{"id":33415,"date":"2013-12-27T16:23:26","date_gmt":"2013-12-27T16:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/kenyatta-unionmetrics-journo-geekery\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T13:09:09","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T20:09:09","slug":"kenyatta-unionmetrics-journo-geekery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/kenyatta-unionmetrics-journo-geekery\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-33415 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/kenyatta-unionmetrics-journo-geekery\/attachment\/33416\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_my3bviw6lO1qznh46o1_640-100x100.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/finalbossform.com\/post\/71240048939\/unionmetrics-journo-geekery-tweets-loud-and\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">kenyatta<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/unionmetrics.tumblr.com\/post\/71238150513\/journo-geekery-tweets-loud-and-quiet-oreilly\">unionmetrics<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.journogeekery.com\/post\/70607130921\/tweets-loud-and-quiet-oreilly-radar-the-bulk\">journo-geekery<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/radar.oreilly.com\/2013\/12\/tweets-loud-and-quiet.html\">Tweets loud and quiet &#8211; O\u2019Reilly Radar<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u2026the bulk of the service is decidedly smaller-scale\u2013a low murmur with an occasional celebrity shouting on top of it. In comparative terms, almost nobody on Twitter is somebody: the median Twitter account has a single follower. Among the much smaller subset of accounts that have posted in the last 30 days, the median account has just 61 followers. <strong>If you\u2019ve got a thousand followers, you\u2019re at the 96th percentile of active Twitter users.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Via internal work email lists.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Emphasis added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the best:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>On the other end, <strong>just under one in every thousand Twitter accounts has a name that\u00a0<\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/latinbieberette\">refers to Justin Bieber<\/a>\u00a0in some way; an additional one in every thousand refers to Bieber in its account description.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a better bit to chew on though:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>For a few weeks this fall I had my computer probe the Twitterverse, gathering details on a random sampling of about 400,000 Twitter accounts. The profile that emerges suggests that Twitter is more a consumption medium than a conversational one\u2013an only-somewhat-democratized successor to broadcast television, in which a handful of people wield enormous influence and everyone else chatters with a few friends on living-room couches. <strong>There are undoubtedly some influential Twitter users who would not be influential without Twitter, but I suspect that most people who have, say, 3,000 followers (the top one percent) were prominent commentators, industry experts, or gregarious accumulators of friends to begin with.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Active Twitter accounts follow a median 117 users, and the vast majority of them\u201376%\u2013follow more people than follow them. Which brings to mind both\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/08\/12\/weekinreview\/12kolata.html\">discussions about the mathematics of pairing<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC2352147\/\">studies that suggest reciprocated friendship is both rare and valuable<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>kenyatta: unionmetrics: journo-geekery: Tweets loud and quiet &#8211; O\u2019Reilly Radar \u2026the bulk of the service is decidedly smaller-scale\u2013a low murmur with an occasional celebrity shouting on top of it. In comparative terms, almost nobody on Twitter is somebody: the median Twitter account has a single follower. Among the much smaller subset of accounts that have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[1539],"class_list":["post-33415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","tag-emergent-digital-practices","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-8GX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33417,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33415\/revisions\/33417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}