Twitter Influence

Advertising

Check your influence and visibility on Twitter using tools like Twinfluence, Twitter Grader, TwitterScore, Topsy, and Buzzom. They calculate your influence on Twitter from the number of followers you have, how influential those followers, and the ratio of people who follow you against the numbers you follow. Other measures are the frequency of your Tweets and their strength, which is measured by the number of retweets. The detailed analysis of these Twitter tools is on PC World.

Meanwhile Twitter's global and humanitarian influence became apparent in the awful Haiti earthquake. Even as the communications infrastructure in Haiti was destroyed, Twitter and other social networking websites posted horrific details of the carnage and brought home the seriousness of the humanitarian crisis. Twitter provided updates on where clean drinking water is available in Port-au-Prince and where people are still trapped under rubble and debris. Haiti native singer Wyclef Jean used Twitter to enable text message donations for the survivors. Another local celeb, Carel Pedre, was tweeting immediately after the 7.0 magnitude quake using his Twitter site as a bulletin board to help find missing Haitians.