Comments on: eMetrics Twitter Backchannel Analysis http://blog.instantcognition.com/twitter/2008/05/10/emetrics-twitter-backchannel-analysis/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=emetrics-twitter-backchannel-analysis a discussion of visual report design & web analytics Sat, 04 Jun 2011 07:27:34 +0000 hourly 1 By: cidade (cidade.usp.br) http://blog.instantcognition.com/twitter/2008/05/10/emetrics-twitter-backchannel-analysis/comment-page-1/#comment-23960 cidade (cidade.usp.br) Fri, 28 Nov 2008 11:23:14 +0000 http://blog.instantcognition.com/?p=239#comment-23960 [delicious] [from fjcapeletto] eMetrics Twitter Backchannel Analysis " Instant Cognition http://tinyurl.com/5f4fbm [delicious] [from fjcapeletto] eMetrics Twitter Backchannel Analysis ” Instant Cognition http://tinyurl.com/5f4fbm

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]]> By: Powerful feedback loops, and why should you care « http://blog.instantcognition.com/twitter/2008/05/10/emetrics-twitter-backchannel-analysis/comment-page-1/#comment-23828 Powerful feedback loops, and why should you care « Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:01:54 +0000 http://blog.instantcognition.com/?p=239#comment-23828 [...] back-channel is always at work. In grade school it was a piece of paper that was surreptitiously circulated [...] [...] back-channel is always at work. In grade school it was a piece of paper that was surreptitiously circulated [...]

]]> By: Ignore feedback loops at your own peril » Hoipolloi Report http://blog.instantcognition.com/twitter/2008/05/10/emetrics-twitter-backchannel-analysis/comment-page-1/#comment-23827 Ignore feedback loops at your own peril » Hoipolloi Report Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:08:08 +0000 http://blog.instantcognition.com/?p=239#comment-23827 [...] back-channel is always at work. In grade school it was a piece of paper that was surreptitiously circulated [...] [...] back-channel is always at work. In grade school it was a piece of paper that was surreptitiously circulated [...]

]]> By: Clint http://blog.instantcognition.com/twitter/2008/05/10/emetrics-twitter-backchannel-analysis/comment-page-1/#comment-21364 Clint Fri, 23 May 2008 23:16:44 +0000 http://blog.instantcognition.com/?p=239#comment-21364 To my visitor from Hawaii who has looked at this post 15 times since I posted it: If there's something I can help you with please leave a comment, email me (civy "at" instantcognition.com) or send me a message on twitter (<a href="http://twitter.com/omomyid" rel="nofollow">@omomyid</a>). <b>I'm happy to help -- if I can.</b> To my visitor from Hawaii who has looked at this post 15 times since I posted it:

If there’s something I can help you with please leave a comment, email me (civy “at” instantcognition.com) or send me a message on twitter (@omomyid).
I’m happy to help — if I can.

]]> By: Clint http://blog.instantcognition.com/twitter/2008/05/10/emetrics-twitter-backchannel-analysis/comment-page-1/#comment-21148 Clint Tue, 13 May 2008 17:13:40 +0000 http://blog.instantcognition.com/?p=239#comment-21148 @June Dershewitz: Rock on! I'll beat the horse again - @jimsterne needs to provide better connectivity in the conference rooms. It'll be nice to let someone who is actually there the whole time host. Here's a tip, if you plan to do analysis, use Excel to grab the RSS on a daily basis. I missed a lot of opportunities because I didn't. Most importantly, time of day analysis and qualitative assessment. If I had been dumping the feed into excel on a daily basis I could have easily analyzed the content of the tweets - oh well! I think the XChange format doesn't really support this kind of communication, but what do you think? @June Dershewitz: Rock on! I’ll beat the horse again – @jimsterne needs to provide better connectivity in the conference rooms.

It’ll be nice to let someone who is actually there the whole time host.

Here’s a tip, if you plan to do analysis, use Excel to grab the RSS on a daily basis. I missed a lot of opportunities because I didn’t. Most importantly, time of day analysis and qualitative assessment. If I had been dumping the feed into excel on a daily basis I could have easily analyzed the content of the tweets – oh well!

I think the XChange format doesn’t really support this kind of communication, but what do you think?

]]> By: June Dershewitz http://blog.instantcognition.com/twitter/2008/05/10/emetrics-twitter-backchannel-analysis/comment-page-1/#comment-21147 June Dershewitz Tue, 13 May 2008 16:54:23 +0000 http://blog.instantcognition.com/?p=239#comment-21147 Bob brings up a good point - our ability to contribute was limited by the crappy network/cell reception at the hotel. This probably explains the "I'm at the lobby bar" reports - our phones actually worked there. Anyhow, this was a fun experiment and I look forward to doing it again, hopefully with more of our web analytics comrades. I volunteer to host the backchannel at eMetrics DC this fall. June "#2 Twit" Dershewitz Bob brings up a good point – our ability to contribute was limited by the crappy network/cell reception at the hotel. This probably explains the “I’m at the lobby bar” reports – our phones actually worked there.

Anyhow, this was a fun experiment and I look forward to doing it again, hopefully with more of our web analytics comrades. I volunteer to host the backchannel at eMetrics DC this fall.

