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April 30, 2009 • 8:23 pm 0

Get Daily Follower Changes Emailed With TwitApps

TwitApps is a small suite of Twitter tools built  just for you. So far their list of tools include:

Follows is a tool that keeps track of your followers and emails you daily, monthly, or weekly changes to them.

Getting started is really simple…

  1. Follow @ta_follows.
  2. Our bot will follow you back.
  3. When you get the follow notification send a direct message containing just the email address to which you want the emails to be sent.
  4. Add twitapps@googlemail.com to your address book or safe senders list to ensure you get the emails.

TwitApps Follows Email

Replies sends you hourly updates on when your username is mentioned on Twitter. This has it’s perks and cons, since Twitter already does this. However, when Twitter is going bonkers, having Replies as a backup is a good idea.

TwitApps Replies

Unlike Topify or a few other Twitter contact management apps, TwitApps currently does not allow you to reply or do anything via their email updates.

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April 30, 2009 • 12:43 pm 0

your.flowingdata – visualize data about yourself

your.flowingdata caught my eye as a site that would pull information out of your Twitter stream and give some new visualizations.  Close, but you have to feed it data.

We make tiny choices every day. Those choices become habits, and those habits to behaviors. your.flowingdata helps you see that it’s the little things in life that count by letting you collect data about yourself and your surroundings via Twitter.

your.flowingdata lets you record personal data with Twitter to both increase awareness and improve yourself.

It is a very insightful project that was worth mentioning.  Here is a sample flow they have in the article.

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April 30, 2009 • 11:28 am 0

Statuzer – a new Air client for Twitter

Statuzer is in early beta with some promising features:

# fully customisable color scheme
# MP3 Playing from song.ly and tra.kz
# Jamendo music search (free and legal)
# Displays twitpic images in tweet
# Youtube Thumbs
# Twitter search moving Trends
# Hashtags
# Fast display filter
# contacts groups
# followable Twitter searches
# notifications
# URLs preview
# image/webcam upload
# image/webcam upload to twitter profile image
# multi-account
# search filters
# short URLs (Twitter API)
# encode/decode MinUrl and TinyUrl

I did not load this yet, but our own Jeffisageek has done some early testing.  Let us know how it goes.

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April 29, 2009 • 10:19 am 0

TwitSeeker – find users by what they talk about

TwitSeeker uses a custom built tag cloud (per the developer comments) that allows you to find Twitterers based on not their profile, but what they have recently tweeted about.  The results are returned in a control panel format.

Now the good news, if you log into Twitter, you can then batch follow people, making this a following management tool also.

Before I published this I happened to catch a link out of the corner of my eye.  While the front page is so simple and clean, they took the thought to add an Advanced Search link where you can specify all sorts of extras like:

  • word inclusion and exclusion
  • phrases
  • distance from a place (in miles or kilometers)
  • Limits

Limits are to be specially noted since you can go so far as to say only show me results for someone that has tweeted about this at least XX amount of times.  This removes people that just pump links or never really talk about a topic.  You can also specify the maximum number of pages of people to return and some other facets.

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April 28, 2009 • 1:43 pm 0

Twiping – contact management tool (windows only)

Twiping started following me on Twitter so I had to see what it was about.  They offer a Windows only client that does some automated follower management abilities.  This is a Windows only application with the following description right from their website:

The process is fairly simple. Find someone influential in the field you are interested in. Use TwiPing to get a list of all of their followers. Apply a filter using keywords specific to your interest. This weeds out any of their followers you are not interested in. Select this batch of users and follow all of them with one click

That saved me a ton of typing.  They cache your followers to save api calls, which is nice.  You just need to remember to refresh on some basis.  There is a short video showing how it works that can be watched here.

While there is a lot of clicks and right click menus, I see what the tool is bringing to the table.  They are welcoming input on ideas and function, so I would let them know what areas they can streamline.

