Bot spanking for social network ranking
Social media types who enjoy measuring their "popularity" in the social media arena are in for a shock. Their Klout score could be wrong. Instead of a gold standard measure of how much influence they have on their peers, it could just be a measure of how noisy and attention-seeking they are... A Twitter test by an SEO expert …
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"Noisy and attention seeking"
says it all.
Precisely the trait of human nature regarded so highly by the new e-marketeers.
The rules of systems analysis
1) Any system that can be gamed will be gamed.
2) Any system can be gamed.
But really: using any form of ranking based upon Twatter [sic] is imbecility at it's lowest form.
"Instead of a gold standard measure of how much influence they have on their peers, it could just be a measure of how noisy and attention-seeking they are."
And in other news: water sometimes wet, and bears and the woods, what you need to know, after the break...
Shock news: spam bot more influential than twats
It's hardly news that the needy & pointless Web2.0rhea inhabitants are less influential, even by their own measure, than a trivial wedge of code...but it does put a big smile on my face every time it is ably demonstrated publicly!
</smug>
Maybe we should use it to decide how many times to clout someone about the head?
ahahaa!
It would almost be worth having a twitter account if it meant randomly getting a tweet "YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED" from the borg collective.
This can't be news to anyone, surely?
I mean, take the first self-proclaimed Justin Bieber fan you come across on Twitter (it won't take long to find one) and the chances are their score will be 65+, despite their entire output being incestuous RTs to a very narrow and similar audience.
In what way are they influencers of anyone? Preaching to the converted doesn't even begin to cover it.
Interesting
There is now a tool to measure the best among the vapid and uninteresting.
I am thrilled to be able to ignore that as well.
Thank you for the information.
Crikey!
Someone's actually built the much alluded to bullshitometer?
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