Tweeting requires passion and authority which leaves out most of Tweeters

There is was an interesting debate on Techmeme few days ago about authority-based Twitter searches. Loic Le Meur wants Twitter to rank searching results based on authority i.e number of followers and Mike ’s with him. But I totally disagree with this idea. Although the goal for finding better tweets in searches is (very) good, they’re so wrong on making it. Number of followers on Twitter only shows us the popularity, not authority. Everyone is cheating this number and what is the meaning when their tweets don’t make sense at all for most of their followers?

Scoble also criticised the idea with two posts. He thinks that Mike and Loic “smell” money from idiocy and estimating authority based on number of followers is a clear proof. Thanks Scoble so much, I can’t agree more with what he said in the 2nd post of his serie:

See, this is why I really don’t care about Mike Arrington’s claim that I should blog more because my traffic is going down. If I cared only about building a business or making money then he’d definitely be right.

Yeah, more and more you care about traffic, making money, blah blah… less and less authority, quality you get. You will don’t have enough time for something really valuable.

PS: I was too busy and kept this port as a draft so long…is it too late to publish this post?