@ckieff @jcnork @edwebb @bensawyer @lastchancect @ctnewsjunkie @sweetbitters @mad1421 @americanforum @jonathanpelto

Klout is an interesting website. They measure people’s influence on Twitter. Recently, I checked my Klout score, and it listed the people above as people that either influence me or that I influence. I found it an interesting list and decided to use it for this week’s Follow Friday blog post.

Seeing @ckieff, @jcnork, and @lastchancect at the top of the list was no surprise to me. They often tweet things I like to retweet. @ckieff and I run into each other a lot at online marketing related events. @jcnork and I are working together on things like GoogleHaven and Social Web Week. @lastchancect posts lots of important messages about dogs needing to find a home which I like to retweet.

@edwebb and @bensawyer came as a bit of a surprise, since I only vaguely recognize their names.

For people that I influence, I was glad to see @ctnewsjunkie and @jonathanpelto. They are friends involved in different aspects of the political scene in Connecticut and I have a lot of respect for what both of them write.

@sweetbitters @mad1421 and @americanforum also came as surprises to me and it is interesting to look at their tweetstreams.

With that, I decided to explore things a little bit further. Who influences the people that influence me? Who is influenced by people that I influence? I did a little cutting and pasting and used GraphViz to create a graphic of this. As a future step, I may try to build something using the Klout API to create even more interesting graphs.

Klout Graph, originally uploaded by Aldon.

Note: This graph is as of data from July 2, 2010. Given the dynamic nature of the data, it is likely to look much different next time it is generated.