Comments on: OpenIdea: TwitterCounter.com

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:36:59 +0000

Congratulations!!

It always feels good to have an idea and watch it come to life…. I haven’t done anything as cool as taht yet though..

Keep up the good work.

By: Marco van de Kamp

Marco van de Kamp — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:55:55 +0000

He Erwin,

The counter is great for you. Now you can choose, when you see a blogger has a large audience on twittercounter do not bother to read it. Check out the bloggers whith less followers.

What I would like to see is what are the heavy growers, from 50 to 100 twitter followers in a few days. Combine this with summize so you can track twitter people on a seartain toppick.
And then make a new twitter user that makes posts every day from the fast growers (on a toppick). Just an idea…

By: Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten

Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:24:03 +0000

Don’t get ME wrong. I’m not saying that a blogger with no readers, no RSS subscribers and no followers on Twitter won’t have anything interesting to say.

My point is just that I would wonder why that is. If you have something interesting to say, in general (not a rule) you will attract an audience. Which also means that people with an audience often have something interesting to say.

By: erwin blom

erwin blom — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:04:20 +0000

The artists that have influenced me most haven’t sold more than 1000 records. The persons that have influenced me most have a real small audience.

But don’t get me wrong, i like Twittercounter ;-) and open innovation!

By: Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten

Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 19:58:56 +0000

Hi Erwin: How about a newspaper with a circulation of just 3 or an artist with an audience of only 5?

If the audience is TOO small (which depends on the situation) then I do take that as a negative sign. More comments on a blog is a good sign. More feedreaders too and more followers on Twitter too.

Less can be more but not always is.

By: erwin blom

erwin blom — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 19:45:25 +0000

Question: do you take a newspaper with circulation 900k more serious than one with 300k? Do you take an artist that sells enough tickets for a stadium more serious than one filling Paradiso? I don’t!

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By: Marco van de Kamp

Marco van de Kamp — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:38:07 +0000

This idea is excellent. I followed what you did on twitter and what happened on the net. Once again great ideas can spread out faster then anyone can imaging.

Keep on generating stuff like this!