June “#2 Twit” Dershewitz

]]> By: Clint http://blog.instantcognition.com/twitter/2008/05/10/emetrics-twitter-backchannel-analysis/comment-page-1/#comment-21140 Clint Tue, 13 May 2008 06:36:39 +0000 http://blog.instantcognition.com/?p=239#comment-21140 @bobpage: Bob, while your twittering definitely spiked on a couple of days, it was more distributed than you think. Because I wasn't capturing the RSS in realtime it's difficult to do the daypart analysis now. One of my top recommendations to @jimsterne is better connectivity in the rooms. As far as 'idea space' goes, check out <a href="http://tweetscan.com/index.php?s=mrforum&u=&p=0&d=" rel="nofollow">Media Republic Tweetscan</a> Basically, this idea space was lots of people tweeting what they heard during presos that they found interesting - e.g. note taking. It was a great way to see audience response to the sessions. I could have wished for more discussion (as was reportedly the case at SXSW) but still the many perspectives shared in Twitter were pretty darn cool. I've never seen a more plugged in crowd which was pretty interesting since they were all journalists. What's interesting is if you go ahead and assume that Twitter is currently for early adopters and 'influentials' then the web analytics crowd must appear to be a very normal distribution of demographics. We had 26 (including me) contribute to the backchannel and even if there were double that actually tweeting about #emetrics that's still somewhere south of the total population at #emetrics. Just riffin' here. @bobpage: Bob, while your twittering definitely spiked on a couple of days, it was more distributed than you think. Because I wasn’t capturing the RSS in realtime it’s difficult to do the daypart analysis now.

One of my top recommendations to @jimsterne is better connectivity in the rooms.

As far as ‘idea space’ goes, check out Media Republic Tweetscan Basically, this idea space was lots of people tweeting what they heard during presos that they found interesting – e.g. note taking. It was a great way to see audience response to the sessions. I could have wished for more discussion (as was reportedly the case at SXSW) but still the many perspectives shared in Twitter were pretty darn cool.
I’ve never seen a more plugged in crowd which was pretty interesting since they were all journalists.

What’s interesting is if you go ahead and assume that Twitter is currently for early adopters and ‘influentials’ then the web analytics crowd must appear to be a very normal distribution of demographics. We had 26 (including me) contribute to the backchannel and even if there were double that actually tweeting about #emetrics that’s still somewhere south of the total population at #emetrics.

Just riffin’ here.

]]> By: Bob Page http://blog.instantcognition.com/twitter/2008/05/10/emetrics-twitter-backchannel-analysis/comment-page-1/#comment-21139 Bob Page Tue, 13 May 2008 06:18:31 +0000 http://blog.instantcognition.com/?p=239#comment-21139 Wow, analysis of anything! Seriously, thanks for setting up the backchannel. I noticed a lot of folks forgot (or chose not to) use it, especially when replying to tweets. But it was useful for me to get a sense of what was going on outside the realm of my own experience. I had the advantage of spending Sunday attending the Industry Insights Day - where my cell phone had a reasonable network connection, and there was beaucoup twitter-worthiness. Most of my fellow Twitterers were only on duty Monday through Wednesday, many without a decent network/cell connection... a daypart analysis may bear out that hypothesis... Can you talk more about the "idea space" you saw at Media Re:Public? Wow, analysis of anything! Seriously, thanks for setting up the backchannel. I noticed a lot of folks forgot (or chose not to) use it, especially when replying to tweets. But it was useful for me to get a sense of what was going on outside the realm of my own experience.

I had the advantage of spending Sunday attending the Industry Insights Day – where my cell phone had a reasonable network connection, and there was beaucoup twitter-worthiness. Most of my fellow Twitterers were only on duty Monday through Wednesday, many without a decent network/cell connection… a daypart analysis may bear out that hypothesis…

Can you talk more about the “idea space” you saw at Media Re:Public?

]]> By: Clint http://blog.instantcognition.com/twitter/2008/05/10/emetrics-twitter-backchannel-analysis/comment-page-1/#comment-21109 Clint Sun, 11 May 2008 18:16:34 +0000 http://blog.instantcognition.com/?p=239#comment-21109 @Jon Peltier: Thanks John! I've added your chart to the body of the post. @Jon Peltier: Thanks John! I’ve added your chart to the body of the post.

]]> By: Jon Peltier http://blog.instantcognition.com/twitter/2008/05/10/emetrics-twitter-backchannel-analysis/comment-page-1/#comment-21108 Jon Peltier Sun, 11 May 2008 18:03:19 +0000 http://blog.instantcognition.com/?p=239#comment-21108 Hmmm, no image tags accepted in comments. The chart is at http://peltiertech.com/Sample/zipf_instantcognition.png Hmmm, no image tags accepted in comments. The chart is at http://peltiertech.com/Sample/zipf_instantcognition.png

]]> By: Jon Peltier http://blog.instantcognition.com/twitter/2008/05/10/emetrics-twitter-backchannel-analysis/comment-page-1/#comment-21103 Jon Peltier Sun, 11 May 2008 14:50:32 +0000 http://blog.instantcognition.com/?p=239#comment-21103 "So what’s all this telling us?" Your distribution of contributions vs. rank is described by Zipf's Law (<a href="http://www.nslij-genetics.org/wli/zipf/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nslij-genetics.org/wli/zipf/index.html</a>), which has been applied to web site traffic by Jakob Nielsen in <a href="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/zipf.html" rel="nofollow">Zipf Curves and Website Popularity</a>. I've made a simple plot of this for you: “So what’s all this telling us?”

Your distribution of contributions vs. rank is described by Zipf’s Law (http://www.nslij-genetics.org/wli/zipf/index.html), which has been applied to web site traffic by Jakob Nielsen in Zipf Curves and Website Popularity. I’ve made a simple plot of this for you:

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