Mission Statement
Let’s face it, convincing your analog friends to join Twitter is an uphill ride on Lame Street. I’ve always depended on the tweets of strangers, and I plan on reviewing the strangest right here on Finer Flings.
The criteria for final judgment has been painstakingly researched by an infinite number of chimps speed reading through a sea of self-promotion to find those who only tweet what they eat when they take a beat to meet my expectations.
Each featured Twitterati will be reviewed according to five elements.
News deals with the amount of information they traffic. Are they interesting? Personal information doesn’t count, I’m looking for information that can be used by the masses. High scorers in this category are regulars @CNNs.
Humor is pretty self explanatory. Do they bring the funny? Do they get the funny?
Interaction is scored based how well they take part in the community. Interactors have a solid blend of broadcast and @ reply messages. They are both crowd sourcers and crowd sourcees alike.
Accessibility is a score of specialization. Someone who is a “maven” of ostrich breeding habits may be interesting to…ostriches…but would score low in accessibility. High scores here mean their tweets have some range,
Bacon is a term that is very similar to spam. I use bacon here because if you do follow the person, you are asking for said spam–which makes in bacon. Meat analogies confuse me too. High scores in the bacon category mean that the twitterer is all about pushing brands and often directs you to a (their) website.
Each category is scored out of ten. The final score is a complicated equation that will probably mean little to you.
(N+H+((A+I)/2)-B)/25
The value in this site is in the review, not the number. Some people don’t mind self-promotion, others hate it. Some don’t like @ replies consuming their feed, others won’t follow anyone who doesn’t return their textual calls. Some want to be entertained while others just want the facts. I’ll break the tweets down, you can put them back together. Thank’s for coming.
