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¿Qué significa realmente tener muchísimos seguidores en Twitter? | Bitelia
Esta mañana, Mariano Amartino comentó en Denken Über un interesante informe llamado Measuring User Influence in Twitter: The Million Follower Fallacy , en el cual se toca un tema tan candente para muchos como lo es la cantidad de seguidores en Twitter y la relevancia (o no) que ellos nos dan . Analizando una cantidad impresionante de cuentas de Twitter y más de un billón de tweets , el informe nos provee no solo de información profunda sobre las relaciones en la red social, sino que da luz sobre los elementos más importantes a la hora de definir qué tan influyente es un usuario: Seguidores, Menciones y Retweets . Esto me resulta interesante porque muchos usuarios consideran que el número de seguidores es sinónimo de popularidad o relevancia. Esto, si bien a veces puede ser así, no es de ninguna forma una garantía .Google Reader permite ahora escribir en Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, etc. en Blog de Uptodown.com
The Fun Theory
The winning idea of the fun theory award, submitted by Kevin Richardson, USA. Can we get more people to obey the speed limit by making it fun to do? This was the question Kevin’s idea answered and it was so good that Volkswagen, together with The Swedish National Society for Road Safety, actually made this innovative idea a reality in Stockholm, Sweden.The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Wednesday January 16 2008 The US intelligence community's enthusiasm for hi-tech innovation after 9/11 and the creation of In-Q-Tel, its venture capital fund, in 1999 were anachronistically linked in the article below. Since 9/11 happened in 2001 it could not have led to the setting up of In-Q-Tel two years earlier.
With friends like these ... Tom Hodgkinson on the politics of the people behind Facebook | Technology | The Guardian
A number of people have pointed out to me that it is actually possible to not select your gender on Facebook (something I was unaware of I must admit). So, I re-ran the numbers and checked specifically for ‘male’ and ‘female’ (not just the difference between male and the total, which I’d wrongly assumed were female!). The stats are in the picture below.

