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September 11, 2009 • 9:30 am 0

Tweepml: Group and Share Your Favorite Twitter Users

TweepML is an open standard service that allows you to share lists of Twitter users. Enter twitter users by handle or let TweepML find them for you, name your TweepML, tag it and get to sharing! For each list that you create you can embed a button linking to the list for others to check out and follow. You can also make suggestions for new users to be added or removed to list creators, making it great for crowdsourcing updates to groups.

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September 7, 2009 • 2:30 pm 0

Tweetvite: Easily Find & Create Tweetups

Tweetvite is a service that makes creating and finding local tweetups simpler. Previously, you may have had to wait until someone tweeted a local tweetup. Now you can use Tweetvite as your Tweetup search tool.

In addition, creating a tweetup is just as simple. Enter in the basic information (name, date, time, location) and add a unique url or hashtag to your Tweetvite to easily track tweets about the event and see who’s interested in attending. You can also find a local tweetup by location. If you can’t find one, maybe now is the time to forward this post to event organizers or simply start your own.

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June 5, 2009 • 8:12 am 0

Mixero invites yet again for everyone

We highlighted Mixero just days ago and gave away 50 invites to our closest friends, our readers.  Well the team at Mixero has been gracious enough to give our readers another 100 invites.  Apparently we send all the cool people their direction.

The updates to the Mixero client are coming along fast and get better each time.  They are listening to enhancement requests as well as performance issues anyone encounters.

Spread the word and don’t wait this time too long, I got plenty of @ replies and emails asking for an invite after they were all gone.  Here is your chance.

invite code:  everythingtwitter to the first 100 people.  Links on our review posting

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June 1, 2009 • 6:26 pm 0

tinyLinkFeed: Stop Following What’s For Breakfast

tinyLinkFeed could very well become your next quick dashboard tool for viewing twitter messages that only contain links.

tinyLinkFeed simplifies tracking links posted to microblogging networks like Twitter. The service resolves shortened URLs, making it easier to see what you’re linking to, and offers RSS feeds for following links with a feed reader.

While it doesn’t index everyone’s tweets you can do a search for quite a few people and receive only their twitter messages containing links. The service provides you with a short list leading straight to the resolved URLs and a list of the user’s twitter messages containing those links and more.

We’re hoping to see the service index more users and provide a way to track these users from one location. We hope you’re listening tinyLinkFeed devs! Let us know how this might help you better track information and people on Twitter.

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May 28, 2009 • 8:00 am 9

Mixero – the new Twitter client to beat (with 50 invite codes)

Mixero didn’t just come running out of the gates based on Adobe Air, it came out with a plan to beat the other clients.  I will have a screencast available also showing off what you can do.  The slogan of Mixero is Reducing the Noise and they are well on their way.

  • Channels
  • Filters
  • groups
  • true read/unread marks
  • avatar mode
  • link expansion
  • preview
  • URL shortener
  • a coming iPhone app (maybe Blackberry too please?)
  • it goes on…

The middle column (all screenshots here) became important after learning the client interface.  It can become a hub of what is recently updated as well as channels, groups and individuals.  Basically a quick view of who updated and how many times.

Channels can be built around a keyword and even limited to certain users

Groups are easily created with type ahead ability to make adding users quick

You are able to preview not only pictures, but also YouTube videos right in the client interface.  This gives you the ability to safely view linked pictures as well as move quickly through tweets.  With the groups and channels you can streamline your experience further.

Multiple URL shorteners are available for you to automatically shorten URLs after a length you specify.  You are also able to see links in tweets automatically expanded to see where you are headed before clicking.

Overall the UI is clean and customizable and comes with some themes built in.  I was impressed at how I could open different panels, float specific parts and then I encountered the killers.  First was true unread marks.  In other clients when you mark a tweet as read it still shows in the timeline.  In Mixero you can hide all read tweets (easily shown with a click) to only see the new items.  Then I found the other feature.

Avatar mode.  This new feature they put into the beta allows you to reduce the entire interface into pictures that can sit on top of whatever application you are running outside of Mixero.  You then see updates from those (with unread count) and allows you to hover over the avatar and see the recent tweet.  This boosts productivity incredibly by allowing to maximize screen real estate while following the flow.  If it is too much, add some filters to trim it to even more pertinent information.

Whoa, as writing this I found yet another cool part.  Tweets that are part of a thread have a tiny icon that when hovered over allows you to follow the full conversation!  Too cool.  Also when you reply it highlights the tweet you respond to as well as shows it is now a conversation.

