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What Does Your Twitter Grade or Rank Mean?
November 15th, 2008 · Filed Under: Twitter Apps · Twitteratti
In the top 10 words on Twitter, I noticed “TwitterRank“
Yes, once again, an site looks at your profile and give you a grade. Fun to play, not really much information to help you use Twitter better. Quoting @ryochiji, who wrote this toy, the Mashable story:
As for Twitterank’s future, it’s self-deprecating developer probably describes it best: “by tomorrow, most of Twitterdom will have forgotten about Twitterank. Thank goodness for short attention spans.”
What really matters is how you grade the time you devout to Twitter and social media. Great tools to help you connect and build meaningful connections. Use them as you wish, not for some rank.
November 15th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
One dark side to the fun on Twitter is some “guru” who is training people to follow people, wait to get the follow back, and then drop you. The purpose to this– to score higher on TwitterGrader.
My TwitterRank today is 127.79. I don’t see how you can score higher than 100, but whatever. After I follow all the real people who added me today, my rank may plummet.
What’s strange about all these graders, I don’t know any that give you credit for number of tweets or how long you’ve been tweeting.
Enjoy Twitter and forget the grades and ranks.
Jeanette
http://twitter.com/jeanettejoy
November 21st, 2008 at 4:22 pm
I think part of the problem with his grading system, is that it is based on # of @replies. That is only a meaningful measure if your goal is to get replies. In my case, I am a professional organizer who tweets daily to share an organizing tip based on my client learnings from that day.
Replies are not necessarily a meaningful measure of the appreciation for my content sharing. I started tweeting in the last couple of months and have 67 followers now with more added each week. In my mind, if I am creating a following, I am successfully getting my message out. And that is sucess:)