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April 27, 2009 • 12:19 pm 2

Twubs – hubs around hastags, feeds and videos

Twubs impressed me right away.  They do a good job describing themselves:

users can search for groups through hashtags used on Twitter.  After selecting groups they’re interested in, Twubs provides a central community-driven hub or “Twub” where they can access real time tweets, twitpics, and videos without having to click on an external link. Users can further personalize the Twub by creating a description for the hashtag related to the Twub and pull any content from any feed such as RSS or site such as Twitter, YouTube, Vimeo or twitpic into one collaborative environment

I went ahead and gave some test runs.  Wow, I wasn’t expecting what I got back.  Here are the steps I took:

  • I logged in as my Twitter account.  This was not requird, but we go the extra mile here
  • I did a search for #Admin2009.  This was a recent conference I presented at and imagined I should know the results.
  • I got back the tweets with the hash but also twitpics and link to videos (YouTube and Vimeo)

This is where it took a turn.  It also made a community based on the contributors (showing their Twitter accounts and avatars), showed possible other hashtags (including the dev conference that took place at the same time and place) and allowed for me to pull in RSS feeds that they missed.  I could then send this search to anything it seemed  and even grab embed code.  While all that sounds simple, in essence it becomes a hub for me to see data around an event.  This will compete with things like CoverItLive and TweetVisor in the long run.

I found I could add tags to the twub as other weblinks to make the page even more informative.  I could also brand the Twub with a logo and description.    I did get logged out once while working on the page for no reason, but I imagine that will be addressed soon enough.

Then all this could be tweeted (as one would expect) with the ability to attach pics and video.  If they can somehow bring this to a client, I will use it more.  I just do not find myself in web browsers as much for Twitter.  I need a living growing and breathing app that runs silently until needed.  Also some unread management marks would be awesome.

One more thing hit me later.  I do not see a way to save this as my Twub.  So I am unsure if all this work will show next time I come in.  I might be missing it, but that means most users will also.

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April 27, 2009 • 8:11 am 0

Twtrfrnd – follow the follower that followers your follower. Follow me?

Twtrfrnd apparently doesn’t like vowels but goes ahead and gives you a comparison about who follows you and if you should possibly follow them back based on who follows them also that you follow.  Follow me?  If not here is there excerpt:

A new follower? Should you follow back? Find out if you have common followings with them, and which people you follow that follow them.

So the idea is to see commonality in followers.  What they have coming makes the most sense since it will help automate follower management and groupings:

Coming soon: Log in and automatically get the common friends and indicators for all your newest followers, and sort your friends into groups

I ran this and found the results mixed with no tool to act on what I got back.  I think this will come along nicely, just give them a moment.

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April 24, 2009 • 1:38 pm 1

Twanalyst – analyze your profile and tweets then get judged

Twanalyst will take your last 100 tweets, coupled with your profile and make some rounded judgements (it says up to 30,000 variations) including the number of friends/followers you have accumulated.

The readability figure is based on the Automated Readability Index – this looks at the length of sentences and individual words you use to assess the complexity of the writing. A score between about 6 and 12 represents normal prose: below is simplistic and above is technical or obscure.

Ye, I went ahead and ran myself as usual.  The results are interesting and well  darn it, somewhat close, LOL.  The results of my Twanalysis are below:

Your Twitter personality (click to tweet it!)
Personality: renowned inquisitive aloof
Style: garrulous academic
ROBOT

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April 22, 2009 • 2:01 pm 0

TwitterPowerSearch – top Twitter trends in a slick interface

TwitterPowerSearch is a very sleek interface that shows trending in 6 colored boxes.  These built-in terms are editable and the colors changable.  A quick search feature is also located at the top.  What is interesting is seeing multiple search terms updating at once in a pleasing interface.

At the bottom of the pages below the search boxes is the past Twitter trends by the house for 24 hours and then daily for a week.  If you want to see what was hot the past few hours or days, this site has it ready to go.  I found it useful watching for hastags and some keywords around a recent event.

What is not good is I cannot act on these tweets coming across.  No ability to reply, retweet or anything at this point.  I know it is beta 1 and hope they have much more planned.

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April 22, 2009 • 9:55 am 0

InterTwitter – compare the number of friends & followers of two users

InterTwitter has a simple idea that works well if we were in a dating service on Twitter.  Ok, I am joking.  It is a good way to match compatibility between users and seeing how many friends and followers they have in common.

THE DRAWBACK: Due to Twitter limiting what is returned to them (per their site), you only get counts.  Not exact usernames!  When you run the tool is breaks down percents and gives the following output:

Share 38 following / Share 198 followers

Until they get the actual usernames and build around it, this is just a statisitical tool.

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