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January 4, 2012 • 10:05 am 0

TwitWipe – delete all your tweets at once

TwitWipe gives you that fresh start you always wanted to have by removing all, yes all, of your tweets.  There is no archiving with this tool, the writer really means that it simply Twitwipe logodeletes everything and gives you that fresh start.  Now I did find a conflict in one of the description paragraphs below:

Why not just delete the account and create a new one?

Doing so will create a new user id (the numeric id). It’s going to be a separate, new account. All your followers and followees and flurries will be gone! That’s why you should use TwitWipe, because it lets you keep all your followers, favorites and the people you’re following. If you’ve signed into any apps with your account, TwitWiping will keep all that intact. It’s like that memory eraser pen from M.I.B.!

As you see, in one line it says followers and such are gone too.  The next sentence says they stay.  So you have been warned if you lose followers.

It will take some time to run depending on how many tweets you have, so patience is a key in using the tool.  They recommend you leave it running overnight as necessary.  The site uses oAuth so no password information is stored and they joke that there should be no big deal, it is deleting everything anyway.

Filed under: Add-on Tools, Archiving, , , ,

December 21, 2011 • 8:57 pm 0

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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November 1, 2011 • 12:25 pm 0

Know Your Twitter Followers from Schmap.it

Know Your Twitter Followers is a very bland entry page announcing the beta status it currently carries.  You supposedly can get questions to things about your followers like:

  • Where do they live?
  • Are they married or single?
  • What jobs do they do?
  • Which hobbies & interests?
  • Who else do they follow?
  • Their location geographically

As usual, we ran a quick test to let you know how it works.  A quick oAuth approval and all I received was a python script error the first time.  It took off the second time.  In order to see your summary analysis you have to actually tweet the result.  Mine appeared as the following:

My followers like Technology (27.9%), News (16.0%) and Politics (11.9%). #KnowYourFollowers at: http://goo.gl/pjg4A

I was a bit upset I could not uncheck the button to follow their service, even if I was allowing the tweet to go.  I instead viewed the sameple report they did for Starbucks.

Schmap it summary

As you can see they give some good content that is generated from your followers.  The full analysis breaks all this down even further. (See example here).  They have a huge page on how they crunch and data mine the information.  Keep in mind it is acting as you to run this so you may see and be able to report on people that protect their streams.

Filed under: Follower Management, Graphing Tools,

August 9, 2011 • 11:21 am 0

PollMyTweets – a poll engine for Twitter

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PollMyTweets is a neat little service that allows you to send out a request to your followers to participate in a quick poll.  Starting is easy.

Simply log into the site via Twitter.
Tweet using #poll: #poll Do you Like IceCream?
They create a link for followers to vote on.

From there you can see results as people respond.  You can use the service as often as you need.  I am not sure of any embedded ads or promoted items, but I am sure they will come up with something to make some funds.

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April 26, 2011 • 12:55 pm 0

Twitious – automatically bookmark links you tweet

Twitious , by Develop with Style in about two weeks, does an inventive step by bookmarking your tweeted links instead of tweeting your bookmarks. I was able to find users already acessing the system.  They are built a homepage showing the number of bookmarks made, the tags associated with them and then their Tiwtter stats for number of followers/following.

Images are brought in for each site bookmarked to give you a thumbnail approach.  While not always perfect, many did help. I found user pages and a page with the most recent bookmarks made from all over.  It gave me hope that this might prove useful. But..

I am guessing that development stopped as tweets for the account ceased back in November 2010.  I would have written a longer review, but after authenticating with oAuth it said something went wrong and would never let me in any further.

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April 18, 2011 • 8:48 am 2

Fllwrs – you follower tracker service for Twitter @_fllwrs

Fllwrs provides you with a record of who follows and unfollows you each day on Twitter.  Have you ever wondered why your count goes up and down, even with the emails you get from Twitter (or the awesome Topify) showing who follows you?

Logging into the simple page takes you to oAuth page where I ended up highly disappointed:

We apologize, but it appears you have too many followers to use this service at this time.
Please come back again in the future when we expand the service to highly followed users.

