Friday, July 13, 2012

To klout or not to klout? The A.T. Rank of social media networks has all the answers

In keeping with the “More wood behind fewer arrows” mantra, I will be reducing my participation in a number of social media networks, effective immediately. Below I share my assessment of the networks I am familiar with, thus hoping to save you time and frustration.

[UPDATE] Oops! I forgot foursquare. This must be because I uninstalled it from my mobile over three months ago.

[UPDATE 2] Added LinkedIn (which I had omitted inadvertently) and foursquare to the table. HT to Bill Dollins for pointing out the LinkedIn omission.

SERVICE
A.T. RANK
WHAT'S GOING ON
Twitter
10
Where it's @
Facebook
8
Where everybody's @
Stellar
7
Useful if you tweak your stream right
LinkedIn
6
Recruiter's heaven, good for BI
Flickr
5
The faded dame of social media
Google+
3
Borrrring!
Pinterest
2
All you need to know about nailcare
Diaspora*
1
Nobody home
Pinwheel
0
Nobody home
foursquare
0
Populating 4sq's database for free
Klout
-1
FreeCreditReport.com for dunces

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