We Are Social People

We all have those Facebook friends we look out for on our newsfeed, the ones who post great links or pictures that we can’t resist but sharing. Or the personal reviews of a film that have us booking our tickets to the same. Each of us knows which of our friends influence us in one [...]

PeerIndex, the award-winning platform for identifying influencers on the social Web, has upgraded it’s API interface to provide ‘topical PeerIndex’ scores and category filtering for developers in vertical markets including CRM, social media monitoring, twitter clients, sentiment scoring and crisis management.  This new upgrade provides users with category specific TPI or “topical index” data to [...]

Social influence specialist to power twitter league table for national paper This year has been a seminal one for normal citizens to make their mark on politics, business, arts and more – facilitated by social networks and Twitter in general. From the streets of Egypt to the high court in London; from the killing of [...]

Editor’s note: This post was written by our newest MarketMeSuite intern @Words2live.  There’s a lot of buzz going on around influence, so we tasked Andrea with going beyond the buzz and find out what’s really behind being “influential.” The last time I used the phrase “social influence” in a face-to-face conversation at a business luncheon [...]

Yesterday I received an e-mail announcement from the folks at Klout: “Today, I am excited to announce that 100 million people now have Klout Scores. While this is an exciting metric for our team, I think it’s important to recognize the broader implications of this milestone. One hundred million people with Klout Scores means that [...]

Amazon web services, meant to be one of the most powerful and safest hosts around when down again yesterday when lightening struck! Yes, lightening. Peer Index just published this message on their site: Other applications affected included Netflix, Foursquare, Hootsuite, and Reddit. All seem to be functioning normally now. MarketMeSuite’s CTO, Alan Hamlyn (@Wuup) explains [...]

MARKETMESUITE INTEGRATES PEERINDEX SOCIAL MEDIA INFLUENCE RANKINGS Social media marketing dashboard to use PeerIndex algorithmic influence rankings Social media marketing dashboard MarketMeSuite has signed a deal with PeerIndex, the service for identifying topic-specific influencers and experts on social media, to integrate influence rankings into its service. Under the deal, MarketMeSuite customers will be able to [...]

I’ve written about Klout before, but there’s another influence score out there that I’ve been hearing a lot about and it’s called “Peer Index.”  I spoke with Azheem Azhar, CEO of Peer Index to find out what makes Peer Index an important score to monitor. He told me that Peer Index is truly able to [...]