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That little application called Twitter thats taken the world by storm. Quick easy and damn addictive, twitters got the world at its feet.

The Bacon and Eggs Guide to Retweets on Twitter

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I see a lot of information, everyday, about social media, its new features, the tools, the apps, the software, the systems and of course the potential and I definitely enjoy reading it and seeing peoples passion come from getting mucked in and involved.

Sometimes though, I see information about social media and I just don’t get it.  At all. Typically this information is the type of thing that involves numbers, fancy looking graphs, pie charts and some scientific looking pile of claptrap that aims to prove a point or justify a technique of one from or another and the end result usually has me shaking my head and wondering where these people get their drugs.

Maybe I’m just stupid

Yep, sometimes I think I’m just stupid, especially when I see stuff that just doesn’t make sense.  I find myself saying, “It must be me” when really in my heart of hearts I want to say “What a load of bollocks” because I know, if that’s the way I see it, then there will be a good proportion of people who agree, because simply put, life’s too damn complicated already, so why complicate something any more than it needs to be by adding mind numbing graphs and charts to it…

Having said that…

I then decided that I would do my own version of a graph and base it on the theory of increasing opportunities to get a ReTweet in Twitter.  It includes some very important factors that need to be accounted for when you aim to have your information ReTweeted as much as possible, but before you panic, no, it will not include some long winded and brain destroying algorithmic formula that takes 3 hours to apply your calculation to, but rather it all begins with some bacon and eggs…

So, for your enjoyment, here is:

The Bacon and Eggs Guide to Retweets on Twitter

And that’s that!

OK, so I jest.  Or do I?

Really, getting an RT will include some science, like being smart enough not to expect a ReTweet if all your followers are in bed, but that may just be common sense,  but at the end of the day, there are a whole world of factors that will be beyond any influence you can possibly exert.

The only way you can increase the likelihood of getting an RT is to have some good friends, some passionate followers or some damn interesting information for folks to enjoy, then let them decide if its worthy of the ReTweet, otherwise… well…your just kidding yourself really.

Twitter buttons, icons and badges for Social Media

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Im not gonna explain twitter, no way. If your here looking for buttons then you know what it is!

The range of buttons and icons in social media available for twitter is simply astounding. Here are a few twitter icons, badges and follow me buttons.

Click any of the images to enlarge it then right click and select “save as” to download he icon to your computer.

Check out more Social Media Icons Badges and Buttons.

Source: credits for the sites and artists who made these cool icons badges and buttons.

Twitter Influence – Social Media gets Scientific

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This is a little deep but none the less its an interesting piece to read and understand something quite serious.  Social Media has gone Scientific it seems when people spend the time breaking down and analysing the metrics of social interaction and try to quantify the value of this metric by comparing it in a live environment, namely Twitter of course.

The people in question are Alex Leavitt with Evan Burchard, David Fisher, & Sam Gilbert who created a report on the Web Ecology Project website titled:

Researching Quantized Social Interaction

The Influentials

Sounds complicated right?  Well to be truthful, it is complicated, at least to perfrom the research but its not hard to understand.  What the researchers did was:

Using a new methodology based on the content and responses of 12 popular users, we determined measurements of relative influence on Twitter.

We examined an ecosystem of 134,654 tweets, 15,866,629 followers, and 899,773 followees, and in response to the 2,143 tweets generated by these 12 users over a 10-day period, we collected 90,130 responses published by other users.

Basically they took 12 popular twitter users, looked at all their “tweets” gauged how many people reacted and either responded and /or corresponded that information over the 10 day period and produced an influence scale. (Grats to @chrisbrogan for hitting so high on the list, even though MC Hammer made it higher :P).

The report goes into greater depth (stop reading this summary and go read the report already) about the meaning of influence and offers some insight into the methods and actions involved in creating or gaining influence based on the twitter accounts studied.  Some insightful stuff.