A startup monitors the spread of information on Twitter to identify users with the most influence.
It's not the number of followers you have on Twitter that counts--it's how you influence them. That's the message from a new service called PeerIndex that analyzes the flow of information through Twitter. It offers a way to find people who are particularly authoritative in certain domains.
The users it turns up may have relatively few followers but can still wield a huge amount of influence-- in particular subject areas.
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Author: Tom Simonite
