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Whilst the drive for popularity might be most obviously manifest in thoroughbred social networking sites such as Facebook or MySpace, it is also present, albeit less conspicuously, in sites where social objects (e.g. videos, photos, bookmarks) are nominally the focus. Similarly, the prominence given to ‘number of followers’ (interesting terminology again) in Twitter is instructive, as is the existence of services such as TwitDirand Andrew Baron’s recent (abortive) attempt to auction his Twitter account (with followers, naturally).
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De siste ukene har det vært en merkbar økning av nordmenn på Twitter. På twitdir gir et søk på “norway” 490 treff. Siden mange ikke skriver inn verken hva de heter eller hvor de bor, er dette bare en del av de norske “twitterne”. Uansett har det blitt veldig mange flere siden vi skrev om mikroblogging i fjor høst. På den tiden var det ukesvis mellom hver gang noen kvitret på norsk.
New algorithm
I’m working on a new algorithm to follow the growth of Twitterers.
I’d like to be able to use it ASAP, but I still need to fine tune it.
FYI I’ve found some Twitterers that weren’t in TwitDir. I will add them soon.
I’ll keep you posted
Some improvements…
Hi fellow twitterers and twitdir friends,
I haven’t made change in TwitDir code for a while and I realized that some things needed to be done.
A few weeks ago, Charles Curran sent me an email with some remarks about the navigation bar.
I took in consideration his remarks, and made the changes. Thanks Charles.
The navigation bar is now replicated at the bottom and the confusing wording in the nav bar is now simpler : previous and next!
Hope you’d like…
Laurent
Andrew Baron, founder of Rocketboom is selling his Twitter account on eBay. With the current bid of 510 USD, each of his 1481 followers is worth .34 USD to the buyer. That is little more than you would pay for a click in Google Ads, which bears some interesting implications for everbody interested in monetizing Twitter attention at a large scale (e.g. Twitter). So if you would find a way of grabbing the attention of all twitter users (TwitDir tracks almost a million twitter users), this collective attention would be worth 330435 USD, which is much less than the 21 million valuation estimated by Techcrunch.Turning the calculation around, and taking this 21.88 USD per user valuation, however Andrew Baron’s account would be worth 32411 USD
