2010-03-04 #1

Japanese TWIMPACT beta

We are now running a beta site for TWIMPACT for Japan only. It only works with japanese tweets and works quite well. What is interesting is the battle between a former politician 555hamako and masason the president of Softbank, a large telecommunications company in Japan.

First, masason started out december 2009 with a quick rise to the top. Then 555hamako followed beginning of 2010 (the year of elections) with an even steeper rise to take the crown. Also, it looks like masason has not managed to attract the same size of an audience as before, his TWIMPACT stalls a little at the end. Maybe he was just watching the winter Olympics.

I guess we will be starting to adapt the TWIMPACT rating to degrade over time to provide a better view of the current impact a user has. Even though it is hard to keep on rising one keeps its TWIMPACT at the moment. This effect is much more visible on the global site where you can find a lot of not-so-spammy-spam twitterers that rise quickly and should fall down over time again after they hit the ceiling.