To help expand my ReTweeting research, please take my new survey and encourage your followers to do the same. My research has shown that the number of followers exposed to a Tweet has only a weak correlation to the number of ReTweets it gets, indicating that the content of the tweet may be more important […]
A topic of much recent discussion has been how do you quantify influence in social media and social networks. In the context of Twitter, much ado has been made of purely network-size-based statistics, which are easily gamed and present a shallow picture of the process of viral influence. Extending from the work I did with […]
The last few weeks have been kind of hectic for me, so its taken me longer than I’d wanted to update TweetSuite, but I’ve uploaded a new version with some bugfixes and a few new features. If you’re using and like TweetSuite, please consider voting for me in the Shorty Awards. The fixes include: AutoTweeting […]
TweetBacks are great, but they’re just a single feature, the integration of Twitter and blogging can and should go much deeper than that. And if you liked TweetBacks or TweetSuite, please vote for me in the Open Web Awards. So today I’m releasing the first version of TweetSuite, a Twitter-WordPress integration plugin that includes the […]
You should use TweetSuite rather than a TweetBacks plugin. I’ve just put together a WordPress Plugin that take advantage of the new features I built into TweetBacks. This is still beta stuff and you should expect updates to it soon and frequently. For the most part v.2 of the JS version works the easiest. Download […]
Since launching my implementation of TweetBacks a few days ago, the response has been much larger than I expected (in fact Twitter CEO Evan Williams remarked that he had just drawn TweetBacks on the Twitter whiteboard a few weeks ago), and the guys at MediaTemple have been great in working with me to help scale […]
Update: I’ve released a TweetBacks WordPress Plugin that includes TweetBacks as a feature. In response to a Mashable post about how Twitter will change blog design in 2009, yesterday I created Tweetbacks. They work kind of like trackbacks, but instead of listing blogs linking to a specific post, it lists Tweets about a specific post. […]