Truthy. This static communication network shows how the meme is transmitted from user to user, by means of retweets (forwards) and mentions (direct messages). Legend User Retweet @Mention Click on a region to zoom in. Bundle Tweets Loading... Timeline Resolution in hours Click on a row to see more details about a user. These are network statistics computed by Klatsch , an open-source framework for exploring and analyzing feeds of social media data. Network Number of Tweets Total Users Total Edges Mean Degree Mean Strength Mean Edge Weight Largest Component Size Users Tweets from Top Broadcaster Most Retweeted User None User with Most Tweets GoRogueRunSarah Tweets per User Users in Largest Diffusion Network Unique Injections of Meme These movies show how Twitter networks evolve over time.
Points represent users or memes, and lines represent communication (retweet, mention, or occurrence in the same tweet). Browse New Most recent Click on a circle to see more details about a user Is the interactive network slow? Download .gexf. How long has Twitter got? Twitter, launched in 2006, has become the web's hottest property. With celebrity endorsement from the likes of Oprah, Lindsay Lohan and Stephen Fry, it now has 75 million very active users. But haven't we seen this all before? The here today, gone tomorrow fickleness of the web's every shifting demographic has embraced, chewed up and spat out a legion of other services, from ICQ to MySpace.
Once favoured toys, they're now forgotten and dusty, languishing at the back of the cupboard. If we were to assume the same trajectory for Twitter, that would give it a projected lifespan of three, perhaps four more years. On the other hand, it could be one of the lucky ones - a Google, an Amazon or an eBay. It could a transformative service that changes the way we do things. 11 Essential Resources You May Have Missed. We know you're busy. Even with every social media, web, and RSS tool at your disposal, you can occasionally miss out on some of the week's most insightful content.
Never fear. We've taken a moment to round up the best Mashable resources from this past week and present them here for your weekend enjoyment. From in-depth how-tos, to app lists, to valuable business guides, browse below for a veritable smorgasbord of value you may have passed over. Social Media The Ultimate March Madness Social Media GuideEverything you need to keep up with "The Big Dance" on the social web is in here. For more social media news and resources, you can follow Mashable's social media channel on Twitter and become a fan on Facebook.
Mobile 9 Killer Tips for Location-Based MarketingIf your business is thinking about jumping into the location game, now is the time to do it. For more mobile news and resources, you can follow Mashable's mobile channel on Twitter and become a fan on Facebook. Business. The Million Follower Fallacy: Audience Size Doesn't Prove Influe. A group of researchers have proven something we already expected to be the case: your Twitter follower count is somewhat of a meaningless metric when it comes to determining influence.
To reach this conclusion, the researchers examined the Twitter accounts of over 54 million active users, out of some 80 million accounts crawled by their servers. They then went on to measure various statistics about these accounts, including audience size, retweet influence and mention influence. The conclusion? Those with the largest number of followers may be "popular" Twitterers, but that's not necessarily related to their influence. High follower counts don't always mean someone is being retweeted or mentioned in any meaningful ways. The findings from this research project have been published in an research paper available here on the project's homepage along links to the authors' profiles: Meeyoung Cha, Hamed Haddadi, Fabricio Benevenuto, Krishna P.
How the Data Was Analyzed. Mexico Led Latin American Facebook Growth in February, but Regio. It has been a few months since we singled out Latin America to show how the region is growing. Since late last year, growth has slowed down in many of the region’s countries, despite their relatively low market penetrations — the opposite of what’s happening in the rest of the world. The lone standout is Mexico, which sent almost a million new monthly active users to Facebook in February. As you can see below, Mexico is also the only country among the region’s fastest growers to post a growth rate above 10 percent. What’s going on south of the border? Brazil, for instance, Latin America’s largest country by population, should be jetting ahead of the pack.
Instead, the country has only given Facebook half as many new users as it did last November, a piddling 283,680 people. Growth has similarly declined for the other countries you see below, though they have higher market penetrations than Brazil. Still, there are exceptions. Here’s are the top ten growers in the region. Josh Sternberg: The Three Laws of Social Media. Social media. Two average-sized words that carry a tremendous amount of meaning. However, we have yet to create a working operational definition for social media.
Some define it as a concept -- the democratization of the spreading of information. To others, it's a product -- Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. As you can see, there are several different ways of defining social media, but throughout each definition -- just like other sciences -- there is an undercurrent of non-negotiable laws governing how information is spread using social media. The correlation between the hard (physical) and soft (social) sciences that exists can be found in the structure, the building blocks, of each. These laws can help us understand why social media a) is the logical next step in the evolution of media and b) has changed the way we send and receive information. The three laws of social media:1. 2. Our era is called the "Information Age" for a reason. 3.
