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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]
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Ben Robinson
Ben is a 10+ year veteran of the Mobile industry – starting his career when SMS was a still a relatively new concept for most people (!), he has now consulted on everything from bleeding-edge Mobile content, to the next-gen accessories you might view it on. As a result he has a broad and deep knowledge in numerous areas of Mobile – from network operators to device vendors, to infrastructure and middleware vendors (not to mention content delivery) – and has worked for companies in all of these areas! He is based in the UK, a hotbed of activity for mobile, and recently became a father for the second time – as oppose to in his younger years when he was happy spend time tweaking all manner of mobile devices to 'nth' degree, he now looks for services and hardware that provide the most efficient, compact, and reliable improvements to his already manic life! It’s his opinion that Mobile solutions should be there to help to make your life better – if a particular solution (be it service or device) isn’t doing this, he believes you need to ask the very important question of why you continue to use it... His focus at IntoMobile is mainly on Mobile content, services, and infrastructure, particularly as regards the UK market – and with the occasional look at devices. Additionally, using his extensive experience in the industry, he will provide commentary on the industry at large, with regular (and hopefully thought-provoking) articles.
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