Comments on: Why is an influence metric hard to decide on? http://www.howweknowus.com/2009/01/03/why-is-an-influence-metric-hard-to-decide-on/ Investigating, discussing, and measuring social capital Sat, 24 Jul 2010 04:30:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: erich http://www.howweknowus.com/2009/01/03/why-is-an-influence-metric-hard-to-decide-on/comment-page-1/#comment-52 erich Sun, 04 Jan 2009 22:11:48 +0000 http://www.howweknowus.com/?p=364#comment-52 Hi Paul! Great point and illustration about the audience! One saying I like along these lines is, "It's not who you know, it's who <i>they</i> know." Hi Paul!

Great point and illustration about the audience! One saying I like along these lines is, “It’s not who you know, it’s who they know.”

]]> By: Paul | OptimalPersuasion.com http://www.howweknowus.com/2009/01/03/why-is-an-influence-metric-hard-to-decide-on/comment-page-1/#comment-50 Paul | OptimalPersuasion.com Sun, 04 Jan 2009 17:22:04 +0000 http://www.howweknowus.com/?p=364#comment-50 I was listening to a discussion on Twitter the other day, and they made an interesting point: they were saying that it's not necessarily about how many followers you have (i.e. quantity), but the sphere of influence of those followers. They illustrated it by saying something like, if you only had Bill Gates, Barack Obama and the CEO of Google following you on Twitter, you'd probably be more influential than someone with 10,000 people following you, but who only each a small sphere of influence. Anyway, I enjoyed your article, and loved that you used diagrams to illustrate your point. Paul Hancox I was listening to a discussion on Twitter the other day, and they made an interesting point: they were saying that it’s not necessarily about how many followers you have (i.e. quantity), but the sphere of influence of those followers.

They illustrated it by saying something like, if you only had Bill Gates, Barack Obama and the CEO of Google following you on Twitter, you’d probably be more influential than someone with 10,000 people following you, but who only each a small sphere of influence.

Anyway, I enjoyed your article, and loved that you used diagrams to illustrate your point.

Paul Hancox

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