When Robert Scoble, lover of all things web, says something is lame, you know it must be really lame. And that’s what he’s saying about a new Yahoo site, Know Your Mojo! — and he’s right.
The site claims to tell you what kind of “social mojo” you possess by analyzing your tweets. It’s a very simple site, below the big “What’s Your Social Mojo?” question it asks you to put in your Twitter username. You then hit the submission button and it takes you through an animation of a series of pipes. You’re spit on on the other end with what kind of Twitter user you are. The only problem? It’s different just about every time you put in your user name.
Of the 16 different mojo possibilities, I’ve gotten 3 different ones on 4 attempts. Scoble notes similar results. So I don’t know what kind of analyzing it’s doing, but it doesn’t appear to work too well. Of course, that doesn’t really matter because what this is really about is advertising Yahoo’s new homepage. It makes that pretty clear on the results page that tells you to feed your “mojo” by checking out Yahoo’s site and adding content to it.
While all of that has actually nothing to do with Twitter, Yahoo clearly made a Twitter analyzer to take advantage of the viral nature of the service, hoping the masses would tweet out their results and get more people to visit the site, and then Yahoo’s homepage. Sadly, it will probably work, even if the analyzer itself doesn’t.
MG, you can get a twitter assessment over the phone for free if you @larrychiang me. This offer is good today only
Or just call me here at work cuz I am bored before I see “District 9″
Interesting idea and we will probably see more apps and sites like this one. Personally not worth looking at, but might provide some mild entertainment.
I too feel it is not so worthy but it can be used for fun’s sake. Random shuffling makes the assessment worse.
I still think it is pretty cool. I know it doesn’t work very well, but it still is pretty fun to do. The birds are pretty cute!
yes, the birds are cute.
Lol….
Did you try yours??
Here’s what I get everytime I try your twitter(Parislemon):
You are a: MatchMaker
Our proven scientific method has determined that you are a Matchmaker. You’re a whiz at linking people to the hottest bit.ly’s and tiny.url’s of the Twitter-sphere. You should have your own game show. Nice work out there.
Lol
I ran your name, MG. It said “We have no clue what he is because there is no scientific anything behind this other than a random generated message from a .txt file one of our former employees that we axed left on their dell laptop”
This may be news, but you guys don’t have to be totally negative about everything. Sometimes this stuff is just *gasp* fun. I put in my Twitter and it called me a “concierge.” Twice. It’s a pretty apt description of my feed, too.
Apparently I am a matchmaker. Good to know
I’m a cynical and grumpy dick who hates the world, I’m far from a best friend or someone with friends. What on earth is this, it clearly just guesses based on nothing.
Is it me or does the Mojo logo look like a raised middle finger (the extended J part)?
Yahoo now has subliminal messages in its logos?
ha! very true.
this is not quite as cute but a little more fun: http://twitchamp.com (not to mention offering its own “Mojo” index)
“You’re a busy tweeter and a genius at showing people all the best URLs around the Web”
Yes, those birds are damn cute.
If you click a link named “Twitter” at the bottom of the page, it goes not to front-page of Twitter but account settings.
Account settings?
Kind of a cool design.
tweetpsych.com is similar more basic in design and was first
You know I had an idea once. It was a “Jump to Conclusions” mat. You see, it would be this mat that you would put on the floor… and would have different CONCLUSIONS written on it that you could JUMP TO.
lol
+1
Classic!
We do something similar but are very serious about it. We tell you whom you should date (only registered user) by analyzing your tweets, followers and friends. Hopefully, you can get a consitent experience on our site when we are ready for the showtime.
Really cool design and animations !
sorry, but when i used this it came up with the same results almost every time and the answer was pretty accurate.
Well, I think instead of using this kind of application for getting information about the kind of twitter user you are, it is better to check the time you spend on twitter and the amount of followers you have on it which will give you a better idea and the best part of this will be the fact that you won’t get different results if you do this again
*facepalm*
The loading pipes on that did my head in, lol.
Apparently I’m a BFF and my blog account (which I use in comments here) is a concierge. I think that’s actually pretty good for both.
Just found a nice little glitch where if you click “try another name” very quickly after the result show up it gets stuck scrolling sideways until it hits the results side again.
Is there any kind of twitter user other than retard?
Yahoo is a company in decline. Nothing they do can or will catch fire because of this fact.
fun site.
I think there is some sort of mistake because I didn’t see a, “Marketing Assassin” or “Social Media Expert” and this seems like a giant group of Twitter users who are going to be pisssssssed!
It’s fun to play with.
Dude, you see, that’s the idea. Thanks for writing about this site on Tech Crunch. Well done!
hahaha !!!
I have over 47K tweets and it said I was a “lone wolf” and that I should use Twitter more. WTF?
Idea a bit similar to my site http://twittruth.com – the scrolling pipes are fun though.
I checked out http://twitttruth.com and added myself to it. See the results at http://twittrut...dennis_jernberg
It says I’m an Engager, meaning that most of my tweets are either responses or mentions (with a lot of retweets I might add. Not a Twitter “rockstar” yet, but I will be eventually…
I should add that the Yahoo “Mojo” thing is random in comparison. I use a lot of superior pages including http://twitter.grader.com and http;//twitalyzer.com
correction: http://twitalyzer.com
“When Robert Scoble, lover of all things web, says something is lame, you know it must be really lame.”
Uh…yea, either that or he’s doing an interview with a company who refused to be his sponsor. Read:
http://www.1938...read.php?t=7681
I tried out the new Yahoo homepage before this silly little “Twitter mojo” thing started. I wasn’t really all that impressed. Maybe that’s just because it’s in beta, though…
This mojo thing is pure BS… at least @unmasker gives “real” analysis of you by running your bio through a Bullshit Detector although some people I follow on Twitter were deeply upset at being sent to “twitter hell” for spewing BS in their bio.
Twitter Mojo = #EPICFAIL on the other hand I don´t really expect anything else from yahoo nowadays.
Folks, this is ALL about the data. Do you really want to tie your IP address with your Twitter account for Yahoo? Puh-leeze!
It doesn’t surprise me that you get different results every time. I get different results every time I search the same term with yahoo mail search
TwitChamp.com has been offering what we call Twitter “Mojo” since last spring. (Heck, it’s in our tagline!) Thanks for lifting, Yahooligan acquisition marketeers. Geez.
And only because of this article, I’m gonna try it right now LOL
Mojo was fun, but not much value to it, except for Yahoo anyway.
I am not sure I am going to do an article about it on my blog at RalphJustice.com though, althought it appears to be a big hit, or maybe I will at that.
The Mojo service of Yahoo is cool , even if it doesn`t have much use.
Works for me. It’s accurate when you are using Twitter in mostly one way. If you have “different identities” as a Twitter user, then it will say so. Of course, in the first case, it is pretty obvious who you are, even without the test. So it’s cool, but not much added value.