Twitter Grader

The whispers started last week on Twitter.

“My Twitter grade is 72.”

“My Twitter grade is 85.”

“I’m not sure whether to be proud or embarrassed about my Twitter Grade of 92,” tweeted @ahockley.

“What is this Twitter Grade?” people started to ask.

Twitter Grader is a tool that evaluates your Twitter profile based on several different factors, including the number of followers you have, how powerful those followers in turn are, the pace of your Twitter updates, and the completeness of your profile.

Hubspot, an internet marketing company founded in 2006, is developing the Twitter Grader to draw users to their other internet marketing tools and services (although for most of us it’s just a bit of internet fun).  Twitter Grader is one of three free Grader services Hubspot is currently offering (the others are Website Grader and PressRelease Grader).

Twitter Grader is currently only in alpha, but today I received word (by tweet, of course) that @grader has reached 2000 followers and is planning to release a public beta next week.  I’m interested to see if they come up with anything more.  Getting a Twitter grade is fun, but it’s also interesting to me because many of my readers are on Twitter, and visit this blog from Twitter.  So, presumably if my Twitter grade is higher, my traffic is likely to be higher too.  That’s not the only reason I’m on Twitter, tweeples!  Don’t worry.  But it is something I like to track.

My Twitter grade?  Well, it was a 32 the first day I checked (it’s a percentile; it means I’m above 32 percent of Twitter users and below the rest) and now it’s up to a whopping 37.  And growing.