I just read a great piece on something called ‘Twitter’s Golden Ratio’, on TechCrunch. It’s a simple enough concept, which revolves around assessing whether somebody is worth following or not.
In the emails you receive when somebody decides to follow you, you get three stats: how many followers that person has, how much they have tweeted, and how many people they are following. The Golden Ratio says that if they follow more people than are following them, then they probably are not worth following, since they aren’t likely to be that interesting. Conversely, if many more people follow them than they follow themselves, they might well be worthy of following.
Probably most people might apply this sort of concept to assessing whether to follow someone anyway, either consciously or subconsciously – but it’s the first time I’ve seen it written down explicitly. Of course, Twitter is extending on to the mobile platform more and more these days, with the plethora of clients, and also native SMS support offered by Operators – so are we doing our assessing on the move?!
We’d like to hear what indices you use to decide whether to follow someone, but just as importantly, whether you do your Twitter Admin on the move (or is it just the Tweeting you do on the move?!). Leave us a comment and let us know!
If you’d like to check out the article on the Golden Ratio from TechCrunch, then click here.
[Original story via: TechCrunch]