Drag and drop the widget into one of the widget areas such as the Header or Sidebar and configure the desired social media service(s).
Description
The social influence widget was designed to help you establish credibility with your growing readership. It integrates with both Twitter and Facebook Fan Pages.
If you are in the process of building your online readership, this is an important visual indicator for both you and your audience. You can create and measure goals based on this number. Your audience will be able to identify if you are a new, up-and-coming publisher and help you get the word out. Or, if you have a large number of followers, then new readers will be able to ascertain a degree of credibility with your work.
The widget makes a call to Twitter & Facebook once a day to fetch current numbers, then it uses a saved version of these values for 24 hours. This is due to restrictions imposed by Twitter and Facebook.
Available Settings
Enter your twitter username, do not include the @ sign prefix.
Enter the name of your Facebook fan page account.
Display
Select one of the following settings:
- Individual Count – Shows the individual follower counts for each social network.
- Total Influence – Shows one number representing the sum of all social network follower counts.
- Both – Shows the Total Influence sum and the individual follower counts for configured social networks.
Previous Versions
The original version of this widget also included support for Google’s FeedBurner service, but support was removed when Google made changes to it’s offering.