Identifying influencers on Twitter

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13 points·abraham··10 comments

Meh. I'm "influenced" by Whet Moser and Liz Ptacek; I happen to be related to them. "Influence" apparently means "have ever RT'd them".

How did you expect influence to work?

Something works that way, but it's probably not as interesting as "influence".

If you read somebodies tweet you are influenced by it. The influence might only be to the extent that you have consumed the content but it is there.

Klout.com is another pretty popular one. How Does backtype differentiate itself from all the other services that do the same thing?

Identifying influencers is important, but that's not the sole feature of our product. We already differentiate ourselves with other features (which Klout et al. don't offer): visit backtype.com and try it out. Thousands of people use it every day.

I influence @zoecello. <3

This is quite cool, but the Login with Twitter piece needs a bit of work, the branded login page looks sketchy right now with missing images and poor UI. I almost didn't sign up due to the sketchiness of it.

Wow, that is sketchy. That's on Twitter's end, something must have broke recently (today) because I've never seen that before on any of their auth pages. (mike from backtype)

I've followed peerindex.net for a while which does the same thing.

Typed in my Twitter ID and was told search was retired and to join beta. FAIL.

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