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title: "Measure your Twitter Influence: All of it"
date: 2011-01-18
url: https://learningischange.com/2011/01/18/measure-your-twitter-influence-all-of-it/
author: Ben Wilkoff
categories: ["Blog"]
tags: []
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# Measure your Twitter Influence: All of it

Today I was given the assignment of measuring twitter influence. Here is what I did. All in all, it seemed to work well:

- I pulled the entire [TwapperKeeper](http://twapperkeeper.com/)archive for the username (both @ mentions and mentions without the @)
- I went to [The Archivist](http://archivist.visitmix.com/) and looked at the analytics for the username and search term, looking for amount of retweets and mentions
- I went to [Friend or Follow](http://friendorfollow.com/) and downloaded the CSV files for the friends and fans of the given username. I looked at how many followers were following my followers and what their influence was.
- I went to [Klout](http://klout.com/) and looked at the individual achievements of the user and of the user’s network.
- I went to [Twitter Grader](http://twittergrader.com/) and checked out the trajectory of followers (in beautiful line graph form, no less)
- I pulled all of the retweets of blog post announcement tweets from [Disqus](http://disqus.com/) just for good measure.
- I went to [Twitalyzer](http://twitalyzer.com/) to see what other people consider influential about the user’s stream.

After all of this, I have a huge amount of data and I know quite a little bit about how a network has knit itself together. I can see just how far the influence reaches, and what are its boundaries.

But, the real question is: If you aren’t on Twitter, does Twitter influence matter?