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An Awesomer Tweet Button: Tracks your site's most influential users

wil.lt

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Re: An Awesomer Tweet Button: Tracks your site's most influential users

#31
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?

Re: An Awesomer Tweet Button: Tracks your site's most influential users

#32
post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He didn't have a tweet button before www.wil.lt? We just copied his tweet. We have no idea who he is.

Oh, didn't think about that. Just assumed people who would use this already use a tweet button and are interested in more statistical information regarding the people that tweet about their page.

I was thinking the same thing as you, makes sense now.

Re: An Awesomer Tweet Button: Tracks your site's most influential users

#33
post #31

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?

a) 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.

Re: An Awesomer Tweet Button: Tracks your site's most influential users

#34
post #31

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?

Actually, 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.

Re: An Awesomer Tweet Button: Tracks your site's most influential users

#39

Isn't this the same as http://totally.awe.sm/ ?

Not that we can tell. At a minimum, this is free and super simple to use. We asked around for a solution, and no one we knew had a good answer. This does one thing really well
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