Filed under: Web services, Twitter
Third-party services have been experimenting with various ways of measuring Twitter reputation for some time now, but it turns out that Twitter has its own internal scoring system, and every user has an official reputation score. Twitter hasn't made the algorithm -- or the scores themselves -- public, but former CEO Evan Williams told the Web 2.0 Summit that the scores factor into Twitter's "Who To Follow" feature. As for whether the scores will ever become public, Williams didn't rule it out. That would certainly be in keeping with Twitter's pattern of creating official services that duplicate anything popular third-party apps are doing. Twitter has previously launched its own ads, its own official apps, and most recently, its own analytics service. Reputation scores could be next.
[via Mashable]
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