  • Metrics Move from Website to Consumer

    Wed 18th

    Website metrics have been slotted in alongside social media metrics in the category of new measurements that would phase out offline surveys and focus groups. I disagree. I think website metrics are increasingly in the rearview of the digital marketing ecosystem, cruising along sluggishly while social media metrics blow by them in the passing lane.

  • We all Sense the Ghost Tweeters

    Mon 16th

    As twitter gained mainstream recognition, it became de rigeur to be on there. Politicians, artists, sports agents–each segment saw in twitter a conversation stream in which they HAD to have a voice. But if twitter had not achieved such rapid growth, would the glitterati have flocked to it?

  • Edelman builds the twitter influence formula to end all twitter influence formulas

    Wed 11th

    meaningful and accurate measures of influence are those that correlate twitter activity with real world activity. We need to establish an objective, external basis for influence; we can’t simply compute twitter influence as some amalgam of its own constituent parts (followers, lists, retweets, etc.). Real influence is about so much more than that. I think that’s what Brian Solis is talking about when he says that trust agents or influencers are ”omnipresent.” Their authority transcends the narrow confines of any particular medium. Their influence carries a universal scope; it goes beyond 140 character spurts and seeps into the real actions and attitudes that people undertake and adopt.