Qua’s Social Computing Digest

Tim O’Reilly is publishing a new report,  “Twitter and the Micromessaging Revolution”. It costs $250 at  http://radar.oreilly.com/research/twitter-report.html.      Here are ten solid things the report provides.    So even if you don’t buy the report, you get a feel for why Twitter is important.

1. Highly readable investigation into why Twitter works–and why it’s important

2. Growth statistics from Twitter, synthesized with stories and analysis to give you a comprehensive picture of the Twittersphere

3. Examines the entire micro-messaging ecosystem, including the various players, where Twitter fits and some new developments

4. Clever and useful tips on how to integrate Twitter into your business, backed up by stories about how others are using Twitter successfully

5. Why follower counts may not be the best way to measure Twitter influence, and an alternate model, analogous to Google Page Rank, for identifying influential users

6. Why and how Twitter’s loose social graph and the default public nature of Twittering make for a remarkably intuitive and interesting social network

7. Exclusive interviews with Twitter founders and leading users

8. Gentle introduction to using Twitter for the newbie

9. Twitter business models and why Twitter data is important

10. Dozens of links to key resources and examples