This is a really interesting wiki which tries to identify networks and communities of interest who are showing up on twitter. ...Tags: Tags: howto community community_indicators communities_of_practice twitte

The rapid growth of Facebook and Twitter has created lots of excitement. Facebook , MySpace , Twitter , LinkedIn and Ning are ranked 4th, 11th, 25th, 89th and 154th among all websites in the world, respectively. Facebook , Twitter , LinkedIn , and the Ning family of social networking sites are the most popular social networks with wide business appeal. Alexa ranks the world’s most popular websites. From a business point of view, MySpace has become primarily a niche site for the music industry.

In the spirit of passing time at Christmas, and following on from a heated discussion about the meaning and robustness of community in online environments, I invited 100 of my 1,276 current Twitter followers to fill in a quick survey cunningly designed to provide a fairly wonky measure of community allegiance. I love Twitter and I've spent an unhealthy amount of time hanging out there in the last year. Of course I welcome critical feedback about the methodology employed, but I had two hours sleep last night and yes, I quickly realised the massive cultural bias implicit in most if not all of the questions.

In List Building Using Twitter , I discussed the importance of list building and the ease of building a list using Twitter . In this article I focus on building your Twitter community — people who relate to your niche and who share some of your interests — people with whom you can network and who also extend your list in a more targeted way than previously outlined. Is Twitter Past Its Prime? Twitter will not last forever. However, I’m hoping that Twitter will have a strong future.

The folks over at BrandonHall, the learning folks who blog lots of interesting links, pointed out a value of Twitter that not all of us may have seen yet. Twitter as a search engine. The question always comes up “why would we be interested in something like Twitter. This was interesting to me because I’m co-leading a short online workshop introducing social media in a global international development network. One application I try to show is Twitter as social listening.

In the wake of a truly ghastly series of articles on Twitter , I am beginning to think that journalists will never write well on any thing that involves online communities or social media. Here’s what journalist Andy Pemberton of the Times Online learned via his informants about the stereotypical twitter user: “The clinical psychologist Oliver James has his reservations. “Twittering Perhaps the problem is this simple: They just don’t have the time to spend on participating in these communities which a thorough understanding of these phenomena require. You

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Ross Mayfield put forth a pretty interesting question on Twitter (see below). Twitter Twitter is referred to as a micro-blogging tool. The service allows people to post and read brief (140 character) messages (called Tweets) to the Twitter service. It's a great question - my thoughts below: Enterprise Instant Messaging (IM)

Number of Australian Twitter users for June 2009 was 800,000, according to ComScore. Over 70% of Australian internet users visited a social networking site in June, a 29% rise from the same time last year, reports comScore. Facebook in particular demonstrated significant growth; Twitter benefited from sudden mainstream popularity in 2009. Found this over at MarketingCharts : Nearly nine million Australians visited a social network in June, making it among the more popular content categories online.

traced the visit back to Business Exchange , Bloomberg Business Week’s social bookmarking site “that helps professionals discover and organize information from across the Web… a great way to share content and find the most relevant news on business topics.” Anita Campbell , a Twitter friend and CEO of Small Business Trends , “an online small biz community reaching over 250,000 each month,” had saved my blog post, The Social Media ROI Obsession , on the Business Exchange site. Looking over my traffic stats several weeks ago, I was very surprised to notice that a single visitor had been referred to my blog by Business Week .