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Twinfluence is a service which lets you measure your Twitter influence and see who are the twitter users with more influence.

It basically puts together a couple of parameters from which it calculates your “reach“, “velocity” and “social capital“. Here is adescription of these attributes, taken from their website:

Reach is a measurement of potential audience and listeners, a best estimate of the number of people that a given Twitterer could quickly get a message to.

Velocity merely averages the number of first- and second-order followers attracted per day since the Twitterer first established their account. The larger the number is, the faster that Twitterer has accumulated their influence.

Social Capital: It’s essentially a measure of how influential are a twitterer’s followers. A high value indicates that most of that Twitterer’s followers have a lot of followers themselves.

The last one in particular, Social Capital, could potentially be a very interesting way to measure if someone’s followers are just, let’s say, unknown Twitterers with a couple of followers or “important” influencers and opinion leader themselves. Unfortunately, at first sight, it’s not working very well because some users on top of the list looks like anonymous and not certainly “famous” twitterers.

In the Top 5 - Reach we found some well known names:

1) Jason Calcanis

2) Ewan Williams (Twitter’s CEO)

3) Chris Brogan

4) TechCrunch

5) Guy Kawasaki

Other famous bloggers / internet opinion leaders can be easily found in the Top 50, like Loic Le Meur (7), Robert Scoble (10), Mashable (11), Kevin Rose (14), Jeff Pulver (20). There are many others, you can take a look by yourself at this link.

Ok, what about me (I don’t consider myself a heavy Twitter user) ?

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Technorati Tags: Kevin Rose, microblogging, robert scoble, Social Media, twinfluence, twitter

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In the past days there was a discussion going on after Robert Scoble’s attack to ALL the startups attending Demo08.

Pat Phelan and Alec Saunders posted a reply in their own blogs stating Robert should have been more tactful in highlighting the cons of those startups, since there is surely a lot of work behind each of them and he’s not in the position to criticize them since he never built a startup himself.

My opinion is slightly different. While I do believe Robert has not been tactful at all and maybe he has never been in the position of those 72 entrepreneurs behind those companies, his opinion has to be respected anyway. The real point here is that he has a lot of influence in the tech world and in the blogsphere so his opinion weighs much and it can lead to reactions like those by Alec or Pat.

All that said, I think one of the main advantages of blogging is the ability to say what you think sincerely, without the fear to be censored but, ath the same time, with the risk to be criticized. If all those companies were wise enough, they would take much care of what Robert said, since at the end of the day he’s a power consumer of anything is on the web so his opinion is worth more than that of other users. Robert also pointed out that his opinion was about the websites of those companies, not the products and when I read  his post a second time, I didn’t really found any brutal attack to those entrepreneurs.

By the way, Robert took all this criticism in a constructive way and posted all the comments he received in his blog. The best one? This:

“I love how people think Robert Scoble is famous. He’s not - he’s just a talentless, fat, annoying, douche bag.”

He also finally posted a “nice thing” for each of those companies. Check them out.

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I think that addiction to games like Tetris can be much worse than addiction to social networks… Is Scoble more addicted to Friendfeed than this guy to Tetris?!?

Check this out and verify by yourself. My take? This guy wins the “addiction” game

Technorati Tags: Humor, luca filigheddu, robert scoble, tetris

I’m happy to see that I’m not alone commenting the “saga” between Shel Israel and Loren Feldman. After my first post on April 2nd, many other articles on the same subject followed:

• Matt Craven at Blog Herald
• Matthew Ingram
• a response by Shel Israel
• Tom Chamberlain

As I predicted, both Loren and Shel are getting great visibility from this. Good. How is this story going to end?

In the meantime, enjoy the latest video of Shel @ SecondLife:

BTW, Loren, your latest Scoble puppet is fantastic!

UPDATE: Mike Arrington joins the conversation too.

Technorati Tags: loren feldman, luca filigheddu, matt craven, matthew ingram, puppets, robert scoble, shel israel, Social Media, tom chamberlain