Our very own Neil Patel was profiled on the Wall Street Journal today for his influence in Social Media, primarily on Digg.com.
To find the key influencers, The Wall Street Journal analyzed more than 25,000 submissions across six major sites. With the help of Dapper, a company that designs software to track information published on the Web, this analysis sifted through snapshots of the sites’ home pages every 30 minutes over three weeks. The data included which users posted the submissions and the number of votes each received from fellow users. We then contacted scores of individual users to find which ones are tracked by the wider community.
Though it can take hundreds or thousands of votes to make it onto the hot list at these sites, the Journal’s analysis found that a substantial number of submissions originated with a handful of users.
Neil was singled out as being one of the elite.
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As I told him in email, congrats – to make the wsj is pretty awesome. I hope he will still talk among us common folk at events and mixers. You got a great thing going here.
Way to go, Neil. Keep up the positive influence!
Thanks guys. Derek, congrats on making it as well.
Neil,
Congrats on the mention. Just don’t let it go to your head. We like the humble but awesome Neil. :)
Well done Neil. Congrats!
Why am I not surprised…. :P
Way to go, Neil….. Great Job!