What I think is this: When you have more people following you and you send out a tweet the chances of people coming to your site or listening to what you have to say increases. If you are in a crowd and you scream, more people will hear you. If you’re in a room and one person is in the room and you scream, one person hears you. It’s in numbers. The flip side is, who is really listening when you scream? The one person or the crowd?

I’ve also found that people follow those with larger numbers (status). Does it matter? Again, I’m not sure.

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(I have been reading a lot about twitter of late and that’s why I came back and elaborated :P)

What is a KPI?

And Susan really did have an awesome answer.

I really doubt if I care about twitter ranking, for me twitter is still a monologue mechanism though once in a while you can get some questions answered (without greater interaction like chat, forums)

Instead of ranks on how many (silent) followers one might have. they should measure the ranks of any system based on its real ‘buy-in’ and ‘interactivity’. Unfortunately, partly it is driven by the technical limits… Look at wordpress commenting system. Though you may have threaded commenting plugin etc. is it really still a good way of having dialogues (or even ‘multi’logues – i am searching for a word, :D)?

Basically the ranks, counts etc that we are so obsessed with is the creation of SEO companies and partly self imposed. Unfortunately, if you want to publicize and monetize your blog you have to worry about some of those numbers though they are not KPIs that measure the real success.

(Hope I did not deviate from the topic under discussion)

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