Classify Twitter Users with Greasemonkey

Inspired by a blog post by Michael Klier I just created my own little greasemonkey script.

What's it about? Evan Prodromou recently came up with a nice scale to quickly decide who's worth to follow back or should be blocked at twitter. Here's what he wrote:

new scale: 1:5 = twittercaster, 1:2 = notable, 1:1 socially healthy, 2:1 newbie or social climber, 5:1 twitter spammer.

Because my math sucks and I like visual clues, I wanted a way to quickly see how a users scores on that scale. My greasemonkey script does just that. It adds a colored bar at the very top of each twitter user page, telling you the classification:

Twitter User Classification

You can download Twitter User Classify over at userscripts.org.

Let me know what you think of it in the comments here, please.

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Posted on Friday April the 25th, 2008 (3 weeks ago).

Comments

1
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.
2008-04-25 04:59:11
2
As i said before ... great stuff
2008-04-25 09:25:09
3
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.
2008-04-26 19:59:27
4
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
2008-04-27 03:17:52
5
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...
2008-04-28 02:18:19
John Adams
6
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.
2008-04-28 17:02:08
7
Also the script should probably be disabled for:
http://twitter.com/home

:)
2008-04-28 17:09:58
8
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.
2008-04-30 20:37:01
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