Comments on: Twitter’s Suggested Users are Less ReTweetable

By: Carl Ingalls

Carl Ingalls — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:43:38 +0000

Dan,
Thank you for yet another excellent article. You were one of the people I had in mind when I tweeted, “Anything worth doing is worth measuring.”
Carl Ingalls

By: murmur55

murmur55 — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:30:20 +0000

let’s see twitterers organized based on their category…science, celebrity, activism, social-media maven, marketing etc…that would tease out data that has more significance…

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 17:32:37 +0000

My impression of the “suggested” is a list of “trophy accounts”. It starts in sales that you highlight your presitge factor and attract those that want to associate with that level of clientele.

That’s all. It keeps it interesting for those that are wanting a quick follow list.

By: Mat

Mat — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:03:34 +0000

I wonder why the suggested users dont twitter as much but are still ” suggested”.

I dont use twitter (but intend to start) so maybe i will look into it more.

By: Kathie

Kathie — Sat, 30 May 2009 16:42:10 +0000

I’m new to Twitter, so if I’m totally failing social media etiquette with this approach, please let me know! But I have to wonder – why RT them at all? My viewpoint is that my network (tiny though it may be) would already be aware of top and suggested users, and would have followed them if they wanted. I don’t need the same story from 20 different sources. @RotaryKat

By: ZenShadow

ZenShadow — Sat, 30 May 2009 07:02:46 +0000

I’m reminded of a similar ‘white paper’ (tongue firmly in cheek) blogpost I wrote awhile back (lost to history I’m afraid!) … in it I developed the “Paris Ratio” which is based on:
1. Your name or meme-name google count
2. Paris Hilton’s google count
3. “John Smith” google count (common name filter)

computation was fairly straight forward (but long forgotten) which let you know your ‘fame value’ vs. Paris Hilton’s fame value.

Additional ‘white paper’ produced regarding the value of Micheal Jackson’s handshake (back when he was selling his handshake or something MJish like that).

Good to know the silly metrics live on in Twitterville!

By: Justyn

Justyn — Sat, 30 May 2009 06:58:36 +0000

Very insightful (though I think we all could have guessed). Another interesting metric would be celebs vs. non celebs in the suggested users list.

Sure, people retweet celebrities – partly in hopes to catch celebs attention, or just associate their name with the celeb. But not necessarily because what they say is interesting.

The non-celeb suggested users are RT’d because what they say is actually interesting. As such, they should almost be included in the other category.

Basically, that’s a long way of saying that celebs are retweeted because they are celebs, not because the tweets have any value.

By: keeperofdreams

keeperofdreams — Sat, 30 May 2009 01:52:33 +0000

i am a newbie and i find these stats very interesting, thanks for your time and effort, someone has to question how twitter really works. lol

By: @fundingpost venture capital

@fundingpost venture capital — Fri, 29 May 2009 15:02:32 +0000

Anyone notice that they have the half the cast of Star Trek TNG on there? Punky Brewster, Weird Al, Jessica and Ashley Simpson, and the Dell Outlet for questions on your broken refurbished dell. I understand your statistic
Joe

By: Matches Malone

Matches Malone — Fri, 29 May 2009 14:34:25 +0000

Great stuff, as always!!! Of course, this is still not necessarily a calculation of Authority.

By: Glen Allsopp

Glen Allsopp — Fri, 29 May 2009 13:26:45 +0000

You have way too much time on your hands, Dan.

Haha just kidding, excellent info and great analysis. Thanks for putting it together!

Cheers,
Glen