Ileane at Basic Blog Tips gave us the heads up about coverage of a Yahoo! Research / Cornell University Twitter Study on the Lexington Examiner.
Freelance Writer Donna Anderson (@SheWritesALot) provided the best write-up on that Twitter Influencer Study I’ve seen to date. (I searched deep into the results looking for any others worth reading and came up empty.)
She was the only writer to specifically mention the bloggers covered in the study including many of our closest collaborators including (in the order they were mentioned in the article):
- @Ileane ~ Blogging Tips
- @virtuosoblogger ~ Blogging Resources
- @dragonblogger ~ Tech Blogger (Requested not to be “branded a CommentLuv blog” in the comments of this post on 11/18/11)
- @BlazingMinds ~ Blogging Tips, Music and Film Reviews, Twitter Tips
- @TycoonBlogger ~ Small Business Social Media blog
- @wchingya ~ Social Media blog
- @extremejohn ~ Small Business Blogging and Social Media Advice
- @GrowMap – that’s us
- @Kikolani ~ Social Media Tips
- @Element 321 ~ New Media News
- @seosmarty ~ My Blog Guest Community
- @bbrian017 – Blog Engage Community
Of the 32 bloggers mentioned, the first 12 above are among our closest collaborators. What makes these special is that they are part of the DoFollow CommentLuv community. The last two are blogging communities many of us frequent.
In the study the researchers called us “elite Twitter users”. What I found most interesting about that study is the researchers characterizing those who RT and spread the content of the “elite Twitter users” as “ordinary” or “regular” Twitter users:
“While the 20,000 members of the Twitter Elite are responsible for generating over 50% of all Tweets, theirs are not necessarily the Tweets that are being consumed. The research indicates that almost half of the Tweets that are received and read are generated by a highly respected group of intermediaries made up of over 500,000 regular Twitter users, not Elites.”
That is not what I would call the “intermediary” Twitter users at all!
The researchers seem to have missed the importance of these up-and-coming influencers who will eventually be among what they called the “elite” Twitter users themselves.
In contrast, “ordinary” Twitter users are primarily or exclusively passive consumers of tweets. They do not actively RT or interact much themselves except maybe to some close friends or family.
The researchers also do not seem to realize why bloggers’ content is different than what the other three groups they studied share on Twitter (celebrities, media and organizations).
Maybe they should have asked Donna. Her conclusions – which include some excellent Twitter Strategies to be implemented – are what my British snooker playing friends would call “spot on”.
I encourage everyone to read what she had to say about What Gets Retweeted.
If you want to take your improve what you do on Twitter
check out our Twitter Best Practices.If you want to collaborate with other bloggers, see the list of blogging
collaborators in our Small Business Advice post about BizSugar.
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Twitter: dragonblogger
November 18, 2011 at 7:53 am
I agree, much like most of the advertising you do on blogs isn’t consumed by other bloggers but by general readers. Also one point of clarification is that I am still a DoFollow blog, but I don’t use CommentLuv on my blog anymore. I don’t dislike the plugin, I am just still experimenting with Livefyre and enjoying it at the moment. I just don’t want to be branded a CommentLuv blog when I haven’t been for about 45+ days now. (Keep the DoFollow though).
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Twitter: GrowMap
November 18, 2011 at 11:21 am
Hi Justin,
I know you are testing Livefyre and I also know that their community and CommentLuv will become more and more separate over time. When I wrote this post you were part of the DoFollow CommentLuv community.
I will be updating all my lists after a few weeks to give the new CommentLuv Premium users a chance to sort out how they’re going to configure them and will edit you off any references to CommentLuv at that time.
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Twitter: cmygoodies
November 18, 2011 at 2:12 pm
I’m curious Justin what you’ve been liking about Livefyre? I don’t know much about it other than my personal opinion is that I don’t want to have to sign up for something to leave a comment – I would think that plugin would discourage comments (both good and bad).
Sorry Gail to hijack the comments with an off topic question.
