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March 11, 2010 • 11:55 am 0

Session Tweets – a daily digest of relevant hashtags

Session Tweets is an awesome idea, straight from the makers of Backupify (which service I use and recommend).  They take hashtags and put them together as a collection into an emailed PDF file.  So if there is a conference, session, seminar or hot trend, you can get an emailed version of the entire day.

The site homepage has the most recently created, then by date.  At the bottom you can suggest some tags to have a report created.  I can see this being huge during SXSWi in the coming days.  Backupify is even tying this in nicely with the promo free year of the Premium service.  SXSW will have a Session Tweets Daily edition coming out you can subscribe to.

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January 11, 2010 • 8:42 am 0

Twitr – a (not so good) user directory

Twitr plays is dangerous with such