So I know what you are looking for, the invite code.  First you need the download link for the client itself and that is right here.

Once you get it loaded, enter your twitter username, password and the following first 50 47 people will get right in with this passcode! (TheSocialGeeks had to get some first)

everythingtwitter

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May 27, 2009 • 10:38 am 0

Twitster – putting Twitter groups on your website

Twitster is a PHP application for your webserver that allows you to do some cool hashtag or group following and then display it on any website/server that supports PHP.

I have a conference ID set up that we use each year to rebroadcast to everyone that follows it, but this is a new implementation idea to allow people to watch the stream instead of having to be part.  You could even use this just for your own website or project:

# Publish your Twitter community on your own web site.
# Gather and publish tweets from the people and the topics you care about.
# Powering your site’s community with Twitter means little to no work for member participation. (Just tweet!)

The site has demos to watch and the install is a wizard.  That is incredible as most of the tools like this would be a ton of code and steps with loose pages to work with.

To run this you must have PHP 4.x or higher and also MySQL 4.x or greater.

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March 4, 2009 • 8:23 am 0

Tweetizen – discover people through groups

Tweetizen is a tool in beta that provides groupings around topics, or lets you create your own.  From their own site:

Use Tweetizen to create twitter groups, and you’ll be able to stay on top what is happening in all your areas of interest. Imagine having instant access to breaking news and the latest tweets on news, politics, technology, gossip, fashion etc. all in one place, rather than having to create multiple twitter accounts just to be able to find what you want.

You log in with your existing Twitter account and start creating groups based on keywords (tags) or user ids of other Twitter users.  I clicked into some of them and they have a good set of starter lists made.  Such items as SEO, Technology and sports statd out right away as a great stream of information.  It was such a simple process to do and you find yourself making a bunch of groups right away.

Reading on it seems they have some new capabilities coming down the line also:

We have some big plans for Tweetizen. Our future releases will include the ability to:

* Create groups with family and friends
* Share your groups with others
* Ability to re-tweet and directly contact other tweetizens
* Embed your groups on other websites
* Search for other groups

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March 3, 2009 • 4:50 pm 1

Twimailer: More Info About New Followers In One Email

Twimailer

Twimailer was spotted by Zee on The Next Web. We have to agree with him that this app is one of the most useful Twitter apps to debut in a while.  To summarize what it does, Twimailer gives you more information about new followers than the standard follower email notification that Twitter sends you.

If you’re becoming more and more concerned about following people on Twitter, then you Twimailer is a must use tool! We won’t say a thing. Instead, well let you watch this clip: Twimailer Demo.

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March 3, 2009 • 8:38 am 2

TweetProbe – full Twitter data mining

TweetProbe is an entirely different beast of an application.  This is a downloadable client that:

Query Historical Data ~ All data filtered through Event/Group/Friend are saved to your local disk. Data actions include query, set, sort, graph, export, import, and ad hoc on the fly tagging. {update} yes, we can fully integrate web services too…

Now while there is no pricing set, the system requirements were just as hefty to run it.  I am not sure how they are best utilizing the API calls to generate all this data in a quick fashion, but the About page was not too clear on that.

min System config’s :

datamine feed: Core 2 Duo, 2GB memory, display 1280×800
firehose feed: Quad Core Xeon, 4GB memory, display 1280×800
the TweetProbe app requires minimum 250MB, preferred 350MB
scalability: TweetProbe can run in a master/slave config

There was a bunch of features I found running through their Tumbler blog such as:

Friend Management : Find as you type, locating friends by name, location, bio and mymemo. Then order list by clicking on column title. Ready to group? Do it.

Then I came across:

Using our Friend Find – 101,000 friends – looking through bio’s, cities, and avatars. So much cool data is hidden in the cloud…

Ok, so I can’t wait to play with this

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January 7, 2009 • 10:49 am 0

Tweetworks – private Twitter groups

TweetWorks adds a few capabilities, all through a web interface.  The ability to create and join private groups is the huge selling point.  They top off that delicious bite of heaven with threaded conversations.  It removes the hastags issue and also gives easy means to work with a group.

There are three tabs on Tweetworks:

  • You — This is where you can find all the conversations you have participated in over the last 24, 48, or 72 hours.
  • Group — This is where you’ll see the conversations that have taken place within your groups (public & private) over the last 24, 48 or 72 hours.
  • Public — Here you can see all the public conversations happening on Tweetworks over the last 24, 48, or 72 hours

It seems they have a bunch of other tools built in worth checking out including link shorteners and conversation timelines

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