Friday, May 27, 2011

Introducing new ranking rules on FollowFriday.com

Today we are releasing a major update of FollowFriday.com. The aim of the new rules is to maintain the purity of the FollowFriday Ranking and ensure that the ranking is free of manipulation and is a true reflection of those valuable recommendations made.

Now, each #followfriday tweet is worth a base score in the range of 0 to 150 points. This score is computed by an algorithm that semantically analyzes the tweet and measures the recommendation quality.

Each #followfriday recommendation is worth the computed base score divided by the number of users recommended in that tweet. So if you receive a #followfriday recommendation which only mentions you in the tweet, and correctly justifies why I should follow you, then you will get 150 points. If the tweet mentions two users you will each receive 75 points, and so on.

Well done #followfriday recommendations:
Special #FF to @heidicohen, that writes such great tips about Twitter.
#followfriday to @SocialBro, an innovative tool to manage and analyze Twitter communities.

Bad examples of #followfriday:
#followfriday to @followfriday_es because yes!
#FF to @SocialBro, @locafollow, @followfridaycom and @resonancers

Updated rules:
  • Each #followfriday tweet is worth a base score in the range of 0 to 150 points. This score is computed by an algorithm that semantically analyzes the tweet and measures the recommendation quality.
  • Each #followfriday recommendation is worth the computed base score divided by the number of users recommended in that tweet. So if you receive a followfriday recommendation which only mentions you in the tweet, and correctly justifies why I should follow you, then you will get 150 points. If the tweet mentions 2 users you will each receive 75 points, and so on.
  • If you recommend the same person repeatedly during the same week, only the first recommendation will be taken into account.
  • Users that make more than 50 recommendations won't be ranked. Their profiles will still be shown but they will not be ranked.
  • Self recommendations won't be taken into account.
  • Re-tweets won't be taken into account
  • Thank you tweets won't be taken into account
  • If you have a lot of accounts collaborating and recommending each other to promote their rankings then all of them will be banned.
  • Country and language rankings are computed based on our automatic geolocalization algorithms, if you want to be sure to appear in the correct rankings then login and edit your profile.
  • Protected accounts won't be ranked. Their profile will still be shown but they will not be ranked.
All of these rules are applied automatically, but we also have an anti-spam team that continually checks the rankings.

Ranking Rules

Now you can check if a recommendation #followfriday is valid for the FollowFriday Ranking and how much it is worth for each recommended user, according to the ranking rules with our new tool FFValidator

7 comments:

  1. Es una boludez los FAMOSOS no tienen porque participar,aparte ni devuelven las recomendaciones.Esto es una perdida de tiempo UN FRAUDE.

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  2. I completely agree with this new rules. #FF should be a clear and good way to know new people and not just a way to promote ourselves!

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  3. But who sees these scores?? I am completely baffled and confused!

    Thanks.

    Paula
    http://almost60really.com
    http://yourchildwillread.com

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  4. Sorry. I see that I just promoted myself. Sorry, @pabela .

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  5. Makes sense. Do I get a #ff for agreeing with your wisdom? ha ha

    http://twitter.com/scottbaptie

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  6. I think this is great! One of the things I was weary of at first with the #FF was how so many lumped tons of folks together and never personalized it. I adore your app for making it easier for me to personally remember the folks I WANT to #FF personally.
    Great job!

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  7. If you make it too difficult to understand people won't use it and just use their trending.

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