Social Media in 140 characters or less

This is my first full blog post since the beginning of 2009, it is not my first blog post of the year, however.

I having been Microblogging  Web Media on Twitter and quite enjoying it. Here are the top 100 users in Twitter’s Social Media Sphere “SMSphere” as of 1/4/2009. History

#	logo		Website		Grade
1		nytimes	www.nytimes.c…	Tweet	100.0
2		cnn	www.cnn.com	Tweet	100.0
3		techcrunch	www.techcrunc…	Tweet	100.0
4		davewiner	scripting.com/	Tweet	100.0
5		Techmeme	www.techmeme.…	Tweet	100.0
6		mashable	mashable.com	Tweet	100.0
7		cnetnews	www.news.com/	Tweet	100.0
8		hotdogsladies	youlookniceto…	Tweet	100.0
9		wilw	wilwheaton.ty…	Tweet	100.0
10		laughingsquid	laughingsquid…	Tweet	100.0
11		politicalticker	politicaltick…	Tweet	100.0
12		ijustine	www.ijustine.…	Tweet	100.0
13		timoreilly	radar.oreilly…	Tweet	100.0
14		gruber	daringfirebal…	Tweet	100.0
15		Ed_Dale	www.tubbynerd…	Tweet	100.0
16		steverubel	www.micropers…	Tweet	100.0
17		ihnatko	www.cwob.com/	Tweet	100.0
18		gapingvoid	www.gapingvoi…	Tweet	100.0
19		codinghorror	www.codinghor…	Tweet	100.0
20		missrogue	www.horsepigc…	Tweet	100.0
21		crystal		Tweet	100.0
22		aubs	www.aubreysab…	Tweet	100.0
23		BBC	bbctwitter.co…	Tweet	100.0
24		arielwaldman	arielwaldman.…	Tweet	100.0
25		zeldman	www.zeldman.c…	Tweet	100.0
26		bbcnews	menti.net	Tweet	100.0
27		Veronica	www.veronicab…	Tweet	100.0
28		ev	evhead.com	Tweet	100.0
29		20	evhead.com	Tweet	100.0
30		biz	www.bizstone.…	Tweet	100.0
31		majornelson	www.majornels…	Tweet	100.0
32		fredwilson	avc.com	Tweet	100.0
33		MICKIPEDIA	mickipedia.com	Tweet	100.0
34		andybeal	www.trackur.com	Tweet	100.0
35		al3x	al3x.net	Tweet	100.0
36		boingboing	www.boingboin…	Tweet	100.0
37		simplebits	simplebits.com	Tweet	100.0
38		mollywood	themolly.com/…	Tweet	100.0
39		emilychang	emilychang.com	Tweet	100.0
40		factoryjoe	factoryjoe.com/	Tweet	100.0
41		briansolis	www.briansoli…	Tweet	100.0
42		shelisrael	globalneighbo…	Tweet	100.0
43		dannysullivan	daggle.com/	Tweet	100.0
44		stoweboyd	www.stoweboyd…	Tweet	100.0
45		wilshipley	wilshipley.com/	Tweet	100.0
46		googlenews	urlenco.de/Bo…	Tweet	100.0
47		xenijardin	www.xeni.net	Tweet	100.0
48		davetaylor	www.AskDaveTa…	Tweet	100.0
49		Graywolf	www.wolf-howl…	Tweet	100.0
50		leeodden	toprankblog.com	Tweet	100.0
51		skydiver	www.shankman.…	Tweet	100.0
52		shanselman	hanselman.com	Tweet	100.0
53		huffpost	www.huffingto…	Tweet	100.0
54		samharrelson	www.samharrel…	Tweet	100.0
55		garyvee	garyvaynerchu…	Tweet	100.0
56		jack	gu.st/	Tweet	100.0
57		buckhollywood	www.youtube.c…	Tweet	100.0
58		ShoeMoney	www.shoemoney…	Tweet	100.0
59		sarahcuda	www.sarahlacy…	Tweet	100.0
60		pvponline	www.pvponline…	Tweet	100.0
61		t	tantek.com/	Tweet	100.0
62		hrheingold	www.rheingold…	Tweet	100.0
63		snookca	snook.ca/	Tweet	100.0
64		Lifehacker	lifehacker.com	Tweet	100.0
65		hicksdesign	www.hicksdesi…	Tweet	100.0
66		acarvin	www.andycarvi…	Tweet	100.0
67		jemimakiss	www.jemimakis…	Tweet	100.0
68		mediaphyter	blogs.zdnet.c…	Tweet	100.0
69		earcos	arcos.cc	Tweet	100.0
70		seanbonner	www.seanbonne…	Tweet	100.0
71		apple_news	www.apple.com	Tweet	100.0
72		edans	www.enriqueda…	Tweet	100.0
73		pkedrosky	paul.kedrosky…	Tweet	100.0
74		megfowler	www.megfowler…	Tweet	100.0
75		rozsavage	www.rozsavage…	Tweet	100.0
76		acedtect	www.subbrilli…	Tweet	100.0
77		andersoncooper	ac360.com	Tweet	100.0
78		nick	toomuchnick.com	Tweet	100.0
79		jayrosen_nyu	www.pressthin…	Tweet	100.0
80		kevinrose	kevinrose.com	Tweet	100.0
81		ross	ross.typepad.…	Tweet	100.0
82		ryancarson	carsonified.com	Tweet	100.0
83		MaryHodder	napsterizatio…	Tweet	100.0
84		rands	www.randsinre…	Tweet	100.0
85		lynnterry	www.clicknewz…	Tweet	100.0
86		irinaslutsky	geekentertain…	Tweet	100.0
87		badbanana	badbanana.typ…	Tweet	100.0
88		GeoffLiving	www.livingsto…	Tweet	100.0
89		sugarrae	www.sugarrae.…	Tweet	100.0
90		om	gigaom.com/	Tweet	100.0
91		warrenellis	www.warrenell…	Tweet	100.0
92		copyblogger	www.copyblogg…	Tweet	100.0
93		chrisheuer	www.chrisheue…	Tweet	100.0
94		engadget	www.engadget.…	Tweet	100.0
95		chockenberry	furbo.org	Tweet	100.0
96		jeffcannata	www.totallyra…	Tweet	100.0
97		calilewis	www.geekbrief…	Tweet	100.0
98		mbites	uk.techcrunch…	Tweet	100.0
99		howardlindzon	www.howardlin…	Tweet	100.0
100		jowyang	web-strategis…	Tweet	100.0

Note: as 140 characters would’ve been a perfect match for this article, these will often change and so the top 100 will do just fine. you can find and follow me on Twitter at www.Twitter.com/WebMedia

600,000 hits. Traffic projects to hit 1 million.

“600,000 hits. Traffic projects to hit 1 million.” ThunkDifferent.com 10/04/2008

Half a million hits. Serious Web Traffic @ Thunk Different

500,000+ visitors and counting.

iThink that is the mark of a good blog. A blog iSimply started as a response to a situation… it has spawned so much more and all of it for no cost to me at all. Except my time, energy and combination of the two to make the RSS subscribers happy. And speaking of happy, iAm officially happy to have reached 500,000 visitors to the web pages of Thunk Different.

Thank you readers, WordPress, Apple, the Wall Street Journal, IBM, and everyone else who has published my work and made this possible. iAm humbled, iThunk none of this was possible and wouldn’t have been with out the web & the people the make it possible… you.

480,000 hits!

“Whoo hoo.”

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blog

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