5 tools to measure your Twitter influence

In The Conversity Model I discuss a number of tools and tactics which will help you to locate the influencers in certain domains or within certain topics/themes. Once you've found the influential voices in your market, the next step is to try and assess on the ones with the most impact. The number of followers/fans/friends/subscribers gives you a broad idea of their reach potential, but you should really look further.

First of all, you need to find a way to sort your long list of influencers, so that you can focus your efforts on the top ten for your market. Specifically for Twitter, there are a number of other on-line services that allow you to assess a Twitter user’s influence. In What Is Your Twitter Reputation? "Chief Digital Evangelist" Jeff Bullas discusses six tools to measure your Twitter influence with:

• Klout
• Social Chiefs - not included in this post since they don't offer instant stats
• Peer Index
• ReTweet Rank
• Twitalyzer
• Twitter Grader

Klout

The Klout Score is the measurement of your overall online influence. The scores range from 1-100 with higher scores representing a wider and stronger sphere of influence.

Peerindex

PeerIndex is a web technology company that is algorithmically mapping out the social web. The way we see it, the social web now allows everyone endless possibilities in discovering new information on people, places, and subjects.

Retweet Rank

Retweet Rank ranks you based on number of times you have been retweeted recently. One of the ways to track your retweets.

Twitalyzer

Twitalyzer is Twitter's most popular measurement solution for business and personal users, focusing on influence, impact, engagement, generosity, and nearly 30 more measures of success in Twitter.

Twitter Grader

Measures the power and authority of your twitter profile. One of the only tools with a pretty decent dashboard for top Twitter users per country or city, e.g. Top Twitter Users in Belgium.