Comments on: Click this and you’ll make me more influential or something

By: Khamis

Khamis — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 20:06:00 +0000

Yep, this is a great point.

By: tdhurst

tdhurst — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:04:02 +0000

I didn't mean to be nasty and if I did, I apologize. I was, from my point of view, being direct.

As I said just now on TechCrunch, it feels like we're constantly walking a balance beam. We can't very well ignore what we disagree with, but at the same time cannot support it.

This social media thing is hard.

By: laurasweet

laurasweet — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 08:53:31 +0000

Despite your nasty comment to me on the tech crunch article about Fast Company's Influence Project, I agree wholeheartedly with you. And in defense of my posting links to the sites on which I am an influencer, it was simply to support the comments I made. After all, I cant very well claim that I have a good deal of measurable online influence without proving it by showing you the stats about which I spoke. It would have been very hard to believe me if I hadn't. I was just trying to ad credibility to my point of view.

By: Timbotunited

Timbotunited — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 23:03:01 +0000

Mmmmm… the words you speak are delicious to my mouth.

By: tdhurst

tdhurst — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 01:16:36 +0000

Klout does a far better job than whatever Fast Company just came out with.

By: hardaway

hardaway — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 01:07:01 +0000

I am not sure I agree. I do agree that Klout is still having trouble figuring out exactly how to measure influence, but they have a small team working on it every day. I met people over the weekend who are very familiar with them, and everyone realizes the issues. However, I don't know that showing up when someone speaks signifies influence, either:-) This is one of those subjects that deserves further thought.

By: tannerc

tannerc — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 23:45:45 +0000

Hah, I was wondering what all of the hubub today was about. If influence is equal to how many clicks you can fake… erm, I mean, obtain… then any joe off the street can be damn inspirational. Besides, it's not very difficult to get thousands of bots following and clicking on links through Twitter. I know from experience (article coming soon).

They should consider consulting with a professional next time, aye Tyler?