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You don't care about catching everything, fair enough. But do you care equally about everyone you follow? I contend that you don't. If you sample randomly you b
by akkartik 17y ago
You don't care about catching everything, fair enough. But do you care equally about everyone you follow? I contend that you don't. If you sample randomly you bias for those who post often rather than those you care more about.
- jamesbritt 17y ago"But do you care equally about everyone you follow? " Of course not. That's not how use Twitter "If you sample randomly you bias for those who post often rather than those you care more about." If a random sample routinely has someone posting items of little to no value to me, I follow. So it works out. The people I really care about I connect with in other ways: phone, E-mail, blogs, conferences and local meetings, and so on. Twitter is but one of many ways I get my daily data bath. That I miss this or that is not a big deal. Besides, the important stuff tends to get repeated so it usually finds me anyways.