The Asymptotic Twitter Curve

News Type: Opinion — Seeded on Fri Dec 15, 2006 8:50 PM EST

Article Source: Creating Passionate Users

We've all been at the brain bandwidth breaking point for the last five years. Email is out of control. IM'ing sucks up half the day. And how can we not read our RSS feeds, post to our blogs, and check our stats? If my Cingular cell phone sends me a MySpace alert and I'm not there to get it, do I exist? But email, IMs, social networking, and blogs are nothing compared to the thing that may finally cause time as we know it to cease. I'm talking, of course, about Twitter.

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Who's leading the conversation?

This visualization below allows you to see the impact that each user has on the current conversation. The top row contains the group of users who have had the most impact, the 2nd row the group of users who have had the 2nd most impact (et cetera). Users with similar impact are grouped together, and the average score of the group is shown to the left of the group. The author of the article is also shown on the left, in their corresponding group. Each user's score is based on the number of comments the user has made plus the number of votes their comments have received. The scores are calculated relative one another, so while their absolute value is not particularly important, their relative difference does indicate a larger difference in impact on the conversation.

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Djehuty

Great article describing a whole lot of truth!!

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1 vote

#1 - Sat Dec 16, 2006 7:39 AM EST

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Marilyn L

Too true, Mike. Says to herself: I will not look at Twitter, not look at Twitter, not look at Twitter. However, I can't stop looking at the Conversation Tracker, which runs a close second to Twitter in my book! ;)

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1 vote

#2 - Sat Dec 16, 2006 7:53 AM EST

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Lee Stone

That's true. As soon as a new comment appears, I very quickly check the article. I also keep frequently re-loading the page to see if the tracker has updated.

Fortunately I've learnt to ignore most of the comments made from friends in articles I haven't commented in.

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1 vote

#2.1 - Sat Dec 16, 2006 3:17 PM EST

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Aine MacDermot

I'm already twittering, thanks to Irma, who always drags me into these things... not that I mind. *grin*

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1 vote

#3 - Mon Dec 18, 2006 4:59 AM EST

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MIKE D.

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