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December 29, 2009 • 10:52 am 0

FirstFollower – who was your first?

FirstFollower is a simple site that pulls up what should be your first follower that you ever gained.  Now Twitter has made some changes to how followers are listed, so I am guessing this is accurate.  Either way it is a fun site that works against any name. A great two second time waster for sure.

You can also take the randomly generated tweet it makes about the follower it discovers and send that if you wish.  There is both an English and Russian version of the site.

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December 29, 2009 • 8:36 am 1

TweetBuffet – don’t eat here

TweetBuffet is a site designed to get you followers, whether they are bots, fake accounts or who knows what.  The help is limited and the FAQ is dismal, but let’s look anyway.

The main idea seems to be that you sign up, follow others and the service gets others that sign up to follow you.  No one cares what you tweet about, how often, what topics or if you do at all.  Just a number driver.  The Terms of Service were quite interesting:

Terms and Conditions of Use

IMPORTANT: YOU MUST FOLLOW OTHERS TO GET FOLLOWERS. USERS WHO DO NOT FOLLOW ANYONE ARE AUTOMATICALLY REMOVED FROM THE BUFFET.

There is a VIP service, paid, that will guarantee new followers each day. To get followers yourself, you have to log in and follow all the VIP people plus 20 more.  From there I am not sure how you get followed back.

They also kindly state that they do request your password and may use it, at their leisure and discretion apparently, to send tweets about their service.  Without your control.

Need I even say more?  Don’t eat here for fear of tweet poisoning.

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December 24, 2009 • 8:26 am 1

GraphEdge – social analytics into your Twitter network

GraphEdge stayed out of our vision for a while, reasons unknown.  Yet they offer a great service from testing…. as shown in their screenshot here:

There is numerous tools provided with the service including:

  • How many of your followers you’re really reaching
  • How quickly your network is growing (or shrinking!)
  • Who’s dumping you
  • Who your most influential followers are, and how to reach them
  • Who else your followers are following

Now that they have you hooked, it is a paid service only.  Pricing starts at $4.99/month for up to 10k followers and grows to $19.99/month up to 120k followers.  Once you break that limit you need to give them a call for special pricing.

A free trial is available to test the waters, which we greatly appreciate.  This sample report page for Amazon really shows off the strength of the service.  They have an easy cancellation policy defined along with tons of info on policies of the service.  I honestly read the whole page and was impressed they put effort into it unlike many other services we review.

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December 22, 2009 • 8:39 am 2

Ad.ly – analytics for your Twitter account

Ad.ly is an ad network for Twitter, but also offers an analytics service, via a partnership with PeopleBrowser, that is quite a nice tool.  It analyzes both your content and audience, all after you log in via oAuth.

Here are some of the features:

  • When you tweet compared to when you get retweeted
  • Map overlay of followers
  • some basic demographics
  • how engaged they are
  • your most influential followers

Now for the pitches.  They have some buttons to get you to advertise in your Twitter stream and also the ability to buy the advanced analyze report for a mere $9.99.  Once again third party developers are monetizing, but not Twitter.

Luckily most of my followers are engaged and have not been identified as bots, abandoned, suspended or following too many people.

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December 18, 2009 • 8:53 am 0

TweetHopper – a collection of Twitter bots

TweetHopper (formerly Tweetbots ,  a great collection of bots) now consolidates them into one:

  • auto-follow your followers
  • tweet your RSS feeds
  • multiple Twitter account posting
  • and some more smaller pieces

Their RSS interface is good, not as strong as what you can do with such tools as Twitterfeed, but good.  As well as the bot to handle multiple Twitter accounts.

Overall a nice consolidation of small bots but much of this is being built into some of the clients themselves.

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December 16, 2009 • 2:29 pm 0

Twibbon – promote awareness on Twitter

Twibbon overlays a small icon on your profile image to show support for some cause, organization, product or movement.  Once you affiliate with something it does use your account to send a notice out to al of your followers, so be careful what you choose.

You can find trending causes if you just have to show support for something hot, or even create your own movement.  For the geeks, there is a whole technology area and some recent ones are Android, Ubuntu, Lotus Notes and even Python.  Why not grow someones else’s product?

Seriously, we do see value in using your avatar speak for a cause and showing support in any way you can.  It would be nice if it cost a dollar or so to use the service and proceeds were donated to that very cause.

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December 14, 2009 • 1:36 pm 1

TweetLister – place real estate listings on Twitter

TweetLister is geared specifically for real estate professionals to get their listings to fit into a 140 character tweet and still give a link to all the necessary information.  The agent is able to promote all their property listings, or just individual ones.  They can even schedule when they should be delivered.

TweetLister costs the agent $9.9/month and is able to pull in all their MLS listings automatically.  Any type of property is possible, with the ability to post to mutiple accounts to slice and dice your buyers up to following different accounts for different property types.

Generate Leads with Enhanced Detail Pages! Include multiple photos, detailed descriptions, more property features and useful tools, such as a calculator, school reports, Google map and WalkScore™. And it gives visitors several ways to contact you: directly to your phone and email; through our contact form, which also collects all contact information into a downloadable Excel file; and through two available links back to your agent or property website, virtual tour — or any other web address that provides information about you or your listing.

If you are an agent, give it a shot and let us know.  It looks somewhat useful and promising.  If the MLS had RSS feeds you could do place listings in Twitter for free, but most MLS sites do not.

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December 14, 2009 • 12:48 pm 2

Listomatic: Organize Your Followers Into Lists With Ease

Listomatic Logo

Just like your Twitter contacts, you now have lists to manage them. Does Twitter really expect you to sort through hundreds and thousands of followers to group them together? Unfortunately, that seems to be the case. Listomatic! by SyndeoLabs is looking to solve your problem.

Listomatic is a dedicated Twitter list manager for your contacts. Simply drag-and-drop contacts into any of your Twitter lists. Listomatic’s search feature makes it easy to find who you’re looking for as quickly as possible. It’s well worth trying out if you plan on going on Twitter list creation spree.


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December 14, 2009 • 10:33 am 1

TweetMiner – content discovery for Twitter

I ran across TweetMiner and was intrigued that it was a tool that could bring RSS news feeds in and allow single click tweets right from the content.  The goal is to search and mine for web content that you then easily share with followers.  Once again you become the micro-community search tool for your followers.

There is both a web and desktop client available and demo videos to help you grasp how it all works.  Adding a feed uses Google keyword search to build the feed and the you start bringing in news articles that can be instantly scheduled.  You may also schedule them for somewhere in the future.

Now there is a few plans, from free to Max with varying costs and features.  the number of feeds you can bring and and using your own bit.ly account are some of the things you end up paying for.  Free accounts are only allowed 5 searches to generate RSS while the Max gives unlimited.  You get the idea.

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