If Twitter is to become an indispensable element of social and signal the tool through which all your relationships with your community, you may be interested to know and try TwInfluence. Twinfluence is a service which lets you measure your Twitter influence and see who are the twitter users with more influence. TwInfluence is a tool based on Twitter API, which allows you to locate in the TwitterSphere and measure your real “importance” on the network of micro-bloguing.

It basically puts together a couple of parameters from which it calculates your “reach“, “velocity” and “social capital“. Here is adescription of these attributes, taken from their website:

Reach is a measurement of potential audience and listeners, a best estimate of the number of people that a given Twitterer could quickly get a message to.
Velocity merely averages the number of first- and second-order followers attracted per day since the Twitterer first established their account. The larger the number is, the faster that Twitterer has accumulated their influence.
Social Capital: It’s essentially a measure of how influential are a twitterer’s followers. A high value indicates that most of that Twitterer’s followers have a lot of followers themselves.
So how do you go about increasing your score? Well, the answers are really simple:
• Be Passionate: Think about why you want to network in the first place. What is it that you want more of? Search for like-minded individuals and follow them.
• Share: Provide useful, timely information to your network. Remember, it also appears on the public timeline (unless you protect your posts), which will attract more followers.
• Ask: And you will receive. Post questions, make them relevant of course – not “why is the sky blue?”
• Review: Check your network. Do you have spammers in there or people who aren’t contributing? Take them off your list of follows, unless of course they are your family and friends, in which case get them to read this post

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Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 at 10:59 am | by Kur-nia-one |