In January, Twopcharts estimated that Twitter would break through the 500 million user mark some time on the 25th of February. But now it looks like it will happen 3 days sooner, this Wednesday the 22nd.

We’ve created a graph that plots Twitter’s exact number of registered users over time, dynamically. In other words, you can follow it as it happens. Read more on Twitter will break 500 million mark on Wednesday…

The Sunday Times has jumped onto the social influence band wagon with the launch of The Sunday Times Social List. According to them, “The algorithm focuses on other people’s activity around an individual’s postings, rather than raw follower numbers.”

At the end of last year, I proved that bots who tweet regularly, but non-interactively, can get very high Klout scores. I repeated this experiment against Peerindex, with somewhat better results. Obvisouly, the next target should be their list, should it not? Read more on The Sunday Times Social List says my bot is a Guru…

A bit more than a month ago, I asked the question: Can you become influential on Twitter, and get a high Klout Score, merely by Tweeting a lot?

To test this, I set up an experiment, which involves four Twitter bots that automatically tweet the output of the Unix fortune command-line application. Fortune randomly outputs mildly humorous quotes, and was often used on Unix to produce a ‘welcome message of the day’ upon login. Read more on Can you become influential on Twitter merely by Tweeting a lot?…