Published on Tuesday, January 20, 2009 .

Marian Salzman (our Global CMO here at Porter Novelli) has had the inspired idea of getting people in the agency to tweet about the most exciting story this week (probably) — the inauguration of Barack Obama
You can see the results of the experiment on her blog.
I’m all for this, of course, for several reasons:
- It gets new people onto Twitter
- It helps us create a stronger network among Porter Novelli twitterers
- It means I can track who at the agency is on Twitter
Continue reading ‘Map of Porter Novelli people on Twitter on 17th Jan 2008′
Published on Tuesday, January 13, 2009 .
This is a map of the current US congressmen and women who are currently on Twitter (you can click it to see a bigger map where you can read the names.) The direction of the arrows show who follows whom, and the size of the blobs indicates how “popular” a given congressperson is among their twittering peers (where “popular” means something like “is followed by many of their peers.”) Colours indicate party affiliation (for those of you who — like me — don’t live in the ‘States and who — like me — need reminding from time to time, the Democrats are the blue dots.)

Network of US Congress twitterers showing citation frequency. Click for bigger.
A cursory glance at this map shows a few things:
Continue reading ‘Network map of US Congress twitterers’