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August 31, 2009 • 3:14 pm 1

Brizzly: A Slick Web Client for Twitter

A beta web client for Twitter,  Brizzly makes good use of the best Twitter features and puts them all in one location. From drafting new tweets, multiple Twitter account support, to on the fly notifications of new DMs, Saved searches, and Groups, Brizzly is a pretty powerful web client. You’ll enjoy a quick overview of the latest trending topics on Twitter along with a quick synopsis on what that trending topic is and why it might be trending.

Brizzly also supports inline video embeds and unravels those shortened links, to ensure they’re going to someplace safe. The interface is clean and refreshing, not at all flashy. This is one Twitter client you won’t regret getting your hands on.

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August 31, 2009 • 10:31 am 4

Twitnest – visualization of your followers and their’s (wow)

Twitnest opens with a blank page and a simple box.  Enter your Twitter username.  Then watch the magic happen.  I don’t even want to screenshot it and ruin what it does.

So stop reading here and go play, then come back and see what we say..  We will wait.

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August 31, 2009 • 7:54 am 0

Twixperts – ask your question to topic experts on Twitter

Twixperts lets you either ask or become a subject expert, both for free.  So we are immediately not sure where the revenue model comes in, if one will exist.  But you do sign in with oAuth and away you go.

As a person posing the question you simply enter it and choose a category.  Now I did not see anyway to add additional categories, which is nice in one respect.  People couldn’t randomly make up categories and have questions flying all over.  However, I did not see a way to request or find additional ones either.  Once you ask, simply sit back and wait for an expert.

As an expert, you need to follow one of the category “bots” on Twitter to get the questions in your stream.  You then reply to the bot and it takes care of the rest.  I think.  I couldnt find the names of the bots either in the time I was on the site.

One of the problems was the lack of help in the flow of how it all works.  They did have a help page, but some more description on how you know one was answered, or even better when it was answered, was not there.  So threading and conversation type viewing would be nice.   It shows who asked the question, with their avatar, and how long ago.  But then nothing more to follow along.

There was some decent questions being asked that I was interested in seeing the answer to.  But I could not track that part down.  Just the questions themselves.

In all the site UI is clean and pleasing.  The flow needs some work.  Categories need some expansion and people need to be in there as experts!

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August 28, 2009 • 10:41 am 0

Tffratio – your Twitter friend to follower ratio

Tffratio pokes fun and tries to analyze what type of person/account you are based on the ratio between followers and whom you follow.  There seems to be 4 types of people, but I won’t spoil the reading by telling you up front.

You can either go to the site and simply type your Twitter id in, no need to provide a username and password unless you are private.  Or simply send them a tweet to @tffratio and it will send the reply right back!

The site itself shows some samples down the right margin and it is all in good fun.  They even have a badge you can use to promote yourself to a tweet button to send the results out.  I can say I fell at a 7.20 ratio, go see what it means, lol.

Chris Miller's Twitter Ratio Badge

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August 28, 2009 • 7:53 am 0

Twollo – automate finding people to follow

Twollo is like a few other services built around automating your accounts action of following others based on similar interests or keywords.  It is free with some paid enhancements available (for 4.50/month).  So let’s cover the basics of how it works.  Login is done via oAuth, a great start.

Twollo is designed to work in the background finding others based on the keywords and descriptions you enter.  From there it goes to work using your credentials to begin following these accounts.  You can pause, amend or even stop the service at any time you desire.

The system itself has a daily email reporting feature, which I didn’t go far enough into to speak about.  The rest was selecting how many people to follow based on specific keywords and in which language.

If someone does not match what you need then you can essentially blacklist them from showing in results again.  I am still personally against automating following, but the site is very clean in the UI and simple to use for those that need this service.

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August 27, 2009 • 10:48 am 1

TwitterLamp – a wierd way to follow new users

TwitterLamp has the idea that I give you my Twitter username and password, which is not stored per their help section, and you will randomly follow 20 people based on a category I select.

Maybe it is just me, but random following when I don’t even know how they are categorizing people in the first place doesn’t make much sense.

