Hubspot’s Facebook Grader will tell you your “reach and authority” on Facebook. My score is 90/100.
The tool works by analyzing the number of friends you have, how important those friends are (whatever that means), how complete your profile is, how many wall posts you have and how many groups you belong to. It turns out I haven’t filled out much of my profile and there are some other things I’ve neglected to attend to, so I only get an A-.
I can live with that, but there are others out there who seem to take issue with how the site ranks people. French entrepreneur Loic Le Meur is “outraged” that it doesn’t take into account that he has a fan page, for example (I find fan pages obnoxious myself), and gave him a score of only 97.6. C’est la vie.
To sum up my opinion of this tool, it’s beyond useless. Not that I ever planned to, but the last thing I’ll ever do now is fill in more of my profile or join more groups. Maybe I can get that 90 down to 0.
The company has a similar tool for Twitter.
it even looks a little spooky..
Not bad I got a 89. Pretty much sums up my grade point average in high school
Is there a point to this? Or am I just disgruntled over my failed grade. I scored 45. Urgh.
sorry, your score is too low. I’ve revoked your commenting authority. Thanks for stopping by, but get the hell out. I’m trying to upgrade my readership, you know.
For some reason, I prefered Burger King’s view on the value of friends to this system… at least those friends could give you tangible… this is just more useless and irrelevant knowledge to fill our overwhealmed brains with.
Jon
http://2xStocks.com
Doubling my money, one stock at a time
Can I be your friend, Mike? I scored a 99.2. Clearly I’m VERY important, in spite of not being an internet celebrity.
Hah! I got a grade of 100 and a rank of #1. Higher than Arrington. Yes, that makes me the #1 sad man. See ya in Davos next week.
Actually, I’m not sure how their ranking is based, but it must be wrong. The grader tells me I have less friends than I actually have (it’s only off by a dozen, but that seems odd).
since i’m a “sad, sad person” i decided to try it just for kicks and i’m a clean, solid 100. ranked #1 out of all <1500 people, baby. heh.
as silly as their calculations may be, i don’t dispute the conclusion drawn from my ‘grade’ – that my facebook profile is a damn powerful tool. it’s my first and foremost resource, leagues beyond of anything else on the internet. yep.
ew, take out the ‘of.’ sorry it’s bugging the crap out of me
ok, you can stay.
Mike, I got a 99.2. I have promptly updated my Resume. Can I get the job now? As you see, I am a whiz!
The perfect way to boost the egos of Facebook fanatics..
http://www.MathewCarpenter.com
Sadly, everything is becoming a display of rank and status.
Hopefully, Web 3.0 will be more resistant to this obsessive egoism
That is really sad. I want to be graded on how I am as a fellow man and by my original content, not by how many groups I join or how influential my friends are. This is just awkward.
Didn’t score too high, eh?
There is a much more useful tool on the site for small business’. There is a site grader that measures, SEO, Google PageRank Meta Data, Site Structure, Heading Summary, Image Summary, Interior Page Analysis, Traffic Rank [According to to Alexa], Inbound Links and a few other things.It’s noot perfect but a good little tool for small sites.
The company responsible has had a runaway hit with the twitter grader app and are capitalizing on the exposure and attempting to extend the reach.
Hubspot is in the business of selling SEO friendly CRM tools and this is part of the overall marketing strategy from what I can tell.
Is it a reach, ya probably.
JP
Indeed, it’s a reach. I wish we had just a couple of more weeks to develop the app before the grand exposure.
But, such is life. That’s partly the price we pay for our “get it out there and try things out” approach. Everything we do starts out very, very basic. Every now and then, we figure out a path to something somewhat useful (like http://website.grader.com).
Hey don’t get me wrong I get why you did the app. I guess for me that FB and Twitter are two different animals. I use FB for friends and family as do most I think, so a grade I think is a bit frivolous.
Twitter grader I use to find like minded individuals that I want to connect with professionally.
Personal choice for me and again I like the site grader.
JP
somebody should just spoof up a new tool for Loic that gives him a 100 every time.
