Retweet Rank Documents Topical Influence & Audience Interest

by Brian Solis on January 2, 2009

It’s the week for new Twitter Apps to say the least. On the heels of our coverage of Replies by TwitApps, we’re now introduced to Retweet Rank.

Retweetrank measures the RT reach and topical influence of anyone on Twitter by calculating the number of RT’s associated with a username. It then ranks the results based on the quantity of retweets (the close to 1, the better) and also provides an approximate percentile representing the overall position over the general Twitter population (100% equals complete authority).

Retweet rank also publishes a Top 50 leaderboard that seems to be updated automatically as they standings fluctuate.

Here’s the current Top 50 at the time of this post:

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{ 3 comments }

Baxter Tocher (Who am I?) 01.02.09 at 11:41 am

Retweets to me have always seemed like the person writing them was struggling to come up with something original.

I’ve done one to promote a friend’s gig, and another for an early warning about insecure software, but to be honest, other than that, it just seems like laziness to me. Why not have something original to say?

In my view, RTs are something that will put the average user off using Twitter altogether, and I think that’s the last thing we want right now.

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Jan Tallent (Who am I?) 01.02.09 at 3:34 pm