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Very true. Followers is a very weak approximation. It's almost like utilizing just pagerank on a search engine. In many ways measuring influence is analogous
by mathattack 13y ago
Very true. Followers is a very weak approximation. It's almost like utilizing just pagerank on a search engine. In many ways measuring influence is analogous to creating a search engine. You constantly have to search out and avoid the noise.
- ptwobrussell 13y agoThat seems a very apt analogy. The work in this post was fairly cursory since my primary goal was to "teach people how to be dangerous" as opposed to "prove" anything definitively, but once you start really working with the data, it quickly becomes so apparent that you could spend the rest of your career just in this "little" microcosm of the web.
- jyeee 13y ago+1 mathattack -- in terms of understanding, I couldn't agree more about just measuring followers. It's like saying you understand a person by the volume of mail they send/receive without looking at what's in the envelope. Really big fan of @SocialWebMining's work and I hope to see some articles about what's being said in tweets, and I think that we'd both like that a lot...