tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010765Fri, 03 Oct 2025 07:15:52 +0000TwitterBlogsPhilosophyWritingSocial NetworksBloggingAnalysisTrendsInternetStrategiesWorkChartsHotLimitedMetricsSecretsSocial networkTipsFamilyFollowersPop cultureTechnologyAcademiaChangeCreativityHealthLuccaPaulSerenaSnowAdviceAnxietyBuffyCarsConferencesMePoliticsSocial MediaStarbucksTwtPollWeb 2.0AgingAmericaAttentionCelebritiesCelebrityElectionExpoInsomniaKeynoteLentOlympicsRiskSexualitySocial Media CampSocietyStressTeensTelevisionTrustTweensVideo140Conf140ConferenceAcademicActionAdvertisingAhhhArchitectureArtBBC SpooksBarCampNYCBeijingBilly BraggBloggersBusinessCalendarCaliforniaChinaClay ShirkyComedyCommerceComputersCultureCustomer serviceCyprusDesignDisneyDowntimeEconomyEducationEmbarrassmentEmotionEthicsEtiquetteFacebookFakeFashionFearFilmFriendsFrustrationFutureGary VaynerchukGodGoogleHeadachesHumorIdentityImpersonatorsIntimacyIzeaJapaneseJobKateLaptopLifeListoriousListsLoveLyricsMakeoverMangaMarsMemoryMikeMusicNASANew York CityO'Reilly MediaOoohOpen Hack NYCPhilosophy. TechnologyPhoenixPhonyPopularityPresentationPrivacyProfessional AssociationsRadioRelationshipsResearchSara EvansSecond LifeSinSocial InfluenceSongSpiesTalk ShowTechCruchTimeTravelUpdateVentureBeatVotingWi-fiWidgetsYahooAn experiment and work in progress. Something to work on when I can't sleep in the middle of the night or can't write in the middle of the day.http://spiral-scratch.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Liz)Blogger111125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010765.post-7483606791868685337Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:36:00 +00002009-12-22T17:08:35.809-05:00BloggingBlogsMePhilosophyWritingHey, faithful readers. I'm sorry not to have kept up with blog series. I hope to finish it perhaps with a little less over-the-top sarcasm. I just underwent a small identity crisis about this blog, what I'm using it for, my "tone" and its content. This has happened periodically over the 3 years I've kept Spiral Scratch but more frequently now that I have other people reading it. It was much http://spiral-scratch.blogspot.com/2009/12/winter-solstice.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Liz)6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010765.post-5131927306425656336Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:40:00 +00002009-11-24T11:48:55.244-05:00FollowersHotLimitedSecretsSocial networkStrategiesTalk ShowTipsTwitterTo recap, over the past 6 weeks I've introduced you to my 10 HOT TOP PROVEN STRATEGIES & SECRETS HOW TO BE A TWITTER ELITE! ™ system and shown you Step 1 (Never Tweet!), Step 2 (Follow No One!), Step 3 (Impersonate a Celebrity!), Step 4 (Tweet in Japanese!) & Step 5 (Work for Disney!) that can help you on your way towards becoming a hot, top Twitterer.Each Tuesday (ur, Wednesday if I'm athttp://spiral-scratch.blogspot.com/2009/11/10-hot-top-proven-strategies-secrets_17.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Liz)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010765.post-6777318708281451060Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:22:00 +00002009-11-18T14:10:24.819-05:00DisneyFollowersHotLimitedSecretsSocial networkStrategiesTeensTipsTweensTwitterTo recap, over the past 5 weeks I've introduced you to my 10 HOT TOP PROVEN STRATEGIES & SECRETS HOW TO BE A TWITTER ELITE! ™ system and shown you Step 1 (Never Tweet!), Step 2 (Follow No One!), Step 3 (Impersonate a Celebrity!), & Step 4 (Tweet in Japanese!) that can help you on your way towards becoming a hot, top Twitterer.Each Tuesday, I work my tail off to provide you with some trulyhttp://spiral-scratch.blogspot.com/2009/11/10-hot-top-proven-strategies-secrets_10.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Liz)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010765.post-7107785217509422538Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:56:00 +00002009-11-18T14:10:52.112-05:00FollowersHotJapaneseLimitedSecretsSocial networkStrategiesTipsTwitterTo recap, over the past 4 weeks I've introduced you to my 10 HOT TOP PROVEN STRATEGIES & SECRETS HOW TO BE A TWITTER ELITE! ™ system and shown you Step 1 (Never Tweet!), Step 2 (Follow No One!), Step 3 (Impersonate a Celebrity!) that can help you on your way towards becoming a hot, top Twitterer. Each Tuesday, I work my tail off to provide you with some truly profound advice, and also with http://spiral-scratch.blogspot.com/2009/11/10-hot-top-proven-strategies-secrets.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Liz)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010765.post-5408498205519272165Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:15:00 +00002009-10-30T07:35:53.030-04:00EtiquetteListoriousListsStrategiesTwitterLike Twitter itself, there is no right or wrong way to use Twitter Lists. But there are some basic rules of etiquette along with some strategies that I've observed in the week I've been playing around with them.Parameters of Lists:Etiquette: Currently, Twitter is allotting users 20 lists with a maximum of 500 persons per LIst. This initially seems like ample space but once you get into the http://spiral-scratch.blogspot.com/2009/10/twitter-lists-101-etiquette-strategies.