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I love how the action unfolds at the end, each show competing for most buzz across Twitter while the tweets are streaming by! Nice work on lining up the commentary with events from the Emmys!


Unclear how this will play out. The decision to 'like' is more complex. What if you read text and watch a video? Which button do you click? I understand this generates more data - and that's the real power, but the LIKE has already become so ubiquitous.


Probably, the developer will add whichever button of Like, Read, Watched, Listened makes the most sense for the content.

As for the ubiquity of Like, the new buttons will probably look like a Like button, and probably use an icon from the Facebook interface. That should help people make the connection to Facebook.


Yeah i see how this will play out. Now we have 2-3 Buttons per item just for facebook. Because you can read something and like it aswell as want/watch it.

More buttons higher pageloads because not many sites use the 2-click versions yet.

Maybe someone should rethink the overall share model and find a new way to do it. Over time there will be more and more buttons all over the place.


Do you mean there's a two-click version of the Facebook Like button? Do you have a link to more information about it?


It`s actually only a technique where you replace the like button with a static img and on an mouseover event or first click you replace it with the original like button.

Its good for improving page loads because you dont have to wait for 3rd party servers and also its an improvment for user privacy because your site is not automatically sending content informations into the graphs of all these sites just because someone opens a webpage.

I can only link to one project i know of, but its in german only atm http://www.heise.de/extras/socialshareprivacy/ another example would be techcrunch but as far as i can tell they only use it to improve the overall pageload experience.


Unfortunately, I can see Digital Agencies and SEO Specialists recommending (and clients of both requesting) a slather of buttons for every conceivable type of Like on the off chance that someone actually clicks one.

I don't mean to point fingers, but I don't think this sort of thing is going to get any better: http://i.imgur.com/VeUr1.png


The veritable array of social buttons that appears on numerous Web sites tends to be one button per social network. The idea is not to try and ensure that people click at least one button, but rather to ensure that they almost always have one that they can click. I don't see how adding all of "Like," "Read," "Want," and "Watched" to one's site would help solve that problem.


If you read the post carefully there is actually no mention of developer access to these buttons. Obviously it might be the case, but all the text says is that you'll be able to click one of those actions in your feed. This makes more sense to me. You're responding to someone else's like.


I'm looking forward to testing this out. Smart and simple. With thousands of followers I'm always curious who is most influence in their network... and Klout alone doesn't cut it.


I've seen people with really high Klout scores because they are part of a small group of people that always respond to each others tweets.

We thought measuring click-throughs would be more useful for startups to see who can actually get the most people to take a look at what you are doing. If you can get those influential people as your ambassadors / talking you up, your golden!


Klout scores really show more of a relational-sort of data. I actually don't place much faith in the quality of their "ranking" system, IMO.


Thanks for the tip. Good catch - it's now corrected.


That's exactly right. We do have a word cloud at the bottom generated from a transcript of all of his answers, however.


No offense, but - that's not helping.

The OP probably (like me) wanted to hear the real thing. A world cloud can be fun to see how repetitive some words are used or maybe even give a limited glimpse of what the focus was for Obama here - but in general it's more a toy feature and ~useless~. Pretty, cool - but not helpful.


For those asking for it, here's a full transcript: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2011/07/twitter-t...


If a transcript is available, why isn't it posted as well?


This is a silly question. As I understand it, the info-graphic was meant to summarize results of the the event. Quit trolling.


Thanks! We'll be on the lookout for the next big social media event - ready to crunch the data. Appreciate the comment!


The marijuana topic is legit. We have ample data that shows overwhelming interest in the subject. It's not just about the drugs, it's also about the laws enforcing them. People don't necessarily want to get high, they just don't want to pay to have one of the highest per-capita imprisonment rates in the world.


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