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<header> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="twitter-authority-number-of-followers-vs-retweets.html"
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rel="bookmark" title="Permalink to Twitter Authority? Number of Followers vs. ReTweets">Twitter Authority? Number of Followers vs. ReTweets</a></h1> </header>
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<abbr class="published" title="2008-12-30T00:51:00">
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Tue 30 December 2008
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<p><a class="reference external" href="http://twitter.com">Twitter</a> is by far the market leader of the
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so-called "micro-blogging" scene. Is this a bad thing? A number
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people think that
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<a class="reference external" href="http://www.neuro-vision.us/ad/Article/How-Twitter-is-Destroying-Your-Mind/4970">Twitter is destroying us</a>.
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Others seem to find it to be a wonderful
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<a class="reference external" href="http://www.ehow.com/how_2263342_market-business-twitter.html">marketplace</a>
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and even a source for
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<a class="reference external" href="http://www.whatsyourtweetworth.com/">revenue</a>, if allowed. In
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order for any of these things to come to realization though,
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Twitter must make some serious decisions. And fast. The initial
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idea is to value a twitterer's rank based upon the number of
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followers a user has. This seems like a good, strong idea for a
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while, but when you look a little deeper under the skin, it's
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apparent that this is not a good system. Most users send an update
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every so often about themselves, their lives, and their homes. What
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worth is that? Yes, a message would be delivered to a larger number
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of people, but the relevancy of the people being reached would be
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very low. However, if one was to write a quality tweet that is
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<a class="reference external" href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/12/29/its-not-how-many-followers-you-have-that-counts-its-how-many-times-you-get-retweeted/">re-tweeted over and over again</a>,
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that user will reach an even larger group of people, either
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directly or in-directly, and the relevancy of the users reached
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would be much, much greater. The more people who reTweet what you
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have to say not only reach more users than meaningless-tweeters,
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but the people who would take the time to listen to what you have
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to say would be immensely more common. More relevant readers mean
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more clicks, which mean more visits to linked sites, which means
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more revenue for a company and even more potential customers. What
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