Tag Archives: social media

What’s Your Social Street Cred?

By Mark Evans | Published: August 13, 2010

After posting yesterday about RetweetRank, someone suggested I take a look at PeerIndex, a start-up that is mapping the social Web and giving everyone an authority ranking using an algoritm that takes into account the information we share, and how this information is shared (retweeted, commented on) by people who are authorities on that topic. [...]

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A Look at Twitter’s “Suggestions for You”

By Mark Evans | Published: August 6, 2010

After reading about Twitter’s new “Suggestions for You” tool, I finally got a chance to see it in action – for those of you who haven’t heard of it, “Suggestions for You” provides a list of people who you might want to follow using an algorithm that explores your existing friends. In typical Twitter fashion, [...]

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Twitter Rolls Out New Follower Tool

By Mark Evans | Published: July 31, 2010

I’m not a big user of Twitter.com but a new feature now being rolled out could make it a lot more useful and interesting. Yesterday, Twitter said it will be introducing “Suggestions for You”, which will displays other Twitter users that you may want to follow. Twitter said the feature is built on an algorithm [...]

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How About More Twitter User Info?

By Mark Evans | Published: July 30, 2010

Earlier this month, I wrote a post that Twitter should create a registration system in which people would pay an annual fee for a username in the same way they people for a domain name. This would prevent people from squatting on usernames, and provide Twitter with a way to generate a significant amount of much-needed revenue. [...]

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Facebook or Twitter?

By Mark Evans | Published: July 29, 2010

I saw a tweet by a well-known blogger and technology executive that he was spending far less time on Facebook. When I asked what was doing online instead, he quickly replied “Twitter! More engagement, realtime discussions, feedbacks. Facebook is becoming (for me) a stream of useless stuff”. It struck me as an interesting comment because [...]

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Why Use Twitter.com?

By Mark Evans | Published: July 28, 2010

Over the past few days, I’ve been using Twitter.com to post updates from someone else’s computer. Every time, I used Twiter.com, the first thing that pops into my head is “Why would anyone ever use Twitter.com”? While there are a few useful features such as trending topic and the ability to find people/companies, Twitter.com is [...]

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