Hubspot's Twitter Grader: Quick Explanation of Tools and Features
Posted by Jason Hughes on Tue, Jan 18, 2011 @ 11:57 PM
What is Twitter Grader?
According to Hubspot:
“Twitter Grader is a free tool that allows you to check the power of your twitter profile compared to millions of other users that have been graded.”
So basically, you go to twittergrader.com, enter your Twitter username, and this free tool spits out a grade from 0 to 100 as well as a ranking compared to all other users.
How Does it Determine the Grade?
Hubspot’s careful about disclosing their methodology, but there are several factors they’ve said affect the user’s grade such as:
- Number of Followers
- Power of Followers
- Updates (Tweets)
- Update Recency
- Follower/Following Ratio
- Engagement (retweets, mentions, and by whom)
What other tools and features does Twitter Grader offer?
Here’s a quick list of the other free tools at Twittergrader.com:
- Quick follower check- type any twitter username to find if they’re following you.
- Follower history graph-shows your change in followers over time. One cool feature is that you can compare your growth with anyone else on twitter to compare growth.
- Who Tweets You?- see who mentions you on Twitter.
- Tweeting Since- this feature shows Twitter users that started with Twitter the same time as you.
- Tweet Snip- this cool feature is designed to make tweeting easier. By highlighting a portion of text on a site and dragging it to the Tweet Snip bookmark, the tool will find the twitter account associated with the site you’re on, plus import the text into a tweet and even shorten the URL and alter the wordage for max use of characters. It’s drag and click tweeting….pretty sweet!
- Tweet it button builder-Import this button on your site to get more retweets.
- Create Groups- Twitter Grader gives you the ability to organize followers into custom groups.
- Badge- There are two cool badges you can place on your site: one shows number of followers, and the other shows your twitter grade.
As you can see, Twitter Grader packs quite a punch for a free tool. If you have any other questions about Twitter Grader, or how to use twitter to grow your brand or get more leads, please feel free to contact us, the best Hubspot/Inbound Marketing Coaches on the planet. In the meantime, happy tweeting!