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Life & fun · December 7, 2011

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Early Adopter cred from your Twitter & Facebook IDs

Your Early Nerd Score is a measure of how much of an early adopter you are. Low user-ids have always been a key piece of geek cred. Your score is just your percentile for each service, note that it may change over time as our data set grows. Who made Early Nerd This is a quick hack by pkamali (@peeter on Twitter) and feldmanr (@ronfeldman on Twitter).

Early Adopter cred from your Twitter & Facebook IDs launched on December 7, 2011 with 12 votes, #48 of 254 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches.

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In plain words

Early Nerd Score calculates how early someone joined Twitter and Facebook by comparing their user ID against others on each platform. The tool generates a percentile ranking for each service, showing early adopter status—a traditional measure of geek credibility. Users can see how their score ranks relative to other users, though the percentile may shift as the dataset expands over time.

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