What do you expect? Europeans can be a little… sensitive:
http://www.abc..../14/2465936.htm
“somebody should just spoof up a new tool for Loic that gives him a 100 every time.”
Michael, you are just brilliant, and I don’t even mean like licking your ass.
Lemeur, looser
Haha, 98.5 is my score. I’m not sure why I’m higher than Arrington with 1482 Friends. Pretty neat though. -@yukai_chou
If you got closer to a 100 your post would’ve been positive… hilarious.
yeah, the cutoff for a positive review as a 95 for me. Just five more points and I would have thrown my integrity out the window.
Michael: Thanks for taking a peek at Facebook Grader. (We weren’t quite ready for this kind of attention yet, but hey, that’s the way it goes sometimes).
In any case, the intent of the app is to provide some of the same functionality that Twitter Grader does (which has been popular, and I might argue, even “useful”).
Examples:
1. Searching for users
2. Analysis on users by geographic location
3. Suggested friends based on profile
But, I totally understand if this is not your cup o’ tea. We’ll continue to work at it and see if we can bring it back closer to useless (instead of beyond useless).
just please do something about Loic’s score
Dont worry Dharmesh, many people will use it for fun. You shouldn’t take Arrington’s views too seriously. For all you know, this post could be just a premise to show how Arrington is superior to Loic Le Meu (search TC for the history between these two)
Man and i thought getting 79 was high!
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loser
Wow Micheal Arrington! You actually replied, i’m gonna get that 95. Just you wait and see!
I’ve increased to 85
HAHAHA!
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Well this site is just stepping over a boat load of stuff from the developers terms of use agreement.I wonder how long before it gets a CAD…
Like the idea, but this thing needs some serious work. I scored 89%, and there’s no way in the world I deserve to be a mere 1% behind the great Mike Arrington.
And lol at Scoble 100% ranking and 16th place seat!
As #27 on the list, i vow to do whatever it takes to knock Scoble down a peg!
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I think this is a funny story that really makes you think about what is important to some people. I also thought your first few comments on the French guy’s blog were appropriate (and ALSO funny) for the situation. However, I don’t understand why you kept commenting on there. He obviously wasn’t offended by what you said and it seemed like he liked the attention you were giving him (and attention is something he’s obviously used to if he has his own fan page).
To egg that guy on like that starts to make you look like the bad guy. I’m not saying you’re in the wrong. I’m just saying I’ve come to expect TechCrunch to be more journalistic and unbiased than most blogs and would hate to see that change.
it’s because we’re good friends. sorry if it wasn’t clear.
Oh my bad. Sorry to be so quick to judge.
Yeah, this whole ‘influence’ thing is a bit of a red herring IMHO, bright shiny object. Influence only comes from real trust, and trust is only built through integrity of actions.
http://twitter.com/karllong
Booyah…#1 on the elite page….for now
there is NOTHING like a cool good fight with Arrington I tell you. You have to live it to believe it.
They need a ranking system for perceived popularity vs. real popularity.. we could find out who is the most ill-informed acting individual… ultimate ego boosting event for us elitists
Michael,
Would you think this kind of grader is useless if it were part of a job site and could be used to measure the credibility of the data entered as part of the candidate’s resume?
We are doing something like this at jobsbyref.com.
Some reading material:
http://www.jobs...ility-score.php
http://www.jobs...ekers.php#step2
Even though I scored a ‘12′
I think Facebook and Twitter are two different communites. Facebook, if it is useful at all, is when you communicate with your close, personal friends.
You’re practically an outsider if you aggregate feeds into your newsfeed.
What’s even more of a clue that Facebook Grader is useless is the fact that Scoble scores a 100, yet he NEVER uses Facebook.
Twitter on the other hand is about exchanging content amongst the whole community. Anyone can follow anyone. Twitter is inclusive. Facebook isn’t.
It’s a great tool. I counted and got a mark of 87 out of 100. Nice!!!!!!
I am still LOL-ing about Michael’s comments about me having 100 by default to make me happy
looks nice, I will have a try!
this is super sad – twitter grader, facebook grader – how about life grader ? or love thy neighbour grader ? why is everyone so obsessed with how popular they are on the internet ?