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Liz)17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010765.post-5190589959106599667Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:52:00 +00002009-11-03T08:59:55.333-05:00CelebritiesFakeFollowersHotImpersonatorsLimitedPhonySecretsSocial networkStrategiesTipsTwitterTo recap, over the past 3 weeks I've introduced you to my 10 HOT TOP PROVEN STRATEGIES & SECRETS HOW TO BE A TWITTER ELITE! ™ system and showed you Step 1 (Never Tweet!) and Step 2 (Follow No One!) that can help you become a hot, top Twitterer.This is the 3rd of 10 consecutive Tuesdays on which I'm going to release one of the Twitter Strategies & Secrets that the Twitter Elite don't want http://spiral-scratch.blogspot.com/2009/10/10-hot-top-proven-strategies-secrets_27.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Liz)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010765.post-6664772797340541496Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:01:00 +00002009-10-20T12:00:17.899-04:00FollowersHotLimitedSecretsSocial networkStrategiesTipsTwitterTo recap, last week I introduced you to my 10 HOT TOP PROVEN STRATEGIES & SECRETS HOW TO BE A TWITTER ELITE! ™ system and showed you Step 1 of how you can be a hot, top Twitterer.This is the 2nd of 10 consecutive Tuesdays on which I'm going to release one of the Twitter Strategies & Secrets that the Twitter Elite don't want you to know. I will provide you with some truly profound advice, http://spiral-scratch.blogspot.com/2009/10/10-hot-top-proven-strategies-secrets_20.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Liz)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010765.post-7930556670962179521Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:54:00 +00002009-10-20T10:03:57.701-04:00AhhhHotLimitedOoohSecretsSocial networkStrategiesTipsTwitterYou know, gentle readers, I've been working with the Top 1000 Twitter lists on & off for six months now, charting growth rates, looking at who's in and who's out, finding out who bought their Twitter account from who, examining all sorts of parameters on what it takes to be in the top ranks of Twitter users.But aside from a few public presentations, what has come of all of this time & http://spiral-scratch.blogspot.com/2009/10/10-hot-top-proven-strategies-secrets.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Liz)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010765.post-7651965569734174839Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:39:00 +00002009-10-10T12:28:14.624-04:00Clay ShirkyConferencesKeynoteOpen Hack NYCYahooI have to preface these notes by saying two things:1) 75% of this content is from Clay Shirky, 5% is from Tweets by other listeners, and 20% is my contribution, smoothing out sentence fragments and organizing comments into paragraphs. None of these comments should be quoted as coming directly from Mr. Shirky as I'm sure, as all presentations do, his verbal presentation veered away from what the http://spiral-scratch.blogspot.com/2009/10/clay-shirkey-yahoo-open-hack-nyc-2009.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Liz)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010765.post-2460012150705372943Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:57:00 +00002009-09-09T12:45:51.103-04:00AnalysisSocial NetworksTwitterTwtPollAfter being on summer vacation for nearly 3 months (the lucky bastard), Spiral Scratch has returned to being an active blog. While it was sunning itself in the Bahamas, I decided to run another poll about Twitter. The poll initially arose from a disagreement between myself and Chris Abraham about whether there is a "right" use for Twitter.The TwtPoll asked the question very simply: "I use Twitterhttp://spiral-scratch.blogspot.com/2009/09/why-do-you-use-twitter.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Liz)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010765.post-6513726250730253283Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:27:00 +00002009-11-03T11:59:50.143-05:00140Conf140ConferenceConferencesSocial NetworksTwitterI attended Tuesday's sessions of the #140Conference in NYC and had wanted to live-Tweet the event but my 2 hour battery life + iffy wi-fi connection led me to only Tweet for some morning sessions. So here, in no particular order, are some random opinion & thoughts on the day, divided into Pros & Cons.ProsIt was really great to have so many very visible Twitterers presenting, some people Ihttp://spiral-scratch.blogspot.com/2009/06/thoughts-on-140conference.