Comments on: Twinfluence is About Community

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 12:50:08 +0000

I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don’t know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.

Sarah

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By: Things I Would Have Blogged About If I Had More Time (2/25/2009)

Things I Would Have Blogged About If I Had More Time (2/25/2009) — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:27:32 +0000

[...] a list Top 10 Twitter users in DC, and the LA Times responded with its own competing list and then Mark Drapea wrote yet another list. All the lists are sort of equally good/bad, and accomplished the primary goal of such [...]

By: Jill Foster

Jill Foster — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:08:13 +0000

Thanks Mark(!) for the commentary and mention on the list. And resonating above, @digitalsista and @womenwhotech are strong voices on Twitter and off.

It’s been an ongoing, fruitful exchange with Twitter — of learn, listen, serve, repeat I believe. It’s an incredible idea community and source for offline collaboration too; I’m grateful.

…exceeding 140 characters, Jill F.

By: drapeaum

drapeaum — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:00:49 +0000

Ari – These are all people that tweet as themselves and are fairly authentic. So, who they are and what they are doing (jobs, event planning, and so forth) cannot be separated from their “Twitterselves” – These are all people that use Twitter to reinforce what they are already doing, and so in that sense have influence both within and outside Twitter. IMHO many people on the original Politico and LA Times lists have influence mainly outisde Twitter.

By: Ari Herzog

Ari Herzog — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:43:46 +0000

Echoing everyone else, Mark, this is a great compilation!

But I have a question. Focusing on Chris Dorobek, for instance, as one of the few in that list who I’ve tweeted with, would you define his “Twinfluence” as a direct result of his other lives in FCW and radio? Or, do you include him because of his organic twittering and relationship-building that are irrespective of his other hats?

In other words, is one’s Twitter influence confined within Twitter or beyond? I’d argue the latter; but if that’s so, then it works both ways and one is against odds to build a Twitter influence without being known outside.

Thoughts?