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Twitter: GrowMap
November 20, 2011 at 11:06 pm
Hi Chris,
That’s fine. I encourage discussions of all kinds and Justin did open the door to discussing Livefyre. I personally would never allow a third party commenting system to take over my comments in my blog and I especially dislike Livefyre because their system censored links related to the occupy movement that I tried to share from the comments in blogs using their system.
In addition, Livefyre only gives links to other Livefyre bloggers even though Livefyre bloggers are given links in CommentLuv blog. I consider that unfair and predatory behavior intentionally designed by Livefyre.
Many bloggers including me almost never comment in blogs using third party commenting systems because they waste our precious time because the log-in processes often do not work so we write a comment and then can not get it to post.
I will be editing all my lists after any bloggers who are upgrading to CommentLuv Premium have had time to configure for dofollow or nofollow to prioritize blogs by the choices they make. I explain those choices in the post I’ll put in CommentLuv in this reply.
I am going to miss Justin; however, he has clearly stated he does not wish to be categorized as a CommentLuv blogger so I will honor his request to be removed from any list I maintain that mentions CommentLuv.
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Twitter: cmygoodies
November 21, 2011 at 6:10 pm
Thanks Gail, that’s how I feel about any kind of system that forces you to log in to leave a comment. I was also disappointed to see that Justin had made the switch as I was just starting to interact more with his blog (Justin if you stop by chock up one more vote for switching back to Commentluv
)
By the way Gail I don’t know that I am on any of your Commentluv lists I’ve been using it for a few years now and took the plunge to premium. I have a few blogs that are dofollow for both after 5 comments. This blog linked here as well as Natural Health Goodies and a camping gear review blog that I am just starting called Camping Crossroads. If you feel them worthy I’d be honored to make your lists.
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Twitter: GrowMap
November 22, 2011 at 4:03 am
Hi Chris,
I wouldn’t have known your blogs were DoFollow because the odds of my finding any comments left by people who already had five comments aren’t very good unless you already have a strong commenting community where many already have dofollow comments visible in your posts.
You’ve reminded me that I am going to have to note those kinds of details when I update my lists. There isn’t any easy way to know of to tell which blogs go dofollow after how many comments without the blogger telling me.
I added you to my Twitter CommentLuv list and I do cross-reference the various lists when I’m updating to remind myself who else I need to add. You might leave a comment in any of my CommentLuv Premium posts just to make sure I remember to add you.
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Twitter: matthewacoleman
November 4, 2011 at 2:01 am
good to know about Twitter.also the list of bloggers,I will check it out
Even though their research was not that succesful, it is still pretty cool that the top 10 list consists of a group of bloggers who collaborate together.
That shows that what you guys are doing is working well
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November 7, 2011 at 11:34 pm
i agree.it’s a cool list of bloggers…its like a big family what helps each other,.
This is just broken down unnecessarily. There is a natural distribution that exists in the spread of any trend or idea. The relative power of the individuals involved in the spread are roughly the same regardless of the medium. I say just learn the basic concepts and forget about finding new labels for everything underneath the umbrella.
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Sounds like the responsiveness of Twittering has continued to satisfy the traffic generated because the quality correspondences are pulling their weight. Experiences throughout the last few decades of technological boons indicate that as the introductions of a productions excellence and craftsmanship stabilize, they can shape the waves of trends into cushions of continuity. Twitter has done just that. Keeps them coming back for more. Bravo.
Twitter: n/a
June 29, 2011 at 6:15 am
I am not so into the’elite’ term used by the author..its such a elitists term..hence elite..lol..but still..to put them on that status can be somewhat a turn-off.
Hootsuite was a mind boggling discovery for me, the tweetimonials is also something new I learned and now after reading this post it looks like my second journey with twitter is going to be result oriented.
I would be curious to see what results would be produced were researchers to examine a larger group of Twitter users.Did you write it? Am I missing it somewhere? Every page of your blog is so helpful and I just know that article is (or will be) awesome, too.
Twitter: GrowMap
May 3, 2011 at 1:04 pm
Hello,
No, neither I nor the reporter whose article I talk about in this post were involved in doing this research or writing the conclusions of the study. There is a link to the entire report in this post so you can read it for yourself.
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