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Brian Solis is a principal at new media agency FutureWorks. You can connect with him on Twitter or Facebook. In 2009, influence emerged as a source of filtering and focus, especially when Twitter released its new “lists” feature to empower users to organize and follow custom streams by topic, personality, and themes. Klout, which analyzes [...]

Bored at work whilst waiting for the gap between Christmas and New Year’s to be bridged? Well, here’s a fun little tool to tide you over: FirstFollower.com. This program — designed by Russian developer Victor Babichev — allows users to see who their first follower on Twitter was, as well as those of other users. [...]

Noa Gafni is a social media consultant with a focus on women and Gen Y. She authors Webutantes, a blog about Internet trends impacting women. 2009 was the year of the social media mom. So-called “mommy bloggers” broke away from their niche audiences and went mainstream, and social marketers took notice. Here are some highlights [...]

It’s an odd little ecosystem in which a Scottish fellow most people haven’t heard of ranks above the President of the United States, celebrities worth gazillions of dollars, and, well, everybody.  But that’s the state of things on Twitter, according to a new report from INQ that named Mashable’s CEO, Pete Cashmore, the "top international [...]

How do you measure influence on Twitter? While follower count is perhaps the most obvious metric, other activities, like the numbers of times you’re retweeted, provide a bit more insight. Along those lines INQ Mobile has just released their 2009 Twitter influence study, determining the most influential Twitter users in both the UK and the [...]


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