Got Twitter? You’ve Been Scored
 

IMAGINE a world in which we are assigned a number that indicates how influential we are. This number would help determine whether you receive a job, a hotel-room upgrade or free samples at the supermarket. If your influence score is low, you don’t get the promotion, the suite or the complimentary cookies.
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This is not science fiction. It’s happening to millions of social network users.

If you have a Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn account, you are already being judged — or will be soon. Companies with names like Klout, PeerIndex and Twitter Grader are in the process of scoring millions, eventually billions, of people on their level of influence — or in the lingo, rating “influencers.” Yet the companies are not simply looking at the number of followers or friends you’ve amassed. Rather, they are beginning to measure influence in more nuanced ways, and posting their judgments — in the form of a score — online.

To some, it’s an inspiring tool — one that’s encouraging the democratization of influence. No longer must you be a celebrity, a politician or a media personality to be considered influential. Social scoring can also help build a personal brand. To critics, social scoring is a brave new technoworld, where your rating could help determine how well you are treated by everyone with whom you interact.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/su...ref=technology

Note: Published: June 25, 2011

Welcome back!
If they score forum posts, than you will be high on the list

And this should be alarming or surprising in any way, shape or form? Seems like a valid marketing strategy.

Thanks! I hardly tops the list,is only 8.85 post,average daily :DL

Social scoring! Love that. :haha:
Brave? New? Not new at all, social scoring is just a gleamy glossy name for judging.
And that has been going on for donkey's ages.

ONLY? :D And you manage that even after being away from the monitor because of travels.

Hmmm ... may be due, at another time so is the average, slightly higher :smug: :haha:

Shouldn't be hard:D

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That is not Vendor-worthy news though :timeout:
Before posting news Vendor filters the news through many rigorous and quality-assured tests before posting on SUBSIM.
Vendor has stringent guidelines that he follows for posting news. His standards are high. :yeah:
The social scoring on this is: 8/10

I thank you humbly for your lines, it is quite right, the news closely scrutinized for the filtering of spam and other undesirable is in the news, :DL

Did not mean to be....you know.:damn:
Have fun.

I know,no problem my friend :yep: