Last week, we saw that The Wall Street Journal’s main Twitter account was retweeted more “per capita” than the other four top newspaper web sites in the U.S. This week, I’ve compiled a list of 13 journalists, many of whom work for those newspaper sites, who were retweeted up to 5 times more than @WSJ. The number next to [...]
Editor & Publisher shared a list of top newspaper web sites in March, ranked by unique audience. Here is the top of that list, along with each site’s main Twitter account, its RTPMF as calculated by Retweetist, and the number of times it has been retweeted: NYTimes.com (@nytimes): 1.1 RTPMF, with 761 retweets in the last 7 days USATODAY.com (@USATODAY): 5.2 RTPMF, with 47 [...]
Retweetist recently added a feature that begins to measures what I consider the “viral strength” of a Twitter user. (Read this if you don’t know what a retweet is.) Go to retweetist.com, type a Twitter username in the box on the right and hit the “go” button. Near the top of the page, you will [...]
Go to a friend’s Twitter page and click on the “Favorites” link on the right. You’ll probably find either an empty list, tweets about your friend, or a bunch of great tweets by people you might not know — people you might want to follow. If you’re interested in journalism, click on the names in [...]
