If you’re a Twitterer, I’m sure that you’ve came across Twitterholic before. Well, if you don’t, it’s actually a robot which scans Twitter’s public timeline and ranks the users based on the number of followers they have. Besides that, it even offers rankings based on several categories which includes location, number of friends and updates. On the other hand, TwitterScore, a web app that tells users how well they score for their profile out of 10, has also released a similar ranking as Twitterholic. But in this case, it has made use of an algorithm that calculates the popularity of each Twitter user based on several factors and rank them according to their locations.
According to TwitterScore, United States tops the list of “Top Users By Locations” with an astounding 63.21% of the entire Twitter population and the average score is 3.94 out of a maximum 10. The top Twitter users in the United States are CNN, Britney Spears and Barack Obama. All have managed to clinch the maximum score of 10. Second-placed United Kingdom was far behind with a density of 9.08% and an average score of 3.34. Currently the top users includes band ColdPlay, comedian Stephen Fry and the official DowningStreet Twitter profile. Just like the three top stars from America, all of them hit the score of 10.
Although the interface looks quite well-done as compared to Twitterholic, however, the folks there have missed some useful information such as the number of friends, updates, graphs and of course a link to its profile.
After comparing some of the statistics of both services, it has sparked off some suspicious issues. From my observation, the number of followers provided by Twitterholic is exactly the same as TwitterScore for most users. So maybe the folks at TwitterScore grab information from Twitterholic and include them in their list…I really don’t know what’s happening.
Thanks Seobat!