Comments on: Misleading Indicators – Followers & Friends

By: Dear Google: FriendFeed Subscribers Blog Readers

Dear Google: FriendFeed Subscribers Blog Readers — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 18:59:20 +0000

[...] web, thousands of instant Social Media rockstars were born. Or so it seemed. But this is truly misleading. Lately, the Feedburner counts have been fluctuating widely as Friendfeed stats come and go, like [...]

By: Gaming the Twitter System - Why Follower Counts Don't Matter | Impact Interactions

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:47:48 +0000

[...] December of 2009, I wrote about Misleading Indicators – Followers and Friends after seeing a tweet from Jeremiah Owyang of Altimeter Group. In that post, I explained why [...]

By: MRowland

MRowland — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:01:24 +0000

Now we’re doing an experiment using the available tools out there and the advice from “Twitter Experts” on how to game the system. We’ll be publishing the results on our blog. Our hypothesis is that the new followers are not as valuable as those who find you organically through your content.

By: Adrienne

Adrienne — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 15:36:25 +0000

Good points about Twitter. People underestimate the power of bots on Twitter as well.