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disclaimer: The linked site is mine also, but the topic affects a Twitter tool so it is being cross posted

On TheSocialNetworker, a commentary on the viablility of uSocial was brought up and can they justify paying their fees to accumulate followers:

They make large promises to deliver a certain number of followers in a certain number of days.  At a cost.  Their biggest promise is 100, 000 followers in 365 days for a minor $3,479 (normally $4,970).  That is an incredible increase from an account that has no followers up to even a few thousand. The first alarm was the simple fact that uSocial themselves only have ~15, 500 followers at the time of writing this posting.

As you can see they are a paid service that offers you more followers by letting them do something with your account.  My guess it automated following which many accounts can turn out to be bots.  Judge for yourself, but we wanted them listed in the catalog.

Filed under: Follower Management , followers, follower_management

Twinester is a bit late to the market with the actual lists feature of Twitter stealing all the news.  They aren’t the first service to suffer the blos of when Twitter includes a feature that they worked hard to develop.  The home page is colorful and easy to understand.  There are three columns to begin.  Hot nests, recent and last users of the site itself.  You are able to sort nests by category across the top navigation and the site uses oAuth to log in.

Each nest shows as a block with a small description.  You can join the nest (if logged in) or click the nest name itself to see the members.  One thing I did notice is the large amount of groups in Spanish.  I am presuming this site is based and originated somewhere from there.  Even the BlackBerry group (which is a Canadian company) had the description in Spanish.

Each member of the nest is shown in a tiny block with where you see their avatar, twitter name, real name (if known) and other nests they are part of.  Otherwise there was no help to be found, only a contact address.

I would like to see more help.  Such as when I join a nest am I following everyone in that nest or getting messages sent to that nest?  How does that whole feature work?  I think an About or help page would be largely beneficial.

Filed under: Follower Management , followers, follower_management

Are You Following Me Too? Was one of the plainest pages I have seen for any tool.  One line describes that the tool will check to see who does not follow you back of the people you follow.  Then a link to login.  While the login is oAuth, you are basically authorizing them to do something that you are very unsure of.  Meaning, without any help, about, images or anything else of substance it is scary to click that login box and authorize them.

But give it a shot, the test account seemed to work fine.

Now I did see the tiny my6solitions link in the bottom left corner, which in turn took me to a site with the top entry saying they have this code working.  This was basically a blog site saying they released the code for this project under the MIT license since other sites did the same thing.  It also had not been tested under large account followings.  So use at your own risk.

Filed under: Follower Management , followers, follower_management