How to Measure Influences in Your Twitter Followers
Measuring the influence of your Twitter followers is primarily a matter of what you find influential. A standard among many Twitter users is Klout, which measures a number of factors including engagement with others, and the influence of all the people the person influences. A more simplified measure of influence is used by Twitter Grader, which rates influence, amongst other factors, primarily on the number of people following someone compared to the number of people they are following. Sneak Peek measures influence based on the number of re-tweets a person gets and the number of clicks their links on Twitter get.
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Instructions
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Klout
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Click the "Sign Up With Twitter" button, then the Twitter authorization page is displayed. Click "Sign In," then enter your name and email address. You will be asked to connect your Facebook account, but you can click the "Skip" link to proceed.
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Enter the username of a Twitter follower in the text field on the top right of the page, and click the magnifying glass icon. This person's profile page will be displayed with their Klout Score.
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Read the "Klout Score" of your follower on the person's profile page. The score is based on 100, with a higher score being more influential than a lower score.
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Click the "Score Analysis" button to see the person's recent Klout score history over the past month, network influence with other people on Twitter and other stats.
Sneak Peek
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Open a new Web browser window, and go to visibli.com to see how often a follower's links are re-tweeted and clicked. Type a follower's user name in the "Sneak Peek" text field, and click "Go." A new page opens showing a graph of that person's re-tweeted and link clicks over the past 14 days.
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Click the "Link "Clicks," "Re-shared" or "Top 5 Links" check boxes to change the data used in the graph.
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Scroll down to the "Clicks Summary" section of the page to see the average clicks per link the person received, clicks on re-shared links, and the number of followers the person has.
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Scroll down to the "Links Shared" section to see the number of clicks received for each of the top ten links posted on Twitter by this person.
Twitter Grader
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Open a new Web browser window, and go to the Twitter Grader website.
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Type your follower's username in the text field, and click "Grade." The person's profile page will be displayed showing their grade out of 100, where a higher score is of higher influence. Their placement of all graded accounts will also be shown. At the time of publication more than 9.9 million accounts have been graded with this website.
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Click the "View User History" link to see a graph of the person's following, and following numbers over the past five months.
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