For More Twitter Followers, Try More Information, Less Negativity
The Science Of Twitter TwitterFinally, science solves that age-old question: How can I be more popular on the Internet? Desperate to up your Twitter follower account? Rather than staging a fake account hack or pulling a Mitt Romney and buying followers, you could do what we always do: turn to science. A study from the comp.social lab at Georgia Tech -- a research lab that designs and analyzes social media -- suggests that to boost follower growth, the content you're tweeting and who you interact with are more important than when you tweet or who you follow. The paper will be presented at CHI 2013, an conference in late April on human-computer interaction. For more than a year, three researchers tracked more than 500 active, non-celebrity public Twitter users, checking in every three months to look at the users' behavior, the content of their messages and their social network. The...