Twitter Karma allows you to get a view as to the reciprocity of the following and who is has posted recently, providing a tool to see who is participating or lurking or what (see link to creators post on it, below).
There are some folks, each with their own reason, who use social network tools to link up with as many folks as allowable. For me, each social network tool I use has a purpose that determines the number of connections, activity level, and shared material.
As you probably know, I am very particular as to who gets on my Twitter stream. As my Twitter profile says, ‘Birds of a feather twitter together – you’re in, or you’re out.’, meaning you need to participate to remain on my list and that I am quite careful in adding new folks, no matter how wonderful they are. Hence, my list of Tweeps is small.
I suppose it all points to karma. In as many days, that word has popped up twice in relation to folks participating in a social setting. I suppose it’s a ‘you reap what you sow’. And I think this concept is strongly related to the ‘me and mine’ of services such as Vox, Jaiku, and Twitter (we see it a lot in our research, too). It’s related to mutual grooming, to the building of trust, to social assurances.
Link [via Alex] Dossy’s Blog: Need help managing your Twitter Karma?:
So, what is it? The other day, @StephAgresta said, “Twitter desperately needs page navigation on followers / following list. Also sort functionality by type (reciprocated or not) is a must.” I suggested a simple mashup that implements this and started hacking on it. Three days later, it has enough functionality that Stephanie said she thinks I should release it publically.
