Comments on: Counting Your Way to the Trending Tweets Pop

By: Alan Levine aka CogDog

Alan Levine aka CogDog — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:58:12 +0000

Absolutely- that’s what the Buzzgain article describes – when you tweet is related to high zones of activity of twttier users by geography, but its not just a time zone thing, because it matters about the time zones of people who follow you for the secondary wave of tweeting.

It all feels a bit speculative, but I know that later evening tweets for me in the US are effective in getting the other side of the globs (sometimes, I am not THAT interesting)– Guy Kawasaki also talks about retweeting yourself for getting time zone boosts.

By: bjdavies

bjdavies — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:09:14 +0000

Ah CogDog. It doesn’t just matter how many tweets but also when you tweet. At Educause Australasia 2009 in Perth last May, we managed to get #edaust09 trending at number 2 or 3, as you can see from http://www.flickr.com/photos/catspyjamasnz/3524911780/. Could the time difference have had an impact?

By: Rob Wall

Rob Wall — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 06:51:11 +0000

I still think #goatscrotum would have made an awesome trending topic. Maybe if #eduyelp works, that could be the next project.

If the spamfilters are parsing comments, this one should help you keep that adult rating. :-)

By: Alan Levine aka CogDog

Alan Levine aka CogDog — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:10:43 +0000

Hey Rodd, you’ve trended before, so you got one on me! I might guess that your participants in the #educhat were well followed by people that picked it up. Or the stats are wrong…

Don;t lose any of that enthusiasm, we always need more of that.

By: Rodd Lucier

Rodd Lucier — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:09:52 +0000

I love the statistical analyisis, and I realize that true trending relies on the timing of tweets. For example, when we ran the first #educhat discussions last spring, we ended up being a trending topic by the time we were 40 minutes into a discussion. That was with no more than say 60 teachers who were posting tweet after tweet in rapid succession.

In the case of #EDYELP, if every teacher on twitter used the hashtag, it might not trend, unless enough folks were tweeting around the same time. Still, I can’t let that won’t dull my enthusiasm for celebrating the fact that so many teachers are learning inside this dust-speck every single day.

Maybe by the time May 15th rolls around…?