reflections and gems

Twitter Lists are nothing new by design, but the promotion of them is going to.

What I have already seen to get more twitter followers

twitter competitions to follow someone

Drew Carey’s bid for $1,000,000

Dwight Howard Flies one Millionth Twitter Follower to Orlando Magic Game

followfriday

follow back lists

As excited as it is getting more followers on twitter, its really about using your influence to help others.  This is where lists come in.

Lists can be considered from a personal level, a way to filter people you follow. On a larger scale, it allows you to tell everyone who you feel is worthy to be put on a niche list.

I am still experimenting on the idea, but I am beginning to believe a creative way to build brand equity is to encourage people to follow lists you have created.

Why do I say that?

1. The perception of a user being listed is worth more than a follower
2. The individuals on the list feel appreciated that you have considered them to be on such a list
3. If you encourage your followers to “follow” that list, the individuals will see that this is not just a random listed titled “friends”

The graph below showcases the number of followers for the top 140 lists according to Listorious.

Some observations

1. The number of followers per list drastically reduces after the top 10.
2. To get into the top 140 lists you only need to have ~339 followers to follow that list.
3. Creating hyper local/niche lists could possibly get you in the top 140 lists.

* The listorious information was of 3/4/10

according to urban dictionary

infoporn - Sexy and visually appealing visualizations of data, often using “Web 2.0” interactivity to suck the viewer in.

print infoporn has meme’d all over the internet from

• state of the internet
• mint.com
• cool inforgraphs blog
• death and taxes
• …etc (WARNING: Please do not click on this site unless you have the entire day to waste)

the internet is starting to grow up;

video is finally coming to a state of consciousness,

companies are recognizing that free is NOT the solution to everything

the hidden potential ($) of your social graph is being unlocked

i feel the time has come for print infoporn to grow up, fall to the wayside and for interactive infoporn to take the helm.  (there i said it ok and yes that took a lot out of me to say that!)

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During this years celebration of Festivus, everyone is going to be complaining about the economy.  Why not add some numbers to substantiate your grievances.

The following video took place at the 2009 Minyanvills Festivus to Benefit Children’s Education.  The short interview is about the “fabricated” jobs numbers and the future of jobs in America.

3 present and future grievances

1.  The current jobs report was a hiccup.

2. During the Internet boom, America created 260k jobs / month.

In 05’ during the peack of the Real Estate boom we created 212k jobs / month.

In 06’ to 07’ at the Commercial Real Estate boom, we created 96 to 150k jobs / month.

3.  Unemployment will stay >15% in 2015, even with 150k new jobs / month with no hiccups in the economy.