Comments on: A Very Beta ReTweet Mapper

By: LarryBlanken

LarryBlanken — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 02:31:31 +0000

Dan, I'm really impressed by your retweet work. Tell me, Can this be done easily in the other direction? In other words, there are many lists of who gets retweeted, but who are the top retweeters?

By: 85 Twitter Tools

85 Twitter Tools — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:09:09 +0000

[...] ReTweet Mapper allows you to see a ranking of the most ReTweeted people on Twitter 71. ReTweet Radar puts togethr [...]

By: sean malarkey

sean malarkey — Sat, 30 May 2009 12:17:13 +0000

Dan,

Did you give up on this? It seems like an excellent idea.

Sean

By: zyxo

zyxo — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:34:50 +0000

Nice tool.
With all these twittertools that allready available, it is amazing that people (like you) still find new ways of exploiting the info in twitter.

By: Jag SEO Follow

Jag SEO Follow — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:50:11 +0000

Great i like to retweet a lot

By: RaaVi@Social Media

RaaVi@Social Media — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 05:58:22 +0000

Great tool… an apps for twitter addicted users ( like me )

By: ppmartin

ppmartin — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 03:23:00 +0000

“Gremlin”, sorry for the typo.

By: ppmartin

ppmartin — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 03:22:22 +0000

Quite exciting, but there is no valid link to the Retweet Mapper, only to a specific exemple of using the Retweet Mapper.

Probably the work of some New Year Grelim?

By: Ed

Ed — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:38:51 +0000

Dan is on a tear!
Well done.
-Ed

By: Brant

Brant — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 21:08:53 +0000

Fascinating stuff — thanks for sharing!

I wonder if you could somehow generate tags for the retweets (and/or the content at the end of any links they contain) to try and figure out the topics your “most ReTweeted” are Twittering about (might prove interesting WRT the silly “authority” discussions going on), trending topics, etc. No idea if the auto-taggers of the world are smart enough to make something like this possible/useful, but could be fun.

@brants

By: silverzippo

silverzippo — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 07:46:22 +0000

Agree with Adam Engst. The “most retweeted” function would be much more interesting if you normalized for the number of followers that someone has if this has not already been done in the data. Else you end up merely proving over and over again that those with lots of followers get retweeted more often.

By: Adam C. Engst

Adam C. Engst — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 17:22:51 +0000

As Rodney says, how often something is retweeted would seem to be a function largely of audience size and the type of information. It’s pretty clear from looking at who’s appearing that it’s people with a huge number of followers who generally post things that are links to external resources.

So I guess what I’m saying is, isn’t this just pointing out the obvious? It’s nice to have confirmation, but I’d be more interested if it would point out something that’s a bit more subtle about the retweeting phenomenon.

cheers… -Adam

By: Rodney Rumford

Rodney Rumford — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 10:14:39 +0000

Dan,
This tool rocks. It really exposes one of the viral components that most people don’t understand about Twitter. The art and science of the retweet is really based on a combination of influence, audience size, value of the information, time of day, listeners ability to hear the message, etc.

I actually wrote a case study in my upcoming Definitive Guide to Using Twitter where we had a large retweet response and actually measured, dissected, and analyzed at how many separate layers/degrees it radiated out, traffic drawn and ultimate conversions on the backside. This is truly fascinating information.

I actually think this is just the tip of the value iceberg submerged in Twitter. Thanks for shedding some light on this with this really nice early stage tool.

Cheers!
Rodney Rumford
http://facereviews.com/twitter-book

By: Dan Zarrella

Dan Zarrella — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 23:02:33 +0000

@bill thanks

@mollybob thanks, not sure if you noticed, but you can click through the images to play with the tools.

By: Mollybob

Mollybob — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 22:49:39 +0000

I really like your idea with the mapper. Even without a work related interest, it will provide some valuable insights into how people use Twitter. I’m looking forward to seeing the finished product.

By: Bill Hartzer

Bill Hartzer — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 15:01:38 +0000

Very cool tools, will definitely check them out.

By: Jeremy Rivera

Jeremy Rivera — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 23:15:42 +0000

ah I see now- thx

By: Dan Zarrella

Dan Zarrella — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:39:01 +0000

There are three features I’ve linked to here, Mapper, search and the most retweeted.

By: Jeremy Rivera

Jeremy Rivera — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:36:09 +0000

It looks awesome, but I’m confused by the terminology of
“beta”…It looks like these are screenshots and links to 1 of the functions… or am I missing something..