Hype Machine Launches Twitter Music Chart For Real-Time Music Ranking AweSmNess

• Let’s face it, besides #muscimondays, finding music and tracking popular tracks on Twitter (or online in general) has been quite the daunting task. The Billboard 100 moves too slow these days (not to mention sucks), Pandora doesn’t always feed me the tracks I want to hear and my personal favorite, HypeMachine, can eat a significant amount of time to find music I’m going to download (i mean, buy). No more, now that the guys behind HypeMachine have created the Twitter Music Chart to begin the real-time Billboard 100 based on Twitter and powered by BackType.

How does it work?

The application monitors Twitter for links pointing to tracks on the Hype Machine.  Each of those tweets is given a number of points based on the number of followers (and the ratio of friends & followers) that person has. Finally, all the points are added up to figure out which tracks are tweeted by either the most influential twitter users, or by the largest group.  Simply tweet a link to any track on the Hype Machine and it will alter that track’s position in the chart. You can also monitor your Twitter Music Chart influence by checking how many points you tweet is worth for promoting a song up the charts. There is even a leaderboard
for the most influential users.

How is the Twitter user score determined?

Here is the actual formula:

round(( 1/3 * (twitter_followers / 10) ^ 0.5 ) * (twitter_followers / twitter_friends) * 10), 2)

The follower/friends ratio in this case has a floor of 0.25 and a ceiling of 3.0 to limit certain extremes.

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