In you’re a John Mellencamp fan – and who isn’t! – then “Authority Song” ranks right up there when it comes to cranking it to 11.
Over the past few days, the Twittersphere has become obsessed with authority – nice segue-way, eh! – after Loic Le Meur asked for a new search methodology based on the idea that people with the most followers have the most authority…or something like that.
This call-to-action prompted Jon Wheatley to create Twitority during a 12-hour development binge. If you can it to work, it’s not a bad service but I think it’s already been trumped Twithority, developed by Ryan Sit.
What I particularly like about Twithority is the interface, which produces results using two columns: one for authority (the most followers) and the other based on time (the most recent ranking the highest).
To me, it’s an elegant and fair way to present different takes for a Twitter search – one meeting the needs of Loic and the other meeting the needs of the vast majority of Twitter searchers.
You can read more about Twithority on the blog of Sean Percival, who asked Ryan Sit to create an authority mash-up.
Update: Mike Arrington suggests one way of measuring authority is how retweets (RTs) someone attracts. Arrington also has a post on DMFail. Apparently if you use DM [someone's name], it’s not a private message.
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John Mellencamp Would be Proud
In you’re a John Mellencamp fan – and who isn’t! – then “Authority Song” ranks right up there when it comes to cranking it to 11.
Over the past few days, the Twittersphere has become obsessed with authority – nice segue-way, eh! – after Loic Le Meur asked for a new search methodology based on the idea that people with the most followers have the most authority…or something like that.
This call-to-action prompted Jon Wheatley to create Twitority during a 12-hour development binge. If you can it to work, it’s not a bad service but I think it’s already been trumped Twithority, developed by Ryan Sit.
What I particularly like about Twithority is the interface, which produces results using two columns: one for authority (the most followers) and the other based on time (the most recent ranking the highest).
To me, it’s an elegant and fair way to present different takes for a Twitter search – one meeting the needs of Loic and the other meeting the needs of the vast majority of Twitter searchers.
You can read more about Twithority on the blog of Sean Percival, who asked Ryan Sit to create an authority mash-up.
Update: Mike Arrington suggests one way of measuring authority is how retweets (RTs) someone attracts. Arrington also has a post on DMFail. Apparently if you use DM [someone's name], it’s not a private message.
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