Social Thermodynamics? Study: 52 Percent Of Bloggers Consider Themselves Journalists. According to a new study released by PR Week and PR Newswire, 52% percent of bloggers surveyed consider themselves journalists. This is an increase from 2009’s study, when just one in three had the same opinion. However, despite this, only 20% of bloggers obtain the majority of their income from their blogs; which is an 4% increase from 2009. A few other stats caught our attention as well. When it comes to using blogs and social networks, like Twitter or Facebook, for research, 91% of bloggers and 68% of online reporters “always” or “sometimes” use blogs for research. But only 35% of newspaper and 38% of print magazine journalists surveyed use blogs or social networks for research purposes The stats are even more interesting when it comes to using Twitter, which is often a place for breaking news and consumer trends, alone for research. 64% of bloggers and 36% of online reporters said they use Twitter as a research tool for stories.
Photo Credit/Flickr/MikeLicht. La invasión de los "bárbaros digitales" Este 16 de marzo, en el marco de los "Debates Abiertos de Fundación Telefónica", se ha desarrollado la conferencia " Resintonizando la educación" a cargo de Alejandro Piscitelli. A este etnógrafo de la educación virtual le han acompañado Javier Nadal, Dolors Reig y José Luis Castillo. Además de sus trabajos, entre libros y artículos, Alejandro se encarga de desentrañar aquello que hacen y dicen hacer los estudiantes en las redes sociales, específicamente en Facebook, del que publicará un libro… que ya esperamos.
En esta conferencia, sustancialmente, hace una reflexión educativa desde las necesidades, hábitos y perspectivas de los nativos digitales. El video de su intervención está disponible en la web y quiero aquí resumir algunos puntos destacables de la presentación e invitarles a analizar su contenido. Aquí una hipérbole digital -usada por Alejandro- que también lleva al análisis de la situación. How useful is strategic planning for e-learning? « Tony Bates. How PR Pros Are Using Social Media for Real Results. The Real Results series is supported by Gist, an online service that helps you build stronger relationships. By connecting your inbox to the web, you get business-critical information about key people and companies.
See how it works here. PR professionals use social media every single day to get the word out about clients, to communicate with customers and to respond to questions or problems. Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and other social sites have quickly become important tools in a PR professional's overall toolkit. As one PR professional, Jeremy Pepper, told us, "There are so many uses — conversational marketing, reaching influencers — that PR is able to participate in conversations and answer questions, be a support system for clients and companies, as well as empowering customers and power users to be a de facto resource for your company, a champion for your products. " The Role of Social Media in Business-to-Business PR Social Media Drives Authenticity Claire McCaskill, the junior U.S. Los medios que se resisten al cambio suelen hacerlo por ignoranc. Con motivo de mi inminente viaje a El Salvador para impartir el Seminario de Comunicación Corporativa 2.0, me entrevista Carmen Molina Tamacas, editora de elsalvador.com, sobre los nuevos escenarios de la comunicación pública.
La interactividad y la retroalimentación -posibilitadas por la web 2.0- son pilares fundamentales de los procesos periodísticos contemporáneos. ¿Por qué las redes sociales juegan un rol fundamental en cómo el mundo comparte ahora la información? ¿Es esta la verdadera revolución informativa causada por Internet? La red internet y el software social son las herramientas con las que la gente corriente ha conseguido, por primera vez en la historia, tener una voz pública de alcance universal sin la mediación de editores profesionales. En este marco, los medios tradicionales van perdiendo gradualmente sus funciones clásicas de guardabarreras y de establecimiento de la agenda, así como su carácter de plaza pública. Tenemos que ayudar a los medios a cambiar. Online presence of hate, terrorist groups up 20% Hate groups have always been a presence on the Internet, but their presence is growing quicker lately thanks to social networking sites.
According to a report from the Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC), groups that promote violence, terrorism, homophobia, antisemitism, and other forms of intolerance grew by 20 percent in the last year alone. The report is part of the Center's annual look at the spread of hate groups online, which noted that there are now more than 11,500 social networks, websites, forums, and blogs that focus on spreading intolerance, recruiting new members, and instructing people on how to hurt others. "The numbers are probably, at the end of the day, multiples of that," the SWC's associate dean Abraham Cooper said in a news conference Monday.
"That should be taken as a low ball figure. " The biggest growth is "where [it] is for everyone: in social networks," Cooper said. Op-Ed Contributor - Ending the Internets Trench Warfare - NYTim.