Sunday, June 26, 2011

Got Twitter? What's Your Influence Score - NYTimes.com

I feel like a number (a couple, actually; 37 on Klout and 28 on PeerIndex, at the moment)…

If you have a Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn account, you are already being judged — or will be soon. Companies with names like Klout, PeerIndex and Twitter Grader are in the process of scoring millions, eventually billions, of people on their level of influence — or in the lingo, rating “influencers.” Yet the companies are not simply looking at the number of followers or friends you’ve amassed. Rather, they are beginning to measure influence in more nuanced ways, and posting their judgments — in the form of a score — online.

Got Twitter? What's Your Influence Score - NYTimes.com

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