Twifficiency

A 17-year old from Scotland has created a tool called “Twifficiency“. James Cunningham (@jamescun) most likely didn’t expect his application to hit the worldwide trending topics, but it did.

The tool gives you a % of efficiency based off of the number of people you follow, your follower number, how often you tweet, and how many tweets you read.

I’m not sure how he gets the “How many tweets you read” metric because Twitter doesn’t have a way to mark tweets as read/unread so it would be interesting to know how he’s coming up with that number, but other than that he has created an extremely simple and viral tool that people are actually using.

On his personal account he said:

FFS. Twifficiency is NOT a scam, it is not Phishing, it is not a password stealer. It doesn’t even log what your score is…

This is probably the reason that his site has not gone down yet. He’s not storing anything. And for his app name to be a trending topic is most likely generating a serious amount of traffic. He’s got an Adsense link ad on the top right of both the home page and calculate page which is going to generate a decent amount of income for the time being.

It’s not the most detailed app in the world but it’s pretty easy to use. If you don’t mind the auto-tweet that it sends out (and seriously, there are worse things in the world).

BTW, my Twifficiency score is 38%.