Track the influence of your Twitter account

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In social media we talk about 8×1 rule; every time you talk about your company you need to talk about your customers or something else eight times to balance the scale again. You probably already know that social media is about listen, respond, participate and storytelling. Today you can see how well a brand is performing online by checking their Klout score. Twitter Counter is another similar tool but I will not talk about it today.

Keep track of your Klout score

The scores range from 1 to 100 with higher scores representing a wider and stronger sphere of influence. I tried to explain a few of the variables in the video; Klout uses over 35 different variables on Facebook and Twitter to measure true reach, amplification probability, and network Score. I summarize the info from Klout below.

True reach

True Reach is broken into the following subcategories:

  • Are your tweets interesting and informative enough to build an audience?
  • How far has your content been spread across Twitter?
  • Are people adding you to lists and are those lists being followed?

Amplification Ability

Amplification Probability is the likelihood that your content will be acted upon. Amplification Ability is a composite of the following subcategories:

Engagement:

  • How diverse is the group that @ messages you?
  • Are you broadcasting or participating in conversations?

Velocity:

  • How likely are you to be retweeted?
  • Do a lot of people retweet you or is it always the same few followers?
Activity:
  • Are you tweeting too little or too much for your audience?
  • Are your tweets effective in generating new followers, retweets and @ replies?

Network influence

Network Influence is the influence level of your engaged audience. Network Score looks at the Klout score of each person who interacts with you to determine:

  • How influential are the people who @ message you?
  • How influential are the people who retweet you?
  • How influential are the people who follow you?
  • How influential are the people who list you?
  • How influential are the people who follow the lists you are on?
How are you doing with your Klout score? I share some of my metrics with you here so you can see how it looks, you need to go to Klout and grab yours.

 

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My Klout score map

Related posts:

  1. What can Twitter do 4 your business
  2. Who Are You Trying To Influence With Social Media
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I'm about the same as you Mattias @ 57.  I wonder how the new LinkedIn connection will either help/not help scores.  We all love numbers, but I have to remind myself that this is not as comprehensive an overview as we would like it to me.  If klout was scoring ability to eat chocolate.. I would score 100.  lol.

Welcome to my blog @LaurindaShaver:disqus ! Thank for your comment and I love your comparison with chocolate.  I think that metric would help my score too! LOL :)

Klout is a great tool!  what i am missing with these kind of tools is a way to to filter and search for authority Twitters within a selected category(like SEO) based on parameters such as influences,popularity RT, keywords, etc, Maybe that is something to develop:)

@robsearch:twitter  Yes! If someone know how to use an existing tool for that use? Please let me know!

Mattias,

Hey, why aren't I on your grid??  (kidding)Your klout (klowt) score does not suck!  You're actually doing pretty well.  Let the various social networks kick in, and you'll see your score escalate.  :)Soon, klout scores will translate to real life perks on a grander scale - past what you may have received in your email.  Las Vegas is already granting hospitality upgrades for high enough klout scores.You might also check out Peer Index.

~Keri

@connectyou Yes that is strange! Why are you not on my grid? We are interacting a lot! Many of the paid social media listening software packages intergrate Klout data into their offerings, making it easier for companies to understand how influential the customer is who tweet about a product etc. Peer Index is still showing my avatar picture I had 12 months ago, I don't know what I think about that?!