TweetLevel, developed by Edelman, is a simple but powerful web app which provides a way to measure the influence level of people according to their activity on Twitter.
I know, I know, you want to know how exactly does this web app calculates all this information and comes up with a result saying you are or not influential. Well in simple words: Numbers of followers, how much do you interact and chat with other people and how many re tweets do you receive.
That was the easy explanation; do you want the complex one? Ok here’s the TweetLevel formula:
There we can see there are other variables like: Number of updates; velocity; following users; name pointing; etc. But no worries, the complete explanation of this can be found here.
In the top five we can find:
1. Justin Bieber.
2. Perez Hilton.
3. SouljaBoy.
4. OGOchoCinco.
5. KimKardashian.
Ashton Kutcher is number 11; Puff Daddy, 14; Barack Obama, 19; among other interesting Twitter users.
And you? What’s your Tweet Level?
Dan Zarella is, as the blog says it, the social media scientist; and created a very interesting tool: “Most ReTweetable Words Finder” given a keyword, shows the most retweetable words.
The use is quite simple as well: enter a keyword and click analyze. The tool will return a list of words that were found to be related to that word and highly ReTweetable. It will also display the number of Tweets and ReTweets analyzed to generate the list. Here’s an example of “Microsoft” keyword:
We can find some words like “kinect”, “gaming”, “camera”, “ironruby” or even “fetish” (?).
The tool compares words found in ReTweets against non-ReTweet Tweets. Using the last 24hours, the tool analyzes up to 1500 Tweets and 1500 ReTweets per word.
If you are interested in retweeats, Dan created a report: “The Science of ReTweets”
Do you actually remember who your first follower was? And your first tweet? Well you don’t need to test your memory; MyFirstTweet and FirstFollower will do the job for you.
Any of these two simple web apps does not require connecting with your Twitter account to retrieve this information, just use your Twitter name and the result will be available in just a few seconds.
MyFirstTweet web app currently is showing a disclaimer about the use of it: “This is working intermittently at the moment. I think the site hasn’t quite cleared Twitter’s whitelist yet. If you put in your twitter username I’ll save it and run it when things are running again. Sorry about that.”
In my case I didn’t have any problem running it.
Oh and in case you are interested, there’s also a section with the “earliest tweets”.
