More Twitter Tweep Dynamics
So, the more popular Twitter gets, the more sites that pop up about Twitter. It’s amazing to me to see all this activity and how many people are truly getting into this community. It seems to be getting bigger and bigger every day. I mean, there are more apps, more sites, more people following me (which is kind of creepy… wish they’d think of another term, LOL), and on and on. I mean, some people have tens of thousands of followers! I’m still a small fry with only… let me look… Today, it’s 763.
Oh, and I have 1,237,358 second order followers. Holy smokes!! That’s the number you get when you add up all the people that are following the people that are following me. But sad to say that my centralization is “fragile.”
I suck.
But wait… Maybe not. The more followers you have, apparently, the lower your centralization.
But my Social Capital is “High Average.” That’s kind of mediocre, right? I mean, it’s like a C+! I do suck!
Oh well…
How do I find all this out?
Twinfluence, of course!
Just put your Twitter username and password in there and bingo! You can find out if you suck, too.
And unless you’re an online rock star, you probably do.
But wait… My rank is 3,306. If I have all those millions of second-tier followers, that doesn’t seem so bad, right?
Maybe I don’t suck, after all.
I’ll have to look for another site that tells me I don’t or I just won’t sleep tonight. Quick, throw me an anchor!
Edward Moore
January 14th, 2009 at 12:39 pm #
Pat,
Thanks for another great post about Twitter. I hadn’t checked my twInfluence for awhile and was pleasantly surprised when I did.
I even took a screen shot of me at #37, as the stats do change quickly on there. It tells me I now have a reach of over 8 million people World Wide.
To your health,
Edward Moore
Pat Marcello
January 14th, 2009 at 2:24 pm #
Whoa Edward,
You’re smokin’! That’s awesome.
I suck.
Pat
Dylan F.
January 23rd, 2009 at 11:33 pm #
If you’ve ever looked into twitter clients, you might want to try TweetDeck. It has a feature where you can “follow” certain terms that are used by all of the users of twitter (like SEO, for example). Following terms you’re interested in can help you find more people and increase your influence even more.
Pat Marcello
January 24th, 2009 at 5:10 pm #
Hi Dylan, Yeah. I have Tweet Deck, but am hooked on TwitterFox. I’ll have to give Tweet Deck another try, though because so many people to follow is confusing. I’m at the point where I really need to sort things out. Thanks for your comment!
– Pat
Rebecca
January 26th, 2009 at 1:19 am #
I am not a fan of the twitter-style website, particularly when it is designed for anything of consequence. It seems to me that anyone that can actually get to the top of these lists is undeserving, because they probably spend to much time online sending links to others.
Enjoy your place in the three-thousands! Taking it with a grain of salt means that you don’t suck after all!
Props.
Becca