Comments on: Top Ten Twitter List Contains Many Top Bloggers

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hp laptop adapters — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:59:27 +0000

I like TwiTip and I am a frequent user of the site.

By: Bill Ives

Bill Ives — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 02:57:21 +0000

Roger, Mark and Paula – Thanks for your comments. Roger you provide another interesting twiiter blog. No that is not an oxymoron. A twitter blog is when you have more than 140 characters to offer about twitter. Perhaps we should refer to to microblogging and macroblogging. I see twitter as simply taking on one role of blogs – breaking news and not the other – more complex discussion. Mark – thanks for the list which inspired my post. Paula – nice term the personal apocalyse. It now comes in two flavors – micro and macro. Bill

By: Paula Thornton

Paula Thornton — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 00:10:26 +0000

Bill: My apologies for failing to note the most significant message of your piece: 2.0 enables the Personal Apocalypse. I’d even suggest that the advent of the Personal Apocalypse eclipses any/all purpose for KM (yet another nail in the KM coffin). Why? Personal economics. One affords the individual control over the economic factors, the other does not.

By: Paula Thornton

Paula Thornton — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 00:05:36 +0000

Nice numeric artifacts from Roger — placeholders for a general purpose. While he offered his own caveats, I have a couple more to add:
The top 100 is not a relevant representation of Twitter use
Twitter and blogs are both channels for anyone expressing their ‘voice’ — the correlation between the two should be expected to be high.

By: mark_hayward

mark_hayward — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:50:22 +0000

Hi Bill – how are you? Thanks for your insight! Funny, when I wrote the post I had NO intention of creating controversy all. In fact, I go (way) out of my way to avoid conflict.

Man was I surprised when I checked the comments after being away from the internet for a few days…

Hope you have a terrific week.
MH

By: Roger

Roger — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:32:58 +0000

Bill, thanks for this interesting insight.

My own data confirm your observations. I conducted a survey of the top 100 Twitterers (Tweeple) in April this year and found that about two thirds were bloggers, while a quarter are corporate blogs.

You can find the full breakdown on my Web site.

http://www.twitterthoughts.com/social-media-news-analyses/2008/5/20/bloggers-dominate-twitter.html

It’s important to note that the measure of number of followers is not the only indication of the influence or impact of that Twitterer.