Social Influencers

Social media is a fluid between the cyber world and the tangible environment we live in. In that sense, certain people are more significant in social media contexts and can create opportunities for others trying to gain influence in the cyber world. The trick is to find who influencers are and understand the relativity of what they are saying. There are plenty of articulate people able to read something and repeat it. The trick is finding who the main sources are and how does they have those sources.
In class we talked about different methods for finding people over the web. We went through twitter and were able to set up a network of people to follow who may have informative comments or advice for people wanting to gain expertise in a certain field. We also were able to find people through social bookmarks, and trace those posts back to the original user. Therefore, if a user is the original user more often, then most likely he is going to be an influencer, and someone who produces positive benefits to the social media context and world of ideas.
Ben Straley has a good article posted in the Mashable: