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2765 Words

By Nick Hodge | May 30, 2009

For vari­ous reas­ons, I am on another sab­bat­ical from Twit­ter. This is not my first, and I dare say not my last. Dur­a­tion, unknown. Frankly, I am bor­ing myself and slowly stick­ing my foot in my own mouth. To fill the now empty space, I have spent more time think­ing and writ­ing. So, for instance these are some raw num­bers from the last few days. This is by no means scientific.

Twit­ter

Aver­age Tweets per day: 100
Aver­age size of each tweet: 100
Total Words: 10,000
Estim­ated Per­cent­age valu­able (ie: valu­able con­tent): 10%
Words of Value = 1,000

Blog­ging

Aver­age Tweets per day: 100
Aver­age size of each tweet: 100
Total Words: 2,765
Estim­ated Per­cent­age valu­able (ie: valu­able con­tent): 90%
Words of Value = 2,488

So, the ques­tion remains: are the con­ver­sa­tions on twit­ter worth 2.5 times the pub­lish­ing via blogs?

Topics: blogging, socialmedia, twitter | 2 Comments »

2 Responses to “2765 Words”

  1. Thomas Suters Says:
    May 31st, 2009 at 4:46 pm

    Good onya for going back to blog­ging for a spell. I’m new to Twit­ter and I am find­ing it friendly enough. Though the more you put your­self out into the Twit­ter­sphere, the more your likely to attract the scum­bags (mar­ket­eers). So I’ve had to be care­ful who is fol­low­ing me, plus I’ve gone private.

    Any­way I have come across a guy by the name of Chaun­cey Thorn who knows a lot of stuff about API calls in Social Net­work sites (but in a bad way).

    I did a search on my name in Google and noticed one list­ing under Con­gressSpace­Book (obvi­ously a fake site because of its sketchy graph­ics) and it shows a list of ALL my tweets in the last few days, plus oth­ers that I follow.

    If you enter url http://bit.ly/m0qyd but change the xyzzy with any­ones Twit­ter name you will dis­play ALL their tweets PLUS any other media net­work details (except Face­book). I do believe this is an inva­sion of pri­vacy. By “reverse engin­eer­ing” (just for­get­ting what I just said for a moment) I was able to dis­cover the site is actu­ally oper­ated by CHAUNCEY THORN — see his Face­book Group Page http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=70366056616

    He seems to be asso­ci­ated with Sun­light­Labs http://sunlightlabs.com/appsforamerica/ which uses API calls to “data mine” inside Media Net­work sites. His cover is it is used to access con­gress­men and sen­at­ors within the US gov­ern­ment and it is appar­ently sanc­tioned by Hil­ary Clin­ton?? But even that is just SO WRONG hack­ing into a congressman’s per­sonal tweets and Social Media accounts etc.

    So I’m won­der­ing what has this per­son got to gain by min­ing into everyone’s Tweets and is it being used by CIA for cov­ert ops??. This is push­ing the bounds of Open Gov­ernance a little too far, don’t you think!!!

    This Chaun­cey Thorn guy needs to have his leesh tightened well and good, but I’m not sure how this is to be done? Any ideas? Stilgher­rian may need to know about this too if he is not too sick. I’ll post him.

  2. Chauncey Thorn Says:
    June 18th, 2009 at 4:30 am

    Thomas Suters.

    CongressSpacebook.com is not a fake site. It uses a num­ber of pub­lic­ally avail­able web ser­vices like Twit­ter Search, Flickr, You­tube, Back­Type, Google Social graph and oth­ers to try and make our gov­ern­ment more account­able and trans­par­ent. And it’s not asso­ci­ated with Sun­light­Labs (or any­one else), except that I had ini­tially cre­ated the site as an entry to a con­test they were running.

    If your social pro­file shows up under my site it’s because you made a com­ment in a blog post, pos­ted a video to you­tube, pos­ted pho­tos to flickr and/or have a social net­work­ing account that uses XFN and/or FOAF to expose data to Google’s social graph API. I don’t store or har­vest anyone’s account inform­a­tion. I don’t fil­ter out con­tent that res­ults from a query. And all con­tent “except” for the con­gress person’s meta data which is stored in a data­base is dynamic.

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