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Great idea - I just don't understand why this needs a different/proprietary button in its implementation. Surely this is just a case of analyzing twitter users
by dotBen 15y ago
Great idea - I just don't understand why this needs a different/proprietary button in its implementation.
Surely this is just a case of analyzing twitter users who mentions your url (or any url with your domain, even), and then ranking them by Klout (or just follower score)?
(This would then pick up tweets that don't use a button, too.)
Point is, that is a backend process, why should I change my site's buttons?
- fraserharris 15y agoa) The Twitter Search API is really flakey searching for urls. Twitter is shortening tweets with their own shortener, t.co, which is screwing it all up. We thought capturing 100% of tweets was important. b) You can use any button you want. We provide simple iframe implementations for our button and a Twitter tweet button. We also give you code to attach to any js event.
- zabeth24 15y agoActually, we primarily look at just the clickthrough rate on the links to determine someone's influence. Influence is highly categorical. For example, if I tweet about tech things, I'll get many clicks since most of my followers are techies. If I tweet about horses, ... not so many clicks and therefore I have a poorer influence for "horses". Klout and # of followers abstract away these fine-grained details that, IMO, are critically important in determining social influence.