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Liz)6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010765.post-5546935397676701548Mon, 15 Jun 2009 05:43:00 +00002009-06-15T02:18:14.457-04:00BarCampNYCPresentationResearchSocial Media CampTwitterI started this Experiment in Metrics way back in early April to see what I could deduce about the Twitter social network given all of the third party applications which are collecting large amounts of freely available data. It turned into a four week examination of the influence of the Suggested User list in determining who were the Most Followed people on Twitter.It turns out that during the http://spiral-scratch.blogspot.com/2009/06/suggested-user-presentations-comments.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Liz)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010765.post-7194050097399870444Tue, 26 May 2009 15:31:00 +00002009-05-26T14:08:56.822-04:00AnalysisChartsMetricsPop cultureTrendsTwitterRecap: I'm at the end of a month-long experiment tracking the Top 500+ Twitter users (based on Followers). I decided to look at the growth rate of these accounts to see what, if anything, it indicated about Twitter culture.Here are last week's fastest growing accounts with the SU indicating Twitterers who have been placed on Twitter's Suggested User list.Fastest growing Twitter accounts (5/18/http://spiral-scratch.blogspot.com/2009/05/season-finale-end-of-my-metric.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Liz)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010765.post-4385811692505298026Wed, 20 May 2009 16:29:00 +00002009-05-20T14:53:58.231-04:00AnalysisChartsMetricsPop cultureTrendsTwitterRecap: I'm in the middle of a month-long experiment tracking the Top 500+ Twitter users (based on Followers). I decided to look at the growth rate of these accounts to see what, if anything, it indicated about Twitter culture.Fastest growing Twitter accounts (5/11/09-5/17/09)Cory Booker (@CoryBooker) 995% SUJack Gray (@JackGrayCNN) 432% SURania Al Abdulah (@QueenRania) 392% SUMoby (@http://spiral-scratch.blogspot.com/2009/05/if-twitters-suggested-user-list-is-pbs.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Liz)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010765.post-7896407386946388652Tue, 12 May 2009 10:32:00 +00002009-05-12T17:41:50.397-04:00AnalysisChartsMetricsTrendsTwitterRecap: I'm in the middle of a month-long experiment tracking the Top 500+ Twitter users (based on Followers). I decided to look at the growth rate of the accounts to see what, if anything, it indicated about Twitter culture.Last week, it became apparent that the Twitter list of Suggested Users (found under the "Find People" tab on Twitter) almost completely accounted for the rapid growth of the http://spiral-scratch.blogspot.com/2009/05/twitter-growth-slowdown-week-2.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Liz)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010765.post-9114339414776315254Tue, 05 May 2009 16:13:00 +00002009-05-05T13:22:41.825-04:00AnalysisChartsPop cultureTrendsTwitterYesterday I posted a blog entry about last week's fastest growing Twitter accounts pulled from the Top 500+ Twitter users (by Follower numbers). It was obvious how dominated the list was by accounts recommended via Twitter's Suggested User option, a tool which offers new users suggestions about people/groups they might follow. I thought I'd weed out all of those accounts which had gotten the http://spiral-scratch.blogspot.com/2009/05/hot-twitterers-different-view.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Liz)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010765.post-4763665225519541472Mon, 04 May 2009 19:59:00 +00002009-05-04T16:45:34.564-04:00AnalysisChartsMetricsTrendsTwitterOkay, so I've been running through different kinds of comparisons using Twitter stats (see entries below) to see what can be learned about social networks based on the available data. Here is last week's data of the most popular Twitterers.Fastest growing Twitter accounts (4/26/09-5/3/09):UNHCR Refugee News (@Refugees) 5,446% SUSoraya Durabi (@SorayaD) 2,424% SUCDC Emergency (@CDCEmergency) 1,270http://spiral-scratch.blogspot.com/2009/05/twitter-metric-experiment-week-1.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Liz)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010765.post-8552346811052704287Sun, 03 May 2009 16:24:00 +00002009-05-03T19:01:06.930-04:00AnalysisChartsMetricsSocial NetworksTwitterI was going to "unveil" this tomorrow but let's give this experiment a practice run today. Trying to find new ways to use numbers, I thought I might find out which accounts were growing the fastest by follower numbers. You could call this Twitter Momentum or Twitter Velocity.Here is highest growth rate among the most popular Twitter users:Fastest growing Twitter accounts (4/19/09-4/26/09): Gayle http://spiral-scratch.blogspot.com/2009/05/high-flying-twitterers.