Sometimes a brand needs to consider how they measure the quality of their online mentions - quantitative analysis of a campaign just isn't enough. It's something that was debated at length at the London MeasurementCamp working group this morning. As there's no such thing as AEV for mentions on Twitter, one way you can do it is to use Twitter Grader. At this morning's session we talked about how to segment tiers of online coverage of a story, and how, on Twitter, Twitter Grader can be used to do this.
For example, your story is picked up by 50 people on Twitter, 20 of which are tier one (top notch), the rest tier two (little reach or influence). So as a measure, you'd look to improve how many tier one Twitter mentions you get for the next story. To give yourself a target that can be measured. It's applying traditional segmentation to the Twitterspere.
Recently Stephen Waddington started a PR league table of Twitter influence. My how things change in a few months.
Here is an up to date top 10 for the PR industry on Twitter, which I've compiled using Twitter Grader. I'll leave a top 100 to someone else. Watch our for Peter Hay at PR Week who may be working on something bigger also. Rank in brackets is the person's old position.
Rank % Name, company
1. (1) 99.98 @jangles, Bond-i
2. (2) 99.96 @drewb, Hotwire (me)
4. (13) 99.94 @vikkichowney, Six Degrees
3. (3) 99.93 @stedavies, 3W PR
And there's more...
=12. (19) 99.5 @jedhallam, Wolfstar
=12. (38) 99.5 @robbrown, Staniforth
=12. 99.5 @katiemoffat, freelance
=17. (14) 99.3 @simoncollister, Weber Shandwick
=12. (38) 99.5 @robbrown, Staniforth
=12. 99.5 @katiemoffat, freelance
=17. (14) 99.3 @simoncollister, Weber Shandwick
- I'll expand on this list and try to refresh it over time, but let me know what you / I could add in. Some of the rankings I know will be wrong, so let me know and I'll fix.
Everyone loves a list ;)
Would be interesting to see how people compared to last time (if you fancy re-doing the post with old grades in brackets juist for me because I am too lazy to look it up that is :-p
Posted by: Becky McMichael | February 18, 2009 at 10:09 PM
*ahem*
http://twitter.grader.com/robingrant
Posted by: Robin Grant | February 18, 2009 at 10:24 PM
and some more from We Are Social:
http://twitter.grader.com/qwghlm
http://twitter.grader.com/deliciousmedia
http://twitter.grader.com/metoo
http://twitter.grader.com/wearesocial
Posted by: Robin Grant | February 18, 2009 at 10:33 PM
Becky, done :)
Robin, didn't think you are a PR person / agency are you? If you were a PR person you'd be in there at 12. Happy to include conversation agencies if that's in PR. (I might revert to a PR Week league table if it gets too blurry)
Posted by: Drew | February 18, 2009 at 10:34 PM
coughs too
http://twitter.grader.com/bmcmichael although prob won't make top 20 for v long !
Posted by: Becky McMichael | February 18, 2009 at 10:34 PM