Trst.me (from Infochimps ) relies on calculating user reputation instead of just seeing how many followers they have as a deciding factor.  The first thing I noticed about how they compile the information is that they have been compiling Twitter information since 2008 using the API.  This gives them a good base to begin measurement. You enter a username into the single box on the page to have it compute a score ranking of 1-10.  Read More →

Web-based doctor appointment-setting service ZocDoc has noticed an amazing increase of 6250% in Swine Flu-related appointments over flu-related appointments last year (the numbers have been normalized against time for the increased volume). There has been an almost 14x increase in swine flu activity since September. Because of the massively increased demand, ZocDoc recently added “Swine Flu Shot” as a reason for the visit that patients... 

Hitwise has published over the last days three posts with interesting information on traffic to the Twitter website. They analysed traffic to twitter.com in three countries : UK, USA and Australia. Let’s start with the UK .  Read More →

Twinfluence was one of the first services offering metrics to quantify the influence of a Twitter user. TwitterFriends goes a step further, by offering more metrics and additional information for individual Twitter users. This is the list of metrics calculated by TwitterFriends  Read More →

There is recently a lot of discussion going on concerning the authority of Twitter users : Michael Arrington , Robert Scoble , Loic Le Meur . Some bloggers propose that the number of followers is a good measure of the authority of a Twitter user. Others argue that other elements should be taken into account, e.g.  Read More →

Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia. In the series of states of the Twitosphere on this blog, I did not yet publish a state of the Twitosphere for a Southeast Asian country. The first question in such an analysis is the number of Twitter users in Malaysia  Read More →

A while ago a commenter on this blog asked if I could also analyze the twitosphere in his country, Costa Rica.  Read More →