New Twitter channels are up and running

Viewsflow now has various Twitter channels set up to allow our users to subscribe and receive business commentary in the topics they are interested in.  At the moment, the following Twitter Channels are available.

Our firehose feed: with all top/interesting content.

Climate change: Policy, technology, investment and science on climate change.

Social media: All about Facebook, Twitter, and the emerging business of social media.

Offbeat stories: Unexpected applications of economics and other off-the-beaten path content to lighten your day.

Cool thinking: Where science, neuroscience and psychology meets business and finance.

Insider insights: Mostly leaked reports.

Management: Business management wisdom to navigate through turbulent times

Global economy: Global macroeconomic issues & trade

North American economy: US and Canada : business and economics

European economies: European economies, ex UK

UK economy: the UK Economy

Chinese economy: China

Indian economy: India

Japanese economy: Japan

Brazilian economy: Brazil

Rest of the world economies: Rest not covered by channels above

Tech, media & telecom:  Apple, Google, Microsoft, News Corp and the rest

VC and Private equity: VC and private equity (mostly focussed on the business of VC)

Financial services: Banking industry: Goldman, Citi, etc

Retail and consumer: Retail and consumer industry (WalMart, Target, Nike, etc)

Health and pharmaceuticals: Pharma and healthcare

Industrials and construction: Industrial and transport.

Energy and extractives: Miners and energy companies

Public and third sector: Tracking the going-ons of the public sector around the world, as well as the charitable and not-for-profit sectors.

Currencies: USD, JPY, GBP and other major currencies

Equities: Equity market commentary

Commodities: Softs and hards, inc oil, gold, silver, coffee…

Capital markets: Capital market activity

Our corporate account: various topical Twitter lists are available for following here.

How we calculate these influence ranks

We calculate your influence rank using a range of measures

1. We look at the links that you recommend to your networks and analyse the content and context of those links

2. We look at how well the rest of the world views that content. Did other people believe it had an impact? Did other people tweet that link (or best of all retweet you?)

3. We look at whether you discover / recommend items early, whether you amplify links found by others or whether you are a bandwagon-jumper (nothing wrong with that).

4. We qualify your activity against your normal measure of activity and the levels of activity on a given subject.

We weigh these factors up and come up with an influence score on a per topic basis. From this influence score  we build a ranking, and that allows you to say that, ta da, you are the 3rd most influential person on a given topic.

We recalculate these rankings frequently, more than once a day. Our plan is to increase the frequency with which we do these calculations.

Visualizing our stories

Here’s a quick visualization of what’s making our front page today.

Viewsflow visualized