Sverve: Taking The Credit

Some readers here may well remember my comment about the social web site Sverve, where I had read a post on their blog and made a few suggestions for how to improve the site. Or, at least, the comment that measuring a person’s social rank by just using Facebook and Twitter alongside Sverve does not give an adequate picture of how active or popular they are on the Internet. Well, it seems that, despite the fact that my well intentioned comment was suppressed, someone took notice of it. Or perhaps, not to blow my trumpet, they had planned this long in advance and I was jumping the gun on their big announcement.

Sverve has now incorporated the followers on Google Plus – as well as Instagram – in their social ranking. Well, almost. It seems as if either their coding isn’t quite up to the mark or they don’t have the right permissions from Google yet.

They have managed to include Google Plus, as you can see, but only the number of people their users follow, not how many follow them. My own ranking, if they had done it properly, would shoot up in the air – well, it would be better, put it that way – since I have over three thousand six hundred followers there. But, since it isn’t included, since there is a problem, my ranking hasn’t changed at all.

Not, in the end, that it makes a great deal of difference: there has been a marked lack of good offers over the last few months. You could almost gain the impression that the site has died a death, with very few marketers using it to promote their wares, to sell their products. Perhaps because the social ranking is still so bad? I mean, where is Blogger, where is StumbleUpon, where is LinkedIn or Tumblr (I have over seventeen thousand followers there) and many, many others? How can you judge to social importance of an individual on the Internet by just taking a few select figures rather than the using whole picture?

Still, I can rest on my laurels for a while and believe, even without gaining any credit, that perhaps my little suggestion made a small difference, that perhaps someone there took my advice.

Love & Kisses, Viki.

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