Our Social Media Power 100 Chart for September 2013 is now available. We've made a few changes to the way we organize the rankings, including adding a new metric called T-Buzz, along with adding new venues.
Anyone who follows the SMP 200 has probably figured out that we're constantly tweaking our algorithm and coming up with new ways to measure things like engagement, fan reach and community size. This month's SMP 100 puts more emphasis on follower counts than ever before. But don't worry, we haven't given up on trying to measure engagement — in fact, we have a new metric this month called T-Buzz.
T-Buzz is a way to measure a venue's total mentions on Twitter (both from its own posts and that of fans and artists) and then weigh that number against total community size. Confused? Well, just think of it like this — a high T-Buzz score means a higher percentage of users are talking about a venue online and doing things like sharing photos and retweeting posts. It's a way to measure the conversation going on within a community, based on a scale of 1-10 with 10 being the highest score possible.
Click here to see the updated September 2013 Social Media Power 100 Chart.