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So... what's the value in knowing this? For a lot people, most if not all of their "verified twitter followers" also follow 10s of 1000s of others. I am not spe

So... what's the value in knowing this? For a lot people, most if not all of their "verified twitter followers" also follow 10s of 1000s of others. I am not special. What's the value of being followed by a "verified" user anyway? I know I'm pretty naive and uneducated about the whole "social networking" marketing/advertising industry. P.S. On this page, the CSS attribute "user-select: none;" is really annoying.

mittermayr 12y ago
good questions. I guess a lot of it depends on the goals a person might have (get into certain industries, build a reputation by providing specific accounts with helpful responses, etc.) -- and to a great extend (for most of us) it's just a nice to have bit of information that is not directly actionable. this is also why I tried to implement a free 'see up to 5 verified followers' type of thing, because that's where most people (me at least) typically are. anything higher than that could mean you might already have an idea of what that's worth to you and how you can act upon that information. the user-select is something I put in last-minute because there was something sort of annoying for some reason when I tried it on a phone, but couldn't figure it out, so I went noob. sorry about that, will get fixed.
petercooper 12y ago
It's not perfect, but looking at only 'verified' users cuts through about 95% of the chaff (although you do lose many excellent non-verified people, naturally). But if you discover you're followed by a handful of your favorite famous programmers, maybe a VC or two, things like that.. it could be useful to know you might be able to take advantage (in a nice way) of those connections some day.
- mittermayr 12y ago
  and, what peter said, exactly. and especially keep in mind: I didn't mean to push this out to you guys as users necessarly, initially was thinking of getting some tech/implementation feedback rather than market testing this. the incentive for creating this little product was mostly kindled by many larger accounts I host at fruji.com who asked me to get them the data faster and that's all they'd need for now, just a list of their verified accounts (as a means of pre-selecting). i personally also fully agree that there are many, many folks out there without a verified account who provide tremendous value. this really is just one niche approach. one page in a large report basically.

mittermayr 12y ago

good questions. I guess a lot of it depends on the goals a person might have (get into certain industries, build a reputation by providing specific accounts with helpful responses, etc.) -- and to a great extend (for most of us) it's just a nice to have bit of information that is not directly actionable. this is also why I tried to implement a free 'see up to 5 verified followers' type of thing, because that's where most people (me at least) typically are. anything higher than that could mean you might already have an idea of what that's worth to you and how you can act upon that information. the user-select is something I put in last-minute because there was something sort of annoying for some reason when I tried it on a phone, but couldn't figure it out, so I went noob. sorry about that, will get fixed.

petercooper 12y ago

It's not perfect, but looking at only 'verified' users cuts through about 95% of the chaff (although you do lose many excellent non-verified people, naturally). But if you discover you're followed by a handful of your favorite famous programmers, maybe a VC or two, things like that.. it could be useful to know you might be able to take advantage (in a nice way) of those connections some day.

mittermayr 12y ago
and, what peter said, exactly. and especially keep in mind: I didn't mean to push this out to you guys as users necessarly, initially was thinking of getting some tech/implementation feedback rather than market testing this. the incentive for creating this little product was mostly kindled by many larger accounts I host at fruji.com who asked me to get them the data faster and that's all they'd need for now, just a list of their verified accounts (as a means of pre-selecting). i personally also fully agree that there are many, many folks out there without a verified account who provide tremendous value. this really is just one niche approach. one page in a large report basically.