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Inferring Tweet Quality from Retweets
- Daishiman 11y agoSecond-order retweets as a measure of retweet quality has been a thing since as far back as 2011.
- HibernianGhost 11y agoit'd be interesting to get more metadata for Nth level retweets as another measure of quality
- aswanson 11y agoThat essentially reduces to PageRank, replacing links with tweets.
- HibernianGhost 11y agoYes it does. But the Nth level metadata is not publicly available today. I'm not even sure its available in the Twitter API.
- userbinator 11y agotweet's quality (percent of readers who will retweet it) That seems a very odd way to define "quality", and the phrase that most comes to mind is "quantity is not quality". Perhaps virality would be a better word for this metric.
- dasil003 11y agoIt doesn't strike me as odd. Retweeting is something you do when you like a tweet for one reason or another. What seems odd is invoking "quantity is not quality" for retweets since that is a second order phenomenon. It would seem more appropriate to apply it to people who tweet a lot, not people who are retweeted a lot.
- jondubois 11y agoIt sounds like a feature Twitter might be interested in - Especially given all the recent talk about users being 'overwhelmed' with too many irrelevant tweets. Having a tweet score based on those formulae could allow twitter to filter out less interesting tweets from users' feeds. It would be a nice optional setting to have for those users who have too many followers.
- mcgin 11y agoI did some similar analysis on gauging the quality of a user from their retweet behaviour [1] [1] http://bit.ly/Pzea7o http://bit.ly/Pzea7o