Would you rather be interesting or influential? Do you have to choose?
October 21, 2008 by Colleen Coplick
Filed under Social Media
Ever since I started participating more in the social media world, I’ve been corrected when using the word “influential” to describe a group, or a person. Apparently, the Social Media elite would rather be considered “interesting”. Personally, I’d like to be both.This internal debate between influential and interesting has been boiling around in my brain for some time, and even more so since I started playing with TwInfluence.
On the one hand, these kinds of little random statastic applications are totally useful for people like me – I pitch myself as a loudmouth. Being able to say that my personal reach is over 1.4 million people is immensly helpful. Things like TwInfluence back my words up. (image source: screenshot)
On the other hand, there’s so many of these little applications out there that the introduction of yet one more makes me roll my eyes and ask “another one??”
I’ve found one that I really do like, and I’ll be posting about that tomorrow. I just asked my Twitter followers what their favourite APIs are, and now I ask you – what is your favourite API for Twitter?
I hate Twinfluence…lol. I started out #11 when I first checked… then as more and more folks were indexed I dropped down.
Now it say’s I’m #50 when I check, but I’ve dropped off the bottom rung of the page, so I’m clearly lower than that now… Makes me crazy.