So I logged in via one of the EverythingTwitter smaller test accounts only spammers seem to have found.  You then receive three checkboxes of settings:

  • follow @_fllwrs to get updates in your Twitter account (as expected)
  • post a tweet telling your friends about @_fllwrs (as expected)
  • automatically check followers daily and post a tweet with unfollowers (more on this one next)

Now I would like the service to check and maybe let me know time of day and after what tweet they left.  It helps give an indication as to what content might drive people away from your stream.  I do not want a broadcast list of shame going out to my other followers.

I did see a tiny link in the upper right for settings.  Clicking that simply rechecked all of the boxes instead of providing more choices.  I logged out.

I visited their Twitter page ( note the underscore for _fllwrs since the other was taken.).  They have over 34k followers showing people probably used the service and left the box checked.

While I think having a service showing times of unfollowing, having it tweet them out would not be a good choice.

Filed under: Follower Management, , ,

March 10, 2011 • 3:41 pm 3

Tweetspinner – rotate avatars, clean your DM’s and follower management

Tweetspinner is a web based application with a few little tricks inside.  They do require their own login to get started, which can be different than your Twitter credentials.  Note the little checkbox to skip adding yourself to their mailing list.  You provide an email address and password to gain access to the interface.

You can add multiple Twitter accounts to their system, using oAuth for each.  The catch is that there is different levels of capabilities depending on what service you choose.  You come in as basic level, with some limits in capabilities.

I was totally unsware of this when I first entered the system.  Costs are free/$15 month/$21 month to pro (no price listed).  You can add more Twitter acocunts with each level as well as filters, pruning and more.

There is no way to delete your account either, which I found interesting.  FOr some reason I decided not to move on due to these facts.

Filed under: Follower Management, Profile Customization Tools, , ,

March 9, 2011 • 2:12 pm 1

Proxlet – block apps, mute users and tags across clients

Proxlet could be a savior when it comes to times that events kick off (ahem SXSW) in being able to mute particular users, apps or even hashtags on Google Chrome and  supported native clients.  The simple extension installs easily and has a ton of filtering abiltity.  Setting and prefrences even sync across clients you install this on.

I immediately found benefit blocking such things like Foursquare checkins pushed to Twitter and a few other select hastags and variables.

You can not only filter the above, but use it in reverse to only show tweets with links (thanks to their FAQ for that tip).  The developers have no ads embedded, so there is no money to be made here.  They only request beer.

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January 18, 2011 • 1:50 pm 3

TweetRings – your favorite tweet on your finger

Tweet Rings takes the idea of the perfect tweet and emblazes it on steel, titanium or silver for you to wear.  Scary I know, but true.

Your favourite Tweet wrapped around your finger

What’s a tweet-ring? 140 characters, super sharp engraved on both sides of a ring

I don’t know about you, but unless it is an actual wedding proposal via tweet, would you want one on a ring?

Select a twitter message, or create your own text. For example, put the tweet on one side, and on the other the sender, date and time. Or perhaps your personal motto on both sides. Anything is possible, within the 140 characters of a twitter message.

So head on over and pick out the ring for your loved one.  Or not.

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November 30, 2010 • 10:46 am 1

FollowFormation – follow top accounts by interest and more

FollowFormation is technically not new,  but it is still a useful tool.  Their description makes it easier than retyping:

Followformation is a tool for novice Twitter users (we call them “chirpers”) to get started with following the top people in the categories of their interest, and top people in the cities in which they live in. You can call it Twitter’s suggested users feature on steroids
What is interesting is that FollowFormation uses other Twitter directories to build it’s categories and lists.  So we end up with a tool built on other tools.
They also do not want you to use their system to game Twitter.  They built in varying limits that change constantly and can block you from following more until the next day.
How do they make money?  Easy.  Up to 10% of names in the lists are paid placements.  I still like grass-roots growth initiatives.  I realize some look at Twitter as a pure marketing channel, but it is so much more.  Non-profits and charities can get a free slot, which is a nice touch from them.
Followformation has a winter Olympics edition built for you as well.  So they play ti smart and build categories around upcoming events.

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