Have you ever been on Twitter and read something from a follower and thought, YES! that is awesome. Maybe they said something hilarious, maybe they did something cool, or perhaps they found a really good link. As a result of this, a natural reaction is to want to give them credit, award them in some way.

The other side of the coin is also true. When someone makes a bonehead mistake or a jackass comment, who doesn’t want to knock them down a peg?

Enter tweetpoint.me. I created tweetpoint to quantify these notions. By sending a twitter reply to both @tweetpoint and @someone you can award (or takeaway) a point to this person. The syntax is simple:

@tweetpoint @whitman +1 for creating tweetpoint.

@tweetpoint @whitman -1 because tweetpoint sucks.

You will notice that after the point value I have added context to the action. This will make watching the tweetpoint stream fun because we will see what cool things are earning points and, better yet, what dumbass happenings are losing points.

Visiting tweetpoint.me allows us to view the tweetpoint stream, see the leader board (aggregated by hour, day, week, or all time and optionally filtered by a location search), and see an individual Twitter user’s tweetpoint profile.

Essentially, tweetpoint is a subjective version of TwitterGrader. At tweetpoint.me your value as a Twitter user is evaluated based on the opinions of others rather than usage statistics.

Tags: points, tweetpoint, twitter, TwitterGrader

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