Mr. Kutcher at TechCrunch Disrupt. (flickr.com/kevinkrejci)

That's according to some number crunching from PeekYou, anyway. The company has debuted a new analytics service and, to promote the product, took the time to rank Twitter's top 1,000 most influential tech investors. CEO Michael Hussey explained the methodology to VentureBeat: 

Unlike Klout’s engagement rankings, PeekAnalytics’ rankings derive from “the quality of your audience,” Hussey said. If you multiply the amount of followers someone has by the amount of people in the followers’ networks, you get a “pull quotient,” by which you can rank audience quality.

Hm, okay.

A few more, well, interesting findings:

• Al Gore (Generation Investment) sits comfortably within the top ten, at number 8. Please, no jokes about the invention of the Internet.
• At number 16, Tim Ferriss (who, when not touting his fitness strategies, makes angel investments in companies like Twitter and Posterous) outranks hometown hero Fred Wilson, who comes in at 18.
• Kevin Rose, in his new home at Google Ventures, outranks both of them at 10.
• Anil Dash (no. 23) beats Michael Arrington (no. 27).
• There are only two women--newly minted Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer and Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior--in the top thirty. (Pause for sad trombone sound effect.)
• It does not appear that any of PeekYou's investors made the top thirty.

We propose a slightly different, more meatspace metric: How many people, on average, surround each investor at any given party? That's where, as the kids say, shit gets real.

Mr. Scott. (Twitter.com)

Earlier this week, the Internet was alarmed and disheartened to learn that a piddling Klout score can now cost you a job. (At least in certain segments of the marketing business, anyway.) But it's no secret that the service favors a tendency to self-promotion, and therefore driving up that number often has an invisible social cost. Digital jokester Tom Scott has now quantified that cost with Klouchebag, the self-proclaimed "standard for asshattery." Finally, the index Twitter has needed all along. 

The single-serve landing page is straightforward, explaining that, "Klouchebag measures how much of an asshat you are on Twitter." To learn whether you've been abusing the microblogging service, simply pop over and input your username. Metrics for terribleness include anger, retweet abuse, social apps, and English misuse. Not particularly scientific, but sounds about right--although Betabeat would argue that "look at this nice thing someone said about me" RTs should weigh extra heavily, if they don't already. Self-promoter extraordinaire and sex tape starlet Kim Kardashian earns a 75, "Quite Horrible," guilty on all charges but anger. Investor and Butterfly Effect headliner Ashton Kutcher escapes with a 45, "Mostly Noise," for abuse of both retweets and English.

Oh, and creator Tom Scott's score? 100, or "Prat of the year." Someone isn't happy with the amount of time he wastes on Twitter.

Smixx

Amazing new track from Corey Smith, aka Smixx, a musician, freelance iOS/WP7 developer and co-founder of Cardinal social music sharing platform. Smixx has been spinning tech raps for a while now, like "Developers feat. Steve Ballmer" and "One More Thing featuring Steve Jobs from WWDC 2011."

But start-ups are where Betabeat's heart really lies, so this track was the first to catch our attention. That, and @aplusk tweeted it out. Enjoy below the jump.

Takin' VC Money (Money Cash IPO's) by Smixx