Comments on: The Linguistics of ReTweets

By: 译文：如何在Twitter上获得锐推 | Coolxll's Secret Garden

译文：如何在Twitter上获得锐推 | Coolxll's Secret Garden — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:49:00 +0000

[...] 这周病毒式营销科学家Dan Zarrella 深入挖掘了锐推的数据并且发布了一些有趣关于锐推行为的统计。这些能够帮助我们更好的理解为什么人们锐推那些事，或许这些也能够帮助到你。 [...]

By: Memetics 2010: Notacon, MemeWeaving, MemeNote, and The Future | Meme Hacking

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:24:30 +0000

[...] that endanger life and limb to the reasons why Republicans succeed at squelching science to the linguistics of retweets and the analysis of 1337speak — it’s all welcome, and indeed, [...]

By: Don’t Judge A Book By Its Cover

Don’t Judge A Book By Its Cover — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:55:39 +0000

[...] guy by the name of Dan Zarrella has recently completed some research around what sort of wording gets ReTweeted the most, so day [...]

By: The Art of Getting ReTweeted

The Art of Getting ReTweeted — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:27:29 +0000

[...] guy by the name of Dan Zarrella has recently completed some research around what sort of wording gets ReTweeted the most so day [...]

By: » Ten Ways to Get Re-Tweeted - New England Social Media

» Ten Ways to Get Re-Tweeted - New England Social Media — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:21:57 +0000

[...] media. Here’s his comprehensive list. In general, messages that are retweeted tend to be written at a higher reading level and, on average, contain more syllables per word. Retweets also tend to contain a lot of [...]

By: brettburky

brettburky — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:52:55 +0000

hello Dan.

I have to say that i love the graphs. Is there any chance you could share where you are getting these wonderful graphs from. I would like to run some of the same tests for some research I am doing. Let me know if that is ok. If so please contact me through my email.

By: brettburky

brettburky — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:52:55 +0000

hello Dan.

By: brettburky

brettburky — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:52:55 +0000

hello Dan.

By: Ecopolitica » Twitter: Nem Bobagem, nem Bolha, Os Usos Sociais da Tuitagem

Ecopolitica » Twitter: Nem Bobagem, nem Bolha, Os Usos Sociais da Tuitagem — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 03:18:08 +0000

[...] já há algumas observações interessantes, a partir de análises do Twitter. As estatísticas de Dan Zarrella, por exemplo, comparando tuítes e retuítes (RTs). Elas mostram que retuítes trazem mais links [...]

By: Ecopolity » Twitter: Neither Babble, nor Bubble, the Social Uses of Tweeting

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:12:15 +0000

[...] already are some interesting findings from Twitter analyses, though. Like Dan Zarrella’s comparative stats of tweets and retweets (RTs). He shows, for instance, that retweets carry more [...]

By: Ann Wylie

Ann Wylie — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 15:02:05 +0000

Dan, what were some of the most/least common words you found? I’m intrigued by the novelty aspect of retweeting. Thanks!

By: darya

darya — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:44:03 +0000

Very cool idea, Dan. As a scientist, however, I want to reiterate the point about p-values and significance. I cannot interpret these numbers without error bars on the graphs. If the differences aren’t statistically significant then they aren’t, well, significant. Shouldn’t be too hard to run a quick t-test.

If you think there’s a trend but significance isn’t reached, increase your n.

Looking forward to more data!

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:11:05 +0000

In fact, I did just tweet that, less the “Crap dies where it is” (in order to include a link to this blog post).

Might as well test the idea. Let’s see if it gets re-tweeted.

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:07:33 +0000

A lot of the comments to this point seem, to me, to focus on only a single metric and to wonder how that can make a difference.

You have to look at the whole picture.

If I were going to summarize all the stats and charts in a tweet, it would have to be:

“Intelligent ideas, with links to valuable content, get re-tweeted. Crap dies where it is.”

By: Kenny

Kenny — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:48:39 +0000

I just love statistics. This is great stuff. Thanks for compiling all this data. Do you have any trend data over time?

By: Mat

Mat — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:54:15 +0000

Just wondering, what do you see the lifespan of twitter to be? Do you think it will morph into something else, or will it last for a limited amount of time then vanish?

By: Samuel Carrijo

Samuel Carrijo — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:36:46 +0000

About the readability grade, I believe it is because many news are retweeted, and usually newspapers use a “harder to understand” vocabulary for they can’t be too informal

By: Trefor Walters

Trefor Walters — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:47:07 +0000

@Adrian – In what way specifically were the graphs misleading?

Again, assuming you can supply an answer to the above question (surely a graph shows a graphical representation of numeric data, which are just numbers that do not have the ability to lead or mislead without interpretation), what is the relationship between the “misleading graphs” part of your statement and “you’re a noob”? How does one cause the other?

I’m also curious to understand how you apparently came to the conclusion that the data has been spun, and that Dan, should the data have been spun, didn’t mind doing it.

Especially considering that humans can’t do anything but subjectively experience and interpret everything, even “objective data”, based on internal belief and value filters.

The graphs themselves are not misleading – the narrative surrounding them perhaps, yes….

You are right though – the Average Syllables Per Word graph is naughty and should go and sit in the naughty corner.

By: Adrian Bailey

Adrian Bailey — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:59:01 +0000

Yeah – creating misleading graphs like that suggests that either (a) you’re a noob or (b) you don’t mind spinning the data.

By: mand

mand — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:20:57 +0000

Fascinating. Without trying to get anything to go viral, for commercial reasons or whatever, i am intrigued by the whole social/statistical nature of it. Surely hashtags would have as much effect as links? Among my own tweets the most-retweeted are those with hashtags such as #writing that are presumably put into search engines, so non-followers are picking up my tweets. I happened here from Twitter and very glad i did! :0)