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January 5, 2010 • 10:50 am 0

Bettween: A New Conversation Tracker For Twitter

Bettween is a new conversation tracker for Twitter. Hailing itself as the ultimate in its class, Bettween allows you to input the user name of two twitter users and follow any conversations between them. It’s a good way to follow unfolding conversations between celebrities, or keep track of previous conversations you’ve had with your followers.

We’ll warn you now, if the people you search for tweet a lot, it could be up to 5 minutes before any matches are displayed. It does attempt to go back as far in tweets as possible, but this is apparently only done once so the lag will not show again. Also, no authentication is required, so this means if they have protected tweets you will not be able to capture the data.

Filed under: Add-on Tools, Search Tools, conversations, search

November 5, 2009 • 2:55 pm 1

Tweetbe.at – chat channels for Twitter

This is a handy mobile interface and works great from your desk too. You simple log into Tweetbe.at (as in TweetBeat) with oAuth and pick a channel or hashtag. When I say pick, I mean type one in to be clear. There is no list of existing channels to be found. I made a quick one for the SocialMediaBusinessForum (#smbf)

You are then presented with a nice sized, timeline list of tweets with that tag and the avatars and names of who sent the tweet. By clicking the small talk bubble you can see the entire thread they find around that tweet, which is handy for seeing it as a chat.

There is also the ability to translate the text in the conversation and have a permalink just to that individual conversation! You can also retweet, favorite or reply. URL shortenting is included as wel as simply grabbing the hashtag in the reply automatically to keep the thread going. Muting is allowed by clicking the skull on a person or choosing it from the main menu.

In the settings area you can create a description for the channel, the style, color and what to include. Such as retweets, replies or even automated postings. The default color seems to look the best from the few I selected. I am unclear if it does autoupdating or if you can control the time at which it refreshes. I saw no settings for that portion.

The interface lends itself great to putting this on a screen for conferences, seminars and the like.

Filed under: Add-on Tools, Mobile Clients, Web Clients, chat, conversations, threads, translate, URL_shorteners

June 30, 2009 • 9:36 am 1

TwitterForBusyPeople – now we are too busy for Twitter?

TwitterForBusyPeople (via @angryjohnny) is actually a great site! You enter your, or any, Twitter name into the single box on the homepage. From there it pulls the avatars of who posted in the last hour, in the last today and more than one day ago.

The idea being that many of the people you follow post so much content that they push the occasional poster way off of any page or client that you use. The idea of Twitter is living in the stream. Meaning seeing what is there at that time with some keywords available (al la Mixero). So you might miss items.

You can hover over any avatar and see the latest post from them, plus a small More link will expand the window to show a few more of their recent postings. If the pop-up has this little icon then it means there is a conversation around this tweet. You click that to get the conversation. Great work!

It will pull up to 500 of your friends, so if you follow more than that, then you need filters anyway.

Filed under: Add-on Tools, Web Clients, avatars, conversations, followers

May 26, 2009 • 8:14 am 0

Twitoaster – conversations threaded like a message board

Twitoaster takes conversation tracking to new heights for Twitter. Other sites and products would just try and show some form of reply hierarchy to tweets but it was often incorrect or still hard to follow.

You log in with your Twitter credentials into their web interface (no desktop client). Hot conversations in all languages (it shows conversation counts) are listed on the lower part of the page for all to see before logging in, by the way.

One logged in there is a welcome page telling you that it is loading your conversations for the first time and to wait a second or follow them and they will DM you when done. I am not sure how far back it goes and a lot depends on how much you conversate (as I promised to do more).

Your stats and ranks say they will take a day to show up, but it pulls your Twitter bio immediately.

You can see overall rankings with a tab at the top of the page and I was impressed with the charting ability built in. They have embed code for each of the charts for your blog or website to show how interactive you are. I really liked that feature. Here is a sample from me :

So I waited part of the day and revisited and my conversations were in. Clicking the number on the tweet shows the threaded conversation in a drop down. Very slick.

Clicking on see the whole conversation allows you to reply, share across social networks and even retweet. This is a site to use!

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

May 21, 2009 • 8:34 am 0

TwitIQ – smarter Twitter via a web interface

TwitIQ snuck up through a referrer that was in Spanish back to us here at EverythingTwitter. Anything that makes us look smarter we want to see. What I saw was an alternate web interface. They add in some cool features they highlight themselves:

- Full Twitter View/Update features
- Keyword & Topic Insight into Tweets
- Filters for Tweet streams
- User Profiles with Keyword & Topic Insight
- Integrated Twitter and Blog/News Search
- Support for Multiple Twitter accounts

You do log in with your Twitter username and password (no OAuth yet), so the normal precautions apply. I went ahead and logged in for you as usual.

Right away I liked what I saw. Conversations were thrown together to see easy threading. A tag cloud on the right. Hot retweets of some recent time a bit farther down.

I can view:

All tweets
conversations
mentions of me
retweets – shows retweets from anyone you follow, not of your tweets
questions – interesting as it pulls those you follow that ask questions
channels
URL’s – shows tweets with urls included
hot hashtag topics

I am finding little things here and there as I spend more time in the client now. it basically overlays your page on Twitter so you see your own background behind it. There is a search ability in the upper right, a simple search, not advanced.

Just before I hit publish I found that bit.ly and other shortening URL’s are expanded for you in a lower window to show you where you are headed or to click direct. Very nice.

Filed under: Add-on Tools, Web Clients, conversations, hashtags, retweet, URL

April 17, 2009 • 11:00 am 1

Tweetmi – Real-Time Topic Tracker for Twitter

Tweetmi is an awesome real-time topic tracker for Twitter. It’s next in line to take conversation tracking on Twitter to a new level by providing data such as :

Automatic Stream Updates (with the ability to pause new updates)
Fans of tracked topics
Top tweeted stories of tracked topics

The homepage of Tweetmi features current trending topics on Twitter along with popular topics, new fans, and trending videos. Information is presented in an easily consumable, though not the most visually appealing way compared to other Twitter search tools such as the previously reviewed Twazzup.

We’d recommend Tweetmi to those that happen to love watching videos and click a lot of links containing them. Why? Tweetmi seems to be more focused on aggregating links with videos rather than images or other forms of media.

Filed under: Search Tools, conversations, search, tracking

February 16, 2009 • 8:56 am 0

Twickie – archive your response threads

Twickie is an interesting idea. It is designed to give you the ability to retain conversations from Twitter that you have through @replies. There is a nice screenshot slideset at the bottom of the page showing a step by step approach to using the tool.

After logging in, you are presented with a screen where you need to put in a Twitter url for a specific posting. You can easily do this from the webpage of your posting. (example). The conversation history is then shown for this tweet. From there the options are to export it in CSS, HTML or full and put them right into blog postings or whatever. Talk about an easy way to get your point across and share a Twitter conversation.

Now I wasn’t paying attention until I saw the URL. This is a Chris Pirillo site. Cool work.

Filed under: Add-on Tools, conversations, replies, twickie