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Followers Secret Monitor – see who unfollows you (SCAM)

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SCAM: It tweeted bad numbers, links and hastags under the test account.  Stay away

This one was sent in and I was suspicious from the start called Followers Secret Monitor (1.01 beta).  It appears for good reason.  Using a test account I logged into the application with oAuth an gave it rights.  I was expecting to see a list of who unfollowed me in some report fashion.  Maybe by date or after what tweet.

Unfortunately what was shows was a screen with a very bad pull of the profile picture and a number of people that supposedly unfollowed the account.  No times, no names, nothing.  Except a button to find lists that will follow you back to grow your followers.

We have reviewed a tool like this before, but it read your current followers and then compared it to then show who stopped.  I was unsure how this one could build the list without a start point anyway.

The site that runs this is TopTwitterShare which puts fun tweets on their homepage.  So use this at your own risk to no result we have seen yet.

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MentionMapp – visualize user and hashtag mentions

MentionMapp (from Vancouver) is a very cool way to see the spread and commonality of any username or MentionMapp logohashtag mentioned on Twitter.  You can then see how those relate to other topics and users helping you build a visual indicator of relationships.

Once the map builds, you can zoom in and out, click on a name or hashtag and the map recenters and expands again.

Click and hold to drag around the map for larger ones when you are zoomed in.  You can share the MentionMapp with a simple retweet button since you must use oAuth to log in before using the service.

Luckily they do not send out tweets or make you follow them automatically like some services. Clicking the word MentionMapp takes you back to the default entry screen where they build a map about their product name.

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TweetCaster – the upgrade rocks across mobile clients

We first mentioned TweetCaster back in 2009 when it was just a BlackBerry app for Twitter. Since then they have gone multi-platform opening the doors to iPad, iPod, TweetCaster logoWindows Mobile , Bada, Android and still BlackBerry.

The new interface is quite impressive in the three different operating systems I tested on. Sporting millions of downloads, they have an impressive list of features:

  • All the basic Twitter functions
  • Zip It- hide unwanted tweets without unfollowing people
  • Send to Instapaper
  • Color coding
  • Nearby searches
  • Multiple themes and fonts
  • Info rich timeline
  • you can read the full list here

The client is free with banner ads or you can upgrade to the Pro version for $4.99.  I did not find the ads very intrusive on the iPad, so give the free version a shot first.

Psst, they also now make FriendCaster which is Facebook for iPad and a few other cool apps.

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