http://danzarrella.disqus.com/NoneenSat, 23 May 2009 16:44:28 -0000http://danzarrella.com/blogging-about-tweets.html#comment-15181790<p>Hi, nice posts there :-) thank's for the interesting information</p>MikeSat, 23 May 2009 16:44:28 -0000http://danzarrella.com/blogging-about-tweets.html#comment-15181789<p>Interesting post. It just shows the huge Twitter explosion over the past year or so. The real time aspect of Twitter just makes it the place to go for new, fresh ideas.</p>SEODrFri, 22 May 2009 11:17:36 -0000http://danzarrella.com/blogging-about-tweets.html#comment-15181788<p>Yeah you have mentioned excellent points and very helpful graph.</p>Edison SamuelTue, 19 May 2009 06:18:24 -0000http://danzarrella.com/blogging-about-tweets.html#comment-15181787<p>I'm relatively new to watching your blog Dan. I must say each time I visit I completely enjoy how you analyze and gage results so much. You definitely do take a very scientific approach!</p><p>Cheers<br>Davin</p>Davin - The Viral SanctuaryMon, 18 May 2009 22:10:36 -0000http://danzarrella.com/blogging-about-tweets.html#comment-15181786<p>I think people pull ideas from Twitter to blog about. Usually the ones that are most exciting to them stem from entertainment- the whole ashton/cnn thing is just one prime example. Sometimes people grab onto some controversy or new concept as well. I get a lot of my ideas from the conversations that I start on Twitter and then expand it into a blog post. I think people just like fresh/new/hot topics, and social media delivers that on a silver platter for people to eat up.</p>elleMon, 18 May 2009 13:42:52 -0000http://danzarrella.com/blogging-about-tweets.html#comment-15181785<p>People blog about whats interesting to them, and i guess the entertainment industry fills that requirement for a lot of people.</p>MatMon, 18 May 2009 04:08:53 -0000http://danzarrella.com/blogging-about-tweets.html#comment-15181784<p>Hi Dan, to me your statistics make perfect sense. If you have been blogging for quite some time and you want to remain current, one of the easiest ways, from my perspective, to remain part of the conversation is to blog about celebs and Hollywood. These topics still sell, and I'm guessing always will:).</p>Deb B.Sun, 17 May 2009 17:27:59 -0000http://danzarrella.com/blogging-about-tweets.html#comment-15181783<p>@david I do try to do direct observation where possible since I agree it often produces larger/better result sets, like in the case of retweet data. But there is also something to be said about asking about motivational data (why someone did something) and asking about things that are nearly impossible to observe (like blogging about tweets).</p>Dan ZarrellaFri, 15 May 2009 14:38:51 -0000http://danzarrella.com/blogging-about-tweets.html#comment-15181782<p>Dan,<br>People probably blog about entertainment because they spend $$$ on it and are interested in it. Entertainment blogging may take less research and certainly has a gossip aspect to it. We know people like to gossip :-)</p>DavidFri, 15 May 2009 14:01:49 -0000http://danzarrella.com/blogging-about-tweets.html#comment-15181781<p>How do you feel about surveying vs direct observation/scraping for results?</p><p>It seems that surveys generally produce too few results and are too self selecting. What have you experiences been with this?</p>David FisherFri, 15 May 2009 13:53:47 -0000