Filed under: Social Software, Microblogging
Happy birthday, Twitter! Four years ago, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey sent out the very first tweet: "just setting up my twttr." Fast forward to today, when even having a million followers doesn't make you a bigshot anymore. We'll tell you all about that, as well as some new apps and changes to the Twitter API, in this edition of Twitter Tuesday.
Here we go!
ReadWriteWeb just reported on a study that proves having a million followers doesn't necessarily make you influential. Researchers crunched an astounding amount of Twitter data -- almost 2 billion tweets! -- and determined that only around 6 million of the 80 million accounts they checked were active. So, you may have a million followers, but only a small percentage of those will listen to what you say, and even fewer will retweet and mention you.
Speaking of "influence," it's going to start affecting Twitter search results, which are about to get more relevant or turn into a useless popularity contest, depending on your point of view. Currently the Twitter API includes one way of sorting tweets: by most recent. A new way of sorting -- by "most popular" -- will bring results from more popular (and ostensibly more relevant) users to the top. This might reduce the amount of spam you see in your search results, especially for trending topics, but it could also make real-time results less interesting. We'll have to wait and see.
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