Twitter followers are worthless, or worth a lot less than you might think
How do you determine what something is worth? Generally speaking, the answer is that something is worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it. This comes up when trying to evaluate the value of companies, but it can also come up when trying to evaluate the value of something that is conceptually new. For example, years ago companies popped up that created an economy around the hyperlink. Today ...
Nielsen's Matthew Hurts recently drafted a nifty graphic showing the blogosphere in links. This picture is based on an examination of six weeks of blogosphere data. Each little white dot represents a blog. The bigger white dots represent blogs with more incoming and outgoing links, while the smaller dots are blogs with fewer links. The green lines represent one-way links from one blog to another, ...





