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December 19, 2011 • 3:13 pm 0

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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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

PollMyTweets logo

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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March 29, 2011 • 12:55 pm 3

TweetWhen – gauge when to retweet for best results

TweetWhen , from HubSpot, was picked up by @Alanlepo and we had to check it out.  If you ever wondered when your tweets had the biggest impact, this site attempts to show you just that.

Sample report courtesy TweetWhen

You simply enter your Twitter username (if you are a protected Twitter stream you will not be able to use the service) and an optional email address.  I checked to see why they ask for the email address optionally and no clue is given.  I presume for a mailing list.

It will then grab your last 1000 tweets to analyze.  Smartly it also says to register for an upcoming webinar while you wait.  Great marketing move.  As for myself I was told that Monday’s at 10am is my best time.  There is a link to tweet that out, of course.

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June 7, 2010 • 10:02 am 0

Ttrst.me – user reputation grader

Trst.me (from Infochimps) relies on calculating user reputation instead of just seeing how many followers they have as a deciding factor.  The first thing I noticed about how they compile the information is that they have been compiling Twitter information since 2008 using the API.  This gives them a good base to begin measurement.

You enter a username into the single box on the page to have it compute a score ranking of 1-10.  Our president of the US holds the highest rating at 9.9, which is .2 higher than CNN.  But Ellen Degeneres and Shaq are not far behind.  Scary isn’t it?

They also give a good comparison of their service and other Twitter user ranking services and how they differ.

Don’t worry, you won’t rank as high as you hope.

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May 20, 2010 • 3:35 pm 0

Parade – the gosh darn cutest Twitter app yet

It is all about being cute in this one with IsParade.  Enter a search term and the results are brought to you in a parade.  Each person in the parade gets the avatar from the search results and the band brings them marching across.  The help is written in Japanese and I have yet to finish my Rosetta Stone course, but it just works.

Tweets are shown as balloon pop-ups.  You can click anyone to get them to pause and dance to show you their tweet.  Some play drums, some skip, some march.  I don’t even want to give it away.  Just go enter a keyword or Twitter id and watch the festivities.  The music is different the couple things I tried.

Filed under: Graphing Tools, Search Tools, , ,

May 17, 2010 • 10:21 am 0

UMapper – map tweets in a specific area

UMapper is a neat little tool I was sent a link to investigate.  It can actually map anything into a custom map, but tweets are our focus here.  I created a map for a recent conference, easily zooming into the city it was held.  Surprisingly, it was fast and a great way to see what people were talking about with their avatars showing.

The engine is so powerful and I would encourage you to watch the tutorials as well as make some for your events.  It is quite the hyper local tool.  There is plugins for WordPress and Drupal, outside of the embedding feature.  You can alway just link to a map as well.

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April 5, 2010 • 9:55 am 0

SleepingTime – find the sleeping time of Twitter users

We know when everyone usually tweets, so why not reverse engineer it and find when they sleep using SleepingTime.  There is only one box to fill in, and that is the person’s Twitter id.  No authentication is required so protected tweet streams will not be possible.  Humorously this could also show when someone works and are not allowed to tweet as well.

You are presented with a clock showing the red areas that they tend not to tweet and it must be their normal sleep window.  I am not sure how useful all of this is, unless you are looking for them to respond immediately.

Filed under: Graphing Tools, Add-on Tools,

March 24, 2010 • 9:34 am 1

TweetLytics – Twitter analytics for brand monitoring

TweetLytics is not a free service.  Let’s start there.  It is designed by a Chicago firm for brand and buzz tracking.  They do offer a free trial before asking for $199 to $299 per month in a no contract service.

Their demo video shows the ability to split information and trending on gender, sentiment.  You are able to monitor, analyze and then engage with their interface.

So you might ask why this review is so short?  Because they have no screenshots of the interface (they had a slick video that was a great marketing piece) but nothing on the product itself.

I couldn’t create a trial account without credit card information and my ability to remember to come back and cancel in the 30 days before getting charged.  I like the idea of having the free trial, but let it be free, no credit card and then close and hold my data if I choose not to continue.  If I continue, unlock my data and parameters I established and let me roll on.

Filed under: Graphing Tools, Web Clients, Add-on Tools, , ,

March 19, 2010 • 1:36 pm 0

MyTweetMap – map where your friends tweet from

MyTweetMap is a very simple Google Maps mashup offered by a school district.  You enter your Twitter username and password (no oAuth) and it starts mapping out your friends locations.  It was fast responding for a few hundred people that I follow.  Otherwise, not too exciting and you cannot fully act on the tweets.  Great for a quick showing geographically of who you follow.

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