Blowing One’s Own Twumpet

As my sciencebase twitter identity jumped to 99.99% on Twittergrader, I thought it was time to do a little bit of auto-trumpet blowing, which as an adjunct will perhaps also alert Sciencetext readers to the existence of a couple of analytics tools they might use for their own twitter name. so, I’m not just after bragging rights, but wanted to share the metrics tools with Sciencetext readers (honest).

So, sciencebase jumped into the Top 20 of UK twitter users, well behind the Guardian’s Jemima Kiss, of course, the BBC’s Rory Cellan-Jones, foul-mouthed and self-professed pseudopoof Jonathan Ross, and self-professed actual clockwork orange Stephen Fry (he’s at #12, sciencebase is at #18 at the moment).

Twittergrader also tells me I’m 447th of 2,081,355 twitter users ranked by the system. But, how do I fare on Twitterholic? Well, I’m 20th in the UK but don’t fare quite so well among all ranked tweeps – 4,525th by follower count. Twittergrader grades on the basis of engagement, reach, retweets and followers, so is probably a much more worthwhile measure of one’s twitterworth.

Then there’s TwitterCounter which graphs your follower growth and nicely illustrates sciencebase’s leap in follower numbers in mid-April (when I was on vacation, hah!) when Guy Kawasaki or one of his ghost writers retweeted my Stupid Science post and on the same day Sciencebase was featured in Mashable as one of 13 reality-perspective changing tweeters everyone should follow (thanks to @2020science).

By the way my follower numbers have risen quite rapidly in the last few weeks for which I’m grateful, but I have a backlog of Topify notifications to run through before I reciprocate. If you followed me and I haven’t followed back and you’d like me to leave a comment and I’ll make sure we’re hooked up.

The more I post about Twitter the more I anticipate I’ll look either incredibly prescient about its massive success throughout the 2010s and beyond or how incredibly gullible I’ll look for posting so much useless garbage about a trivial time waster…we’ll see whether I’ll still be blowing my own trumpet this time next year, eh?