Comments on: Map of top 50 UK PR twitter people and their followers http://mediaczar.com/blog/2008/12/map-of-top-50-uk-pr-twitter-people-and-their-followers/ a blog by mat morrison Thu, 05 Aug 2010 09:23:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Mat http://mediaczar.com/blog/2008/12/map-of-top-50-uk-pr-twitter-people-and-their-followers/comment-page-1/#comment-334 Mat Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:07:37 +0000 http://mediaczar.com/blog/2008/12/map-of-top-50-uk-pr-twitter-people-and-their-followers/#comment-334 Thanks Jemima! A few notes: <ol> <li>I agree, we don't know "if people are reading each others' tweets", but we do see a lot of reciprocation here (i.e. "you follow me so I follow you"). <em>Reciprocity</em> is one of those social behaviours that is a big pointer for community-formation (which is interesting to us for all sorts of reasons), but it's also one of those behaviours that's easiest to influence. As such, it is also a "foot in the door" -- people are many times more likely to respond to someone to whom they have <em>already</em> reciprocated than they are to respond to a stranger. So we know <em>something</em> about these people and their relationships. </li> <li>We've got new data (collected and processed over the past weekend, so I'll be releasing some of the findings here. Lots of data tables for people to play with, should they be so inclined. It's all a lot easier to read than this!</li> <li>But really (like you) we're still not really satisfied. So I'm just setting up an eavesdropper bot that will listen in to the seed list's conversations and pull out any words with "@" in them (for those of you who don't twitter, these words signify tweets addressed to other users) and sotre them for statistical analysis. Expect data and results in the new year.</li> </ol> Thanks Jemima!

A few notes:

  1. I agree, we don’t know “if people are reading each others’ tweets”, but we do see a lot of reciprocation here (i.e. “you follow me so I follow you”). Reciprocity is one of those social behaviours that is a big pointer for community-formation (which is interesting to us for all sorts of reasons), but it’s also one of those behaviours that’s easiest to influence. As such, it is also a “foot in the door” — people are many times more likely to respond to someone to whom they have already reciprocated than they are to respond to a stranger. So we know something about these people and their relationships.
  2. We’ve got new data (collected and processed over the past weekend, so I’ll be releasing some of the findings here. Lots of data tables for people to play with, should they be so inclined. It’s all a lot easier to read than this!
  3. But really (like you) we’re still not really satisfied. So I’m just setting up an eavesdropper bot that will listen in to the seed list’s conversations and pull out any words with “@” in them (for those of you who don’t twitter, these words signify tweets addressed to other users) and sotre them for statistical analysis. Expect data and results in the new year.
]]> By: Jemima Gibbons http://mediaczar.com/blog/2008/12/map-of-top-50-uk-pr-twitter-people-and-their-followers/comment-page-1/#comment-333 Jemima Gibbons Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:04:44 +0000 http://mediaczar.com/blog/2008/12/map-of-top-50-uk-pr-twitter-people-and-their-followers/#comment-333 Hi Mat, As you know, I LOVE this tool you're developing. I guess Twitter is a great one to model as the paths of communication are so defined. Although you don't actually know if people are reading each others' Tweets even if they subscribe to them, but following at least shows respect for someone's views. Would love to talk to you more to see if there's some way of doing a mash-up between the Rufus map and research for my leadership 2.0 book. I have your no so will call you - prob Wednesday when the toddler's away! Jemima Hi Mat,
As you know, I LOVE this tool you’re developing. I guess Twitter is a great one to model as the paths of communication are so defined. Although you don’t actually know if people are reading each others’ Tweets even if they subscribe to them, but following at least shows respect for someone’s views. Would love to talk to you more to see if there’s some way of doing a mash-up between the Rufus map and research for my leadership 2.0 book. I have your no so will call you – prob Wednesday when the toddler’s away!
Jemima

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