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Liz)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010765.post-8222856446316637116Sun, 03 May 2009 15:00:00 +00002009-05-03T11:31:17.443-04:00AnalysisCultureMetricsTwitterWhen I listen to webinars or go to events regarding Social Media & Business, I hear A LOT about the need for solid metrics to see how successful efforts are (ROI). I've railed against this avalanche of opinion because I think statistics are flattening & superficial. It's hard to pick up nuances & the subtlety of complex human behavior by assigning a number to it.I'm a qualitative http://spiral-scratch.blogspot.com/2009/05/metric-experiment.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Liz)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010765.post-2127003911968812049Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:30:00 +00002009-04-29T14:12:46.223-04:00AnalysisTrendsTwitterTwtPollI ran another TwtPoll Tuesday, here are the question & results:Question: Twitter has been called part of a new "culture of oversharing."  Which answer best reflects your opinion?I don't really care about the details of most people's private lives. That's not why I'm on Twitter. 25% (24 votes)I'm curious about what is going on with my friends but not strangers. 9% (9 votes)The daily lives of http://spiral-scratch.blogspot.com/2009/04/twitter-oversharing-or-just-enough.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Liz)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010765.post-3537847270031622823Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:30:00 +00002009-04-29T14:55:36.990-04:00AnalysisCelebritiesTrendsTwitterTwtPollRecently, there has been a lot of media buzz surrounding the rush of celebrities on to the social network Twitter. Ashton Kutcher's (@aplusk) race with CNN (@CNNBrk) to obtain a million followers, Twitter co-founder Evan Willaims (@ev) appearing with Kutcher to show Oprah Winfrey (@oprah) how to Tweet, Twitter's Biz Stone (@biz) making an appearance on the Colbert Report (@ColbertEpisodes). Not http://spiral-scratch.blogspot.com/2009/04/celebrities-on-twitter-love-em-hate-em.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Liz)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010765.post-5329434669027458341Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:34:00 +00002009-04-15T08:32:45.451-04:00TeensTrendsTweensTwitterLast week, The Jonas Brothers created a Twitter account at @JonasBrothers. At first, just a few announcements were posted to the account but the band members began talking with fans yesterday. Their followers reached 60,000 in less than a week and added another 6,000 since last night. They could easily reach 100,000 followers by the end of the week and could surpass Britney Spears (#2) & http://spiral-scratch.blogspot.com/2009/04/tweens-on-twitter.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Liz)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010765.post-2813632816194322879Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:53:00 +00002009-04-03T12:38:36.372-04:00Social NetworksTrustTwitterHubspot is an Internet Marketing company that provides website analysis and other kinds of useful marketing data to internet businesses. I know it primarily for the webinars they hold plus their Twitter Grader which is Hubspot's own system of ranking people's authority and reach on the Twitter social network.This past week, they had an interesting entry on their blog, The Best Way to Build a http://spiral-scratch.blogspot.com/2009/04/why-i-block-followers.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Liz)7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010765.post-4090573084489474429Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:18:00 +00002009-03-24T13:17:21.435-04:00AdviceSocial NetworksTwitterSo, to recap, I posted some Tweets on Sunday morning on Twitter use and was encouraged to compile them in a blog entry. Being an academic, of course, it got expanded into three blog posts. The first was Finding people to follow: It's who you follow, not who follows you; the second was How do I get followed? Share, care and be yourself. This last post will just wrap up with some extra thoughts.Doshttp://spiral-scratch.blogspot.com/2009/03/some-twitter-advice-for-newbies-pt-3.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Liz)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21010765.post-1372054848065288895Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:25:00 +00002009-03-24T13:21:01.378-04:00AdviceSocial NetworksTwitterYesterday, I wrote up a blog entry with some advice to new Twitterers that focused on how you might choose people to follow. Today, I'm going to say a few words on being followed.How do I get followed? Share, care and be yourselfFirst, let's distinguish between types of users. There are those who will Auto-Follow, that is, have their account set to follow everyone who follows them. I use to thinkhttp://spiral-scratch.blogspot.com/2009/03/some-twitter-advice-for-newbies-pt-2.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Liz)0