As some of you may already know the Blog Workers Industrial Union, now 121 members strong, has started taking action on Twitter. Our first public effort has been health care reform, which we advocated for via a simple bot that is publicizing the October 20th Rally at the Pennsylvania capital of Harrisburg.
I've been stuck at home the last few days, facing what appears to be a mild case of H1N1, and I've busied myself with further programming. We're going to be doing a jotter style report on Kossacks and their efforts on Twitter, and we've actually received the twitter account to use for this purpose. I just finished up a first run of a report using the Grader.com tool to rank Union members' effectiveness.
This stuff is raw. I mean I hit wq! in vi, typed "perl shit", pressed enter, and this is what came out. You can tell I was getting a little frustrated with the coding by the name the temporary file received :-)
As I said, it's raw. I picked the Twitter Grader because Progressive engine of destruction The Fake Joe Biden mentioned it. I'm not even sure if this is the right way to rank folks, but it's what was handy today when I got the urge to bash some text around. I'm open to alternative suggestions but without a darned good reason I'll probably stick to this one ...
The script provides a link to the actual report if you want to dig in, it lists the count of followers and following, and then it provides a 'grade'. They're coy about how the actual grading is done so people don't game the system.
If you're curious about your rank just follow one of the links below and you'll see where you can enter your own Twitter name. If you'd like to be part of the daily contest of wills to rule the Progressive Twittersphere I'd strongly suggest you follow the Blog Workers Industrial Union & Benevolent Society Twitter account, as this is the only way to get your hat in the ring.
kateloving Following: 2287 Followers: 2190 Grade: 99
benfishel Following: 3077 Followers: 2819 Grade: 99
shayera Following: 1279 Followers: 1079 Grade: 98
moody_loner Following: 411 Followers: 557 Grade: 96
gwbertlady Following: 1684 Followers: 1040 Grade: 96
boadiceatx Following: 981 Followers: 633 Grade: 96
xxdr_zombiexx Following: 225 Followers: 432 Grade: 95
justme2 Following: 980 Followers: 540 Grade: 95
strandedwind Following: 286 Followers: 318 Grade: 94
oxyconservative Following: 20 Followers: 260 Grade: 94
andsarah2 Following: 485 Followers: 344 Grade: 94
visitoranna Following: 979 Followers: 355 Grade: 92
1whoknu Following: 433 Followers: 250 Grade: 92
johnmartinfict Following: 1106 Followers: 289 Grade: 91
spathiphyllum Following: 305 Followers: 201 Grade: 90
mrsnarkypants Following: 227 Followers: 168 Grade: 90
andiwhiteberry Following: 452 Followers: 210 Grade: 90
ravenlore Following: 107 Followers: 123 Grade: 89
kitsapriver Following: 164 Followers: 158 Grade: 89
spedwybabs Following: 183 Followers: 135 Grade: 88
boatsie Following: 381 Followers: 135 Grade: 87
progressive_dan Following: 157 Followers: 117 Grade: 86
mandahl Following: 258 Followers: 131 Grade: 86
johnthep2009 Following: 1789 Followers: 172 Grade: 86
ggi_management Following: 267 Followers: 118 Grade: 85
joeltwright Following: 67 Followers: 100 Grade: 84
micaht0078 Following: 66 Followers: 69 Grade: 83
shermanesqe Following: 124 Followers: 78 Grade: 82
jlms_qkw Following: 137 Followers: 82 Grade: 82
tiarachel Following: 184 Followers: 87 Grade: 81
liberaltwit Following: 70 Followers: 57 Grade: 78
joanvt Following: 14 Followers: 48 Grade: 78
joshuabones296 Following: 862 Followers: 67 Grade: 77
minidriver Following: 9 Followers: 9 Grade: 7
reidkrell Following: 50 Followers: 34 Grade: 69
progressivepsa Following: 103 Followers: 34 Grade: 69
msgeek93 Following: 30 Followers: 31 Grade: 68
lesweiler Following: 51 Followers: 32 Grade: 67
kitsapcharles Following: 53 Followers: 32 Grade: 67
txrevolutionary Following: 22 Followers: 27 Grade: 65
janna_p Following: 71 Followers: 28 Grade: 65
rogneidheath Following: 91 Followers: 30 Grade: 64
mcm04103 Following: 39 Followers: 47 Grade: 62
crazybaconlady Following: 86 Followers: 53 Grade: 60
wiganp Following: 51 Followers: 21 Grade: 57
polisigh1 Following: 41 Followers: 21 Grade: 57
rogneidtn Following: 48 Followers: 38 Grade: 55
chemlabgoddess Following: 10 Followers: 13 Grade: 53
stevenwag Following: 26 Followers: 31 Grade: 51
peacetik Following: 51 Followers: 16 Grade: 51
comradekristina Following: 9 Followers: 7 Grade: 5
papicek Following: 8 Followers: 11 Grade: 49
johntehan Following: 9 Followers: 11 Grade: 49
glendaw271 Following: 12 Followers: 13 Grade: 49
pss959 Following: 1 Followers: 8 Grade: 47
kittycago Following: 9 Followers: 7 Grade: 42
ajincamden Following: 5 Followers: 7 Grade: 40
mom4jazz Following: 3 Followers: 5 Grade: 37
alabamabluedot Following: 3 Followers: 4 Grade:37
ilovecheeseblt Following: 3 Followers: 4 Grade:34
jacques415 Following: 4 Followers: 4 Grade: 32
govib Following: 3 Followers: 3 Grade: 32
sarksvemes Following: 5 Followers: 5 Grade: 3
trs63 Following: 3 Followers: 3 Grade: 29
savannah_leighh Following: 3 Followers: 3 Grade: 29
ktsayshi Following: 44 Followers: 14 Grade: 23
plutotoo Following: 4 Followers: 0 Grade: 17
magickcatnip Following: 4 Followers: 0 Grade: 17
markddo Following: 4 Followers: 3 Grade: 0