An application called MrTweet caught my attention over the weekend, mostly due to a discussion on influence initiated by its creator, Steve Ming Yeow Ng. Check out the discussion at the MrTweet blog.
Two important points from the discussion:
1. Influence is in the eye of the audience.
2. No such thing as a universal grade for influence.
These points resonate with Josh Greenbaum’s comments on influence and popularity, as well as the mantra shared by Duncan Brown, Nick Hayes, me and the rest of the crew at Influencer50.
As for MrTweet: I’m on the record as a died-in-the-wool skeptic on these kinds of applications. None have given me worthwhile recommendations or insights to date. Now MrTweet is in the hot seat. I’ve followed MrTweet and will share my thoughts once it returns something. As with so many of these social network applications, MrTweet puts an awfully big stake in the ground:
“I’ll suggest to you which influencers and followers you should check out.”
OK, MrTweet. Pimp my twitterverse.Republished from my Influencer50 blog, Sway.
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December 10th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Mr. Tweet is the modern day equivalent of chain mail. Follow Mr. Tweet and you will get hundreds of messages to “follow” the people on top of the pyramid. It cannot scale.
Richard Stiennon
IT-Harvest
December 15th, 2008 at 9:12 am
Who do you care about? In the realm of AR we care about customers, partners, investors and press - oh and internal executives of course. I categorize industry analysts as hybrids of partners and press, though analysts often see themselves as proxies for customers.
Regardless, we make the assumption with Mr. Tweet, and Twitter for that matter, that we who talk amongst ourselves are ‘influencers.’ Ha! Are customers following us? When Mr. Tweet starts serving up customer names, or ‘influencers’ (hate that term) that are clearly talking to customers and investors, then we should take notice. If Mr. Tweet serves up ourselves, who cares?
Nothing against Mr. Tweet mind you, the possibilities are interesting. But for AR? The rules of sarcastic Barney apply: I influence you, you influence me, we are a happy influencing family. Ask your head of Sales or Investor Relations if she/he gives a Tweet.
January 12th, 2009 at 8:57 am
Stiennon not sure what your point is re chain mail - did you mean chain letters? still not sure what your point is.
MrTweet-clearly not for everybody but I have had some followers on Twitter say they found me there, and appreciate what I do. So i like MrTweet.