Great idea - I just don't understand why this needs a different/proprietary button in its implementation.
Surely this is just a case of analyzing twitter users who mentions your url (or any url with your domain, even), and then ranking them by Klout (or just follower score)?
(This would then pick up tweets that don't use a button, too.)
Point is, that is a backend process, why should I change my site's buttons?
a) The Twitter Search API is really flakey searching for urls. Twitter is shortening tweets with their own shortener, t.co, which is screwing it all up. We thought capturing 100% of tweets was important.
b) You can use any button you want. We provide simple iframe implementations for our button and a Twitter tweet button. We also give you code to attach to any js event.
Actually, we primarily look at just the clickthrough rate on the links to determine someone's influence. Influence is highly categorical.
For example, if I tweet about tech things, I'll get many clicks since most of my followers are techies. If I tweet about horses, ... not so many clicks and therefore I have a poorer influence for "horses".
Klout and # of followers abstract away these fine-grained details that, IMO, are critically important in determining social influence.
Neat idea, just put it on my site. We don't get a ton of tweets (kind of the wrong audience) but it would be interesting to see. The only thing I'd suggest is a way to add them to follow us on twitter as well...
I'm looking forward to testing this out. Smart and simple. With thousands of followers I'm always curious who is most influence in their network... and Klout alone doesn't cut it.
I've seen people with really high Klout scores because they are part of a small group of people that always respond to each others tweets.
We thought measuring click-throughs would be more useful for startups to see who can actually get the most people to take a look at what you are doing. If you can get those influential people as your ambassadors / talking you up, your golden!
Not that we can tell. At a minimum, this is free and super simple to use. We asked around for a solution, and no one we knew had a good answer. This does one thing really well
Oh, didn't think about that. Just assumed people who would use this already use a tweet button and are interested in more statistical information regarding the people that tweet about their page.
We are thinking about support custom urls. Ex: you assign the subdomain a.your_domain.com to us, we use that in the tweets. Would you pay $2 / month for this?
1) (note this could be all wrong, but this is what we were told) You can't transfer registrar to outside of Lithuania
2) No Lithuanian registrar offers naked http redirects (ie: wil.lt/x -> www.wil.lt/x). Hence the www. on all of our links...
We are setting up forwarding the naked domain to a static IP that will do the http forwarding
(forgive me if I butchered the dns speak. not my domain haha)
Surely this is just a case of analyzing twitter users who mentions your url (or any url with your domain, even), and then ranking them by Klout (or just follower score)?
(This would then pick up tweets that don't use a button, too.)
Point is, that is a backend process, why should I change my site's buttons?