Then I read the benefit section.  It suddenly all made sense.  The idea is that people will normally follow you back if you follow them.  So this site is all about building numbers, nothing more and nothing less.

The rest of the site is all about ad placement and sending you to sites to buy books, dvd’s and other info on Twitter.  Ugh!

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August 27, 2009 • 10:18 am 1

Conduct An Interview Twitter style With Tweeterview

Tweeterview is a new service that is bringing real-time interviews , or Twinterviews, through the use of Twitter and making it easier to do interviews via Twitter.  Keeping in line with the 140 character limit, you can use Tweeterview to record an interview in an easily digestible format. Embed your twinterviews on your blog or add them to a blog post to share with readers and newcomers!

Screw email, I might start using Tweeterview instead!  Here’s a look at a sample Tweeterview:

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August 27, 2009 • 7:41 am 1

Twitroduce – introduction service for Twitter

Twitroduce allows you to introduce people to each other, tell you who recommended you to others and helps locate people for you to follow based on interests/keywords.  You can start, without logging in, by twitroducing yourself.  They do a good job by using the hastag and then a quick joke.  Mine showed as:

I’d like to #twitroduce myself: I can eat chicken noodle soup with chopsticks!

You can also, without logging in, click to introduce a friend.  It basically generates a tweet where you place the persons name and already has their hashtag in place.  The real value is when you log into the site itself.

You start by using oAuth to log into Twitter.  The dashboard screen is simply four bright colored buttons allowing you to introduce your friends, then yourself, see sent messages and finally received.

I went into the screen to introduce others and they have done a good job of making it very elementary.  You choose:

  • Who you wish to send the suggestion to.  Either all followers or specific people.
  • How you wish to sen the introduction. Either status update, direct message or both
  • Edit the message
  • Select the users you want to introduce.  This area was a huge avatar grid of everyone you follow.  So it could be quite long.
  • I also found a button for you to manually type usernames in for someone you may not follow or if you don’t want to scroll around.

I did see one thing I hope they change.  When selecting who to send the introduction to, it was alphabetical by what the person lists as their first and last name, not Twitter id.  With no way to sort by that.  Then the person you are actually introducing is a nice avatar sorted by Twitter name.  A conflict for sure, since I also don’t always know the first and last name but know the Twitter id or avatar.

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August 26, 2009 • 11:02 am 1

FlashTweet – a complete twitter account management tool

FlashTweet is quite the surprise since it has so many tools inside of it.  We ran across this by accident and were impresed with the clean UI.  Until we hit one roadblock below.  First, here is a short list of features:

  • bulk follow by search terms
  • multiple accounts
  • scheduling of tweets
  • pull in RSS feeds to your Twitter stream
  • see who you follow that follows you back

Now for the downside, or simply something you are not used to.  It is not free.  After your 14 day trial, you move into automatic billing of $6.95/month until you cancel.  Read the Privacy Policy to make sure you opt out in advance from them using your personal data for marketing or anything else.

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August 26, 2009 • 8:29 am 1

Crederity – credential verification for Twitter users? not in my eyes

Crederity has a slogan, Trust Matters.  Once reading some of the things they ask for, do you trust them? Crederity is trying to make digital, verified identity cards.  They make it sound quite simple up front:

How does it work?
Crederity uses its cutting edge background check and credential verification process to verify the identity of our users. Once their identity is verified, we connect their twitter account to their Crederity profile. Thus, we perform a comprehensive, verifiable identity check to support their online twitter profile.

Digging in deeper, it is free for US and users in India and anyone can be verified that can meet their verification steps.  You walk through what is almost a credit type authorization process which runs against public records.  You then also have a manual option to send them notarized copies of your drivers license or passport.

Now call me crazy, but sending this type of information online or via postal mail to some address in NY just isn’t in my character. Did I forget to mention that it costs money to run through this whole thing?

In fairness, I went back to their homepage and the company itself does identity verification, including for marriage and employment.  So making digital identity cards is a natural progression.

I walked through part of the registration, but as soon as they ask for birthdates, license numbers and more, it sounds more like phishing.  I know they say they have a few thousand using the credential icon and have been verified, and someone must be first, but it just isn’t me.

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