Your script should help nicely with trying to figure out who is spammy.  I just wrote a blog about the Twitter Influene Ratio - exactly what you've done with your script.  Nice.

As i said before ... great stuff

LOVE IT! The only complaint is the black text on top of the red bar--it really needs to be white to be able to read it better.

I thought this was a great idea at first, but this script is a bit unfair.

My profile indicates I'm a newbie/social climber while I have a ratio of 1.09. Even though it's closer to 1:1 (socially healthy) than 2:1.

See for yourself: http://twitter.com/nikolai35

Nicolas, I would assume most people could easily deduce that you aren't a spammer--that's what this script is designed to do--weed out the spammers. I wouldn't worry if you aren't the perfect status according to the script. We trust you...

I think the next step is to get this integrated into gmail, so when you get a new notification email, it grabs the ratio and notifies you of what they are, even before you have to click over.

Also the script should probably be disabled for:
http://twitter.com/home

:)

Great script! Thanks for sharing. This is especially useful for up-and coming people on Twitter that are gaining popularity and would like to quickly decide who to follow and who to simply ignore.

I don't like the idea of this.

First off when you are brand new and if you know NOBODY you will obviously be a "spammer" if you try and add many people. But why? Isn't that the equivalence of someone moving to a new town trying to make friends?

Following / not following purely based on stats is ridiculous IMO. A nice person is a nice person.

IF IF IF you are going to use this I think unitl someone has 500 followers it's not accurate. They are just getting "going" and there stats will be reflect that in the beginning.

If not... How will anyone EVER know they exist? I mean unless you run a big blog or are a media personality you have to introduce yourself to people; that is done by following them.

If not you'll forever have just a few friends that chat back and forth; if that is the case why not just stick with MSN?

I guess I'm just not a big fan of stereotypes and this is well just that... Everyone is different and everyone has a different style.

Just my $.02 :D

I agree with Corvida. As of today I've got 198 followers and I'm following 297.

I check every bio of those I follow, to make sure they haven't got suspended accounts or are just flat out bizarre.

I research the followers of other respectable people to find like minded folks.

By your script I would be a spammer.

I don't sell anything so that brings up the problem of generalizing in this manner.

It would be much more valuable if you took other factors into consideration, such as matching the items mentioned in the bio to qualities I am seeking -- then indicating a relevance percentage. At present what you have is discriminatory.

If you want to label spammers, which in and of itself would be a valuable service, you could also scrape the person's last 25-50 tweets to see if they're just selling stuff and there's no particular value to their posts.

It's unfair to attach a negative label to people who are trying to build a decent list of both followers and those they wish to follow.

If I spend four hours looking for people I want to follow I might come up with 50. Of those, maybe 30 will reciprocate -- either automatically or taking the time to check me out. Using this percentage, my aggressiveness will eventually earn me "spammer" because my ratio will continue to drop -- even though I may be putting out good info to people and am otherwise a decent tweep.

Okay, rant over.

I just wish you'd reconsider this and/or add features as mentioned above.

Sometime, software can be harmful when that was not the intention.

Thanks.

Hey. I quite like this in a fun kinda way. Not sure it'll have real value, as others have said, there's a lot more to defining the value of a twitterer than simply this ratio, however, I think it gives a good visual cue as to what type of twitterer they are, and it's a good starting point. I'm a newbie, by your standards, but I'm ok with that (most probably because I am pretty much a twitter newbie. hehe

Not sure if it's the done thing, but my twitter name is: @cameronolivier.

Cam

One other thing, while I think of it - I'd presume actual numbers of followers (and possibly start-date) should factor in here somehow. But your categories may need to change. Someone with an equal rating, but having < 10 friends is most probably new, although 'newbie' should be seen by start-date quite easily. social climber might be someone who's started recently but has quite a few followers - how many people they follow is kind of up to them :)

I do agree that people following hundreds of others, with very little friends is suspicious.

Just some ideas, if you ever update the script, might be nice to include :)

Very cool tool, and thanks for the heads up..

Great man, I'm new in Twitter World this is exactly what I need it.

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