Interface to the TunkRank API. TunkRank is a tool that measures a person's influence on Twitter by looking at how much attention your followers can actually give you. You can read more here.

The TunkRank API supports two main methods: score and refresh. The gem includes two convenience methods for returning just the raw score or just the ranking.

require 'tunkrank'
TunkRank.score('ealdent')
TunkRank.raw_score('ealdent')  # => 6.87
TunkRank.ranking('ealdent')    # => 21
TunkRank.refresh('ealdent')

The result of the score method is a Hash that looks like the following

{
  "twitter_user" => {
    "ranking" => 21,
    "raw_tunkrank_score" => 6.87,
    "tunkrank_computed_at" => "2010-03-25T00:20:13Z",
    "num_followers" => 575,
    "num_friends" => 219,
    "twitter_id" => 8454562,
    "screen_name" => "ealdent"
  }
}

Copyright (c) 2010 Jason Adams. See LICENSE for details.