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The clean twitter API has made sure that a couple of  third party applications measuring the importance of a person or his tweets come up everyday. Applications like Klout have gone on to analyze like your influencer’s and who you influence the most. I have written no code to analyze the importance of tweet but I have thought of the factors which can be thought of as influencing weight of a tweet.

• It is the power of every individual tweets which has to be calculated and the the power of the tweet-er. An average can be later found out to find the influence of the person.
• The number of followers you have is important but not the most important factor for sure.
• Your followers who are following less than 500 people is a much more important factor.
• From among these people considered how many of your followers are active on twitter (in two way communication).
• How many times a tweet got retweeted is a very effective measure of a tweet’s importance.
• How many times the tweet got retweeted, writing RT @… manually can be even more important.
• One very complex factor which I have come up with is the visibility of tweets. I feel, at any point a person looks at the last 10-15 tweets and the tweets directed towards him. So, if we can device a way where we can find out for how much time was a tweet visible among the top ten tweet entries on any of your followers wall and  whether the follower came online during that while or not can be an important metric. Whether the follower came online is a difficult parameter to calculate.It is however possible to check of the follower tweeted during the while (If he/she has tweeted, it surely means, he/she has come online).
• If we can measure how many people have replied to a particular tweet, the metric can be of immense importance.

These are some thoughts which I have had during the last few days about measuring the importance of a particular tweet. I would try and put up more as I think about this more and more. I am not sure, if any application yet calculates all the metrics mentioned by me but in the future I expect something on these lines. I would like people to go through a brilliant post by Avinash Kaushik which made me think about this post.

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