Viral Tweet Test

I’m try­ing to con­duct a lit­tle study into how mes­sages travel in the Twitter-verse. Care to help? There are 2 steps you can take to help build data:

1) Retweet the link to this page, and ask your fol­low­ers to retweet it too (please use this tinyurl: http://tinyurl.com/4kldcj.)

2) Com­ment here on this page, with your Twit­ter user­name and the user­name of the per­son who’s Tweet caused you to come here.

If this works out, I should be able to have a bit of data to report on in a few days.

Update: The test was a much big­ger suc­cess than I had imag­ined. I’m begin­ning to pub­lish what I learned from it:

Results Part 1: Trend­ing Top­ics and Fork­ing URLs

Results Part 2: The Growth Time­line and Trans­mis­sion Rates