“twitter reach” as a metric?

Karim got me thinking about metrics around twitter. He’s suggesting a followers to following ratio (in my case about 164/132: 1.23 or so – grown from 148/119.)

I personally like posts / followers, which helps understand how many people you’re reaching. In my case that’s about 337/164 – or about 2.05. Should that number be lower-is-better? Scobleizer has 25,186 followers and 12,232 updates. (Seriously, 12k posts? Who has that much time?) That gives him a reach of about 0.48 – a healthy low number.

But maybe it should just be a multiplier. For me that would be 55k, for him it would be about 308 million. A ratio that probably reflects reality.

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5 Responses to “twitter reach” as a metric?

  1. Asa Dotzler says:

    My followers to following ratio is crazy awesome. 105:0
    :-)

  2. blizzard says:

    Yeah, I thought about that one. I would call it “infinite twitter reach.” :)

  3. blizzard says:

    Looks like Dave Wiener already did something like this (thanks, Paul!)

    http://twitter.scripting.com/spewage.html

  4. dria says:

    I think maybe you’re taking twitter too seriously :)

  5. blizzard says:

    Maybe! But not really. Mostly just having fun.

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