New Approaches for Analyzing Influence on Twitter
By Alex Leavittwith Evan Burchard, David Fisher, & Sam Gilbert
Using a new methodology based on the content and responses of 12 popular users, we determined measurements of relative influence on Twitter. We examined an ecosystem of 134,654 tweets, 15,866,629 followers, and 899,773 followees, and in response to the 2,143 [...]

A Preview of WEP Report #4
When deciding whether someone is worth following or talking to on Twitter, most of us make a snap judgment based on a user’s follower count, but what does this really tell us?
For our fourth publication, the Web Ecology Project decided to move beyond follower count to find a better way [...]