Either shut up or come up with something superior.
Oh yeah! I came last!
1/100. Overall rank 2870/2870.
Who needs online “friends” who never talk to you anyway?
It’s a great tool!
Looks like I’ve got infinitely more friends than I thought I had (actual: 0, as per grader: 1). Everyone else FAIL…
17%
Must be doing something right
Telling us you despise this grading status software BUT nevertheless you scored 90 out of 100? Do you sometimes forget who you are Michael? You are confirming your status quo here. Then you tell us your score is worthless!
Your like a millionaire telling us money is not important. How can I not see this as subtle form of self gratification?
My overall rank is 8 and I’m still allowed to comment using Facebook Connect.
I think techcrunch needs a new commenting policy
True friends don’t need to be graded.
Real friends don’t need to be counted.
Friends are there when you need them.
You obviously got a sub-par score…. =[
The missing 10% corresponds to the 10% of the time you suck Mike.
I launched EgoGrader Beta 1.1 last year, it’s all you need: http://tinyurl.com/a32nku
JC.
“I bet those grapes are sour, anyway!”
Must suck to find out you’re not as important everywhere as you think you are, huh, Michael?
yes, it’s crushing.
It seems to me that online friends are more important that offline friends. I first thought that’s pathetic, but now I take it as an effect of globalization. In fact, I now think that converting an offline friend to an online friend is an important step in the relationship.
I like to use facebook to connect with people I know, and for everything else I can leave a comment here.
I quit checking twitter grader a while back when i realized a neophyte twitter user could beat your 90 score by just following the maximum 0f 2000. a few of them will auto-follow back, and he will have a 95 or score in one day without ever doing an tweet.
I have a score of 100 and am ranked number 4:
http://facebook...rader.com/elite
So you would think I’d like the site. WRONG…
It sucks. Their algorithm is complete BS. It’s hard to find my twitter account @pop17 on twitter.grader.com and their NYC elite have fewer followers than me combined.
5000 friends ? Yeah right !
How about deleting 4999 of them, and having a whopper every day for the next 15 months ? Yuck.
I don’t know what my score is at 1-100 since I didn’t get into the Facebook Elite tab, though a few people I know well such as Tamar, did.
Hi guys. I’m the developer of Facebook Grader (with the wisdom of Dharmesh backing me).
Although it’s sad to hear the tool described as “beyond useless” I can assure you that we have some very cool things planned to make Facebook Grader exciting.
Thanks for the coverage and keep coming back to update your grade, you’ll see lots of new features over the next weeks.
n@gga please! what excting “cool things” you could possibly plan, what is it going to suck me off or lower my taxes? gtfo of here.
+1
their is currently an obsessions with metrics and measuring things. Not a big fan of this or twitter grader however I take my hat off to the website grader as that has some use.
I wonder if perhaps a tool could be developed that measures “real world” relationships, low self esteem etc. now how could would that be be eh?
Imagine the conversation. “sorry darling, we’ll have to file for a divorce, our relationship is currently ranked at 36 out of 100, much less than all our friends and people we have never met”
Mike Ashworth
Blah, only a 16.
I pride myself in my 50, rather than a almost 5000 who I’d prolly hardly know.
Another pathetic Web 2.0 application …
Get REAL.
Maybe Mr. Arrington feels the way he does because he can’t see a strong connection between your FB Grader score and FB campaign ROI.
FB Grader is the type of tool that shouldn’t be used or judged in a vacuum. It’s meant to be used as part of a suite of tools in an holistic campaign. One example of this is to quickly see if changes in one part of your marketing program affect your FB presence.
A tiny piece of information, yes, but since this tool is available within the Hubspot suite, checking your FB score and tracking it over time is very fast and easy to do.
Ease of use is not the only issue, however. I have found that in the world of web analytics variety is key. being creative with a large variety of web marketing tools – including FB grader – is what makes a good marketer good.
If Mr. Arrington can’t think of a useful way to use FB Grader, then so be it. But that won’t stop me from adding it to my marketing toolbox.