We wanted to take a second to note that Ed (@znmeb) and Dan (@sunsblogger) won our first Twitalyzer Community contest to tag social media experts, celebrities, and politicians. Congratulations to both guys who will shortly see their faces in rotation on the “Featured Users” widgets throughout the web site.
While Ed, Dan, Carri, and a host of other folks tagged like crazy we didn’t get the critical mass we’d hoped, especially among politicians and celebrities. Perhaps a better strategy is to ask you … what could we offer you to get you to tag folks in Twitalyzer? Make tagging easier? More intuitive? Better prizes? Cash money? What do you think?
If you have ideas and suggestions please Tweet us directly and let us know. Thanks!
As we kick off the Twitalyzer Community idea we wanted to see if we could get your collective help with something!
We’d really like to start getting more people tagged in Twitalyzer. Tagging makes the application amazingly more powerful and useful, but we have not done a good job clarifying the how’s and why’s of tagging. While we work that out, we want to have a contest!
The contest is to see who can add the tags “Social_Media_Expert”, “Politician”, and “Celebrity” to the greatest number of Twitter users in our system. All you need to do to add the tags is Twitalyze someone you know to be in one of those three categories, click any of the “Tag” buttons on their profile, and add the text. For example:
The only real requirement is that, you know, the person you’re tagging is a social media expert, politician, or celebrity. We’ll let you be the judge, but we will also spot check your work and disallow/remove inappropriate entries so don’t be that guy, okay? To keep track of who is doing the most tagging we’ve created this uber-cool Top 25 Twitalyzer Tracker list that you can segment by geographic location or tag applied. Check out the early results for all three categories:
- Twitalyzer Tag “Social_Media_Expert”
- Twitalyzer Tag “Politician”
- Twitalyzer Tag “Celebrity“
The prize for the “top tagger” in each category on February 1, 2010 will be a free month in the “Featured User” slot all throughout Twitalyzer (a $100 USD value!!!) That and the warm feeling you’ll get when you go to bed knowing you did something really awesome for the Twitalyzer Community. Go forth and tag, Twitalyzers!
One thing that Jeff and I have discovered since releasing Twitalyzer 2.0 is that some of our users are really, really passionate about, well, Twitalyzing people. We think this is totally, totally awesome, and we have been brainstorming on ways to both recognize the fantastic work many of you are doing on our behalf and, if people are willing, apply crowd-sourcing techniques to help improve Twitalyzer.
The best idea we’ve had so far is to launch this section of the site, The Twitalyzer Community pages!
Through the Twitalyzer Community pages we will do our very best to communicate our needs to you and, more importantly, give all of you a voice to ask for the features you’d like to see us develop in subsequent iterations of the application. While you all know we watch Twitter Search religiously for mentions of Twitalyzer and are always happy to get feedback via email (feedback@twitalyzer.com or write to eric@twitalyzer.com or jeff@twitalyzer.com), we wanted to set up another way for folks to offer feedback publicly. Something really, really easy.
How about just tagging your feedback with the hashtag #twitalyzer?
Doing this will let us keep an eye on your feedback using Twitalyzer Search which we think is a pretty freaking useful thing to do. Not that we’ll respond differently if you have low impact or influence … not us, we love you guys! If you have an idea, suggestion, criticism, complaint, or just want to let us know you love us too, tag your Tweet with “#twitalyzer” and we’ll be sure to get back to you ASAP!
You can even keep in touch with each other that way if you like. Who knows how it will evolve?
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