With the hopes of a repeat success of paid Internet searches, veteran tech developer, Bill Gross of Tweetup.com, launched a new start-up venture this week, called Chirp. Like paid internet searches, Gross is out to build a better search engine by filtering tweets with a combination of paid bids and expertise factors. For a penny or two, Twitter members who want to get noticed can bid on keywords that will help distinguish their tweets from the pack.
Twitter says that it currently supports 50,000,000 tweets per day, with an average of 600 per second, pushing even the biggest and best tweets out of this universe. So Bill and his team have developed an algorithm that will rank tweets according to their tweet level of expertise on a particular subject and how many times followers re-tweet original messages.
“Anyone who is an expert at some subject…this is going to allow them to find their audience extremely cost effectively.” Bill Gross, tech entrepreneur behind Tweetup Inc.
San Francisco Chronicle, April 12, 2010
Bill Gross launches new service to help Twitter ranking
ZOOMology Twitter Rule #1 = define your area of expertise and stick-to-it!
