Comments on: Dawn of the Twitter Effect

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By: mrak911

mrak911 — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:24:44 +0000

aybe we should call it the “cashmore effect”

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By: Why You Should Be Twittering More « E-BLOG

Why You Should Be Twittering More « E-BLOG — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:52:09 +0000

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Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:41:47 +0000

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By: samsy

samsy — Mon, 11 May 2009 06:27:01 +0000

Have noticed this happen quite a few times when bands/musicians post a link – happened with Amanda Palmer’s live streaming of her play the other night…but when it does happen, you can usually bet the site that’s crashed is a good un! (just takes a tad longer to get to!)

By: Pingdom

Pingdom — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 07:44:51 +0000

@madcom: Pete Cashmore (Mashable) is most definitely one of the most retweeted users on Twitter, but this is a general phenomenon for Twitter, not something that is specific to one single user. So, arguably, “Twitter effect” is a more appropriate term, imho. Whatever it ends up being called, it is pretty darn interesting.

By: Pingdom

Pingdom — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 07:28:55 +0000

@MW: You are right, and of course the formula is a simplified one. It was mostly meant to illustrate the spread potential of a tweet. If you were to incorporate lots of other factors and special cases for each “level” of retweets, overlap between followers, etc, then the formula would quickly become a mess.