Trst.me: Your Ranking On Twitter

There are many people who spend hours everyday posting to their Twitter accounts and building relationships. In fact, all bloggers need to take time to get involved on Twitter and connect with others in their niche. Many assume that the more followers you have, the better off you are. That can’t be further from the truth. The quality of your followers is more important than the quantity (though I have to admit sometimes quantity can outweigh quality). Plenty of Twitter ranking tools pay more attention to the number of followers each Twitter user has instead of the quality. Now there is a tool that addresses that issue.

Trst.me is a simple to use Twitter tool that ranks you based on the quality of your followers, instead of just the quantity. It not only counts the number of followers that you have towards your ranking, but also the number of followers your followers have. In many ways, the algorithm used by Trst.me is similar to the one used by Google for its PageRank program (though there are differences).

Here is what my Twitter account looks like when using this service:

While it may be disappointing to be ranked that low by this service, this information can give me ideas how to improve the quality of my followers and take my account to the next level. I do tend to follow anyone who’s been kind enough to follow me (as long as they are not spamming). I have probably not done a good job connecting with more top Twitter users. These are things that can be fixed. It’s nice to get 100% Twitter scores on some of these sites, but the goal is not to have the most followers.

The service is still not perfect. The score is not niche specific. Let’s say I have an account on everything iPhone. Influential iPhone twitterers should get a higher score than those who just happen to be interested in iPhone news. So it’d be nice if one could get rankings in various categories or based on keywords. The good news is the tool is free, and the developers have promised more improvements in the future. It’d be interesting to see what they have in mind.