App: How Interesting Are You?

You will need a house full of animals if you expect to rank for this question.

Get your pet lover score here

Lots of ideas spinning around. Within the next week I hope to implement 2 key new features.

1) How interesting are your friends
This will allow users to choose 2 friends and randomly compare themselves to their friends for 3 random questions. It will show a 3×3 grid of scores with an overall ‘winner’. It will also create a permalink so you can share the results with your friends.

2) Become more interesting
This will allow you to specify topics you are currently learning about. Then you will be given a list of interests and the ability to view the Kosmix, MeeHive, Google News or Bing page for that interest. Each time you click on one of those links you earn a ‘learning point’. You can get a maximum of 10-20 learning points per day. And this would create a new ‘apprentice leaderboard’ to highlight diligent pupils.

App: How Interesting Are You?

I just added a new question to test how tech savvy you are. Check it out.

Forgetfulness is a common problem but how forgetful are you? Now, you can get a score and find your ranking among your fellow tweeters.

I still haven’t gotten any user feedback on tweeting ranks so I wrote a bit of code just do it and we can adjust if this isn’t something you guys are interested in.

Here are the first 2 tweets so far:

1) @dcfemella is currently the #21 ranked musician on Twitter with a score of 28. #HIAY

2) @AlbertEliasMGMT is currently the #5 ranked movie critic on Twitter with a score of 16. #HIAY

As you can tell, I’m also using the #HIAY hashtag to keep things condense.

Update: I’m only tweeting scores of 10+ in an attempt to not embarrass anyone by tweeting their 0-1 scores.

Now that we are getting a good number of scores I would love to start sharing significant events via tweets from @twtrank. At the same time, I don’t want to do this in a way that ends up being noise or completely irrelevant. I’m thinking about some of the following for potential tweet examples:

• @user just set a happiness record with a score of 125. The average happiness score is 18.80.
• 57 tweeters signed up for http://howinterestingareyou.com today.
• @user just submitted the 1,000th score on http://howinterestingareyou.com
• Tweeters with a >50 social media score record a -25% drunkenness on average.

Please let me know if you would be interested in following @twtrank if these are the types of tweets sent out. If so how many tweets do you think the max should be per hour.

Thanks for the feedback and happy tweeting!

Initially scores were very confusing. Maybe you scored a 20 on the ‘How happy are you?’ question and naturally assume you are a grinch. Little do you know, the average happiness score is 18.80 and 20 makes you above average.

Here is a screenshot showing the new average/max scores.

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