Friday, July 25, 2008

Top 30 FriendFeed Popularity (using Wired's Celebrity Meter)

JR Raphael wrote Estimate Your Level of Internet Fame at The Inquisitr today.

Wired released a Celebrity Meter (in beta) which rates your popularity based on Google's Social Graph API.

UPDATED: Fri 7/25/08 8:20 pm EDT to correct the Inquisitir author to JR Raphael. Also, added Kevin Rose at #4.

(Photo by unknown photographer)

Some people at FriendFeed (using only their FriendFeed page):
(1) Thomas Hawk 16,058
(2) Leo Laporte 14,126
(3) Veronica (Veronica Belmont) 12,956
(4) Kevin Rose 11,960
(5) Scott Beale 9,976
(6) Dave Winer 9,109
(7) Chris Pirillo 7,999
(8) mashable (Pete Cashmore) 7,285
(9) Steve Rubel 7,054
(10) Muhammad Saleem 6,829
(11) Fred Wilson 6,748
(12) J. Phil (Philip Glockner) 5,807
(13) Brian Solis 5,235
(14) Tamar Weinberg 5,126
(15) Robert Scoble 4,559
(16) Marshall Kirkpatrick 4,559
(17) Grant Bierman 4,507
(18) michael arrington 4,059
(19) Duncan Riley 3,968
(20) MG Siegler 3,869
(21) Jason Calacanis 3,840
(22) Ryne Nelson 3,592
(23) Allen Stern 3,314
(24) Russellreno (Russell Limprecht) 2,788
(25) Dobromir Hadzhiev 2,755
(26) Louis Gray 2,516
(27) mhmazidi (Hossein Mazidi) 2,502
(28) Morton Fox 2,198
(29) Paul Buchheit 2,165
(30) Chris Baskind 2,059
(31) Bret Taylor 2,034

Note #1: This is list in incomplete and was generated by hand.
Note #2: Loic Le Muir's page crashed the Celebrity Meter (which happened sometimes on other people too).

For comparison, our presidential candidates' MySpace pages
John McCain's MySpace page 4,613
Barack Obama's MySpace page 4,595
Hillary Clinton's MySpace page 4,226

Wired says: The Celebrity Meter scans URLs and scores internet fame based on:
- webpages linking to you
- your friends across social networks (just Twitter and MySpace for now)
- pages linking to your photos

(A) From Thomas Hawk's rating, it appears pages linking to photos are very important.

- Mitchell Tsai - CEO, Spiritual Business Companions : FriendFeed, LinkedIn, Facebook, Tribe.Net

4 comments:

Russell Reno Limprecht said...

Mitchell

My comments are here http://friendfeed.com/e/65de7091-fcca-4d05-8bdf-8a2ee224775a/Top-30-FriendFeed-Popularity-using-Wired-s/

Mitchell Tsai said...

Thanks Russell! My first comment...

Phil Glockner said...

Interesting little widget. Oddly, my number jumped by 200 since you tested it last. It is now floating around 6000. I've noticed some (not as dramatic) changes in other people's scores as well.

Mitchell Tsai said...

Thanks for the update J. Phil. Either (1) they're tweaking the algorithm (2) their webcrawler crawls differently all the time; e.g. pagecounts in google.com can vary by 25-100+% all the time - one day 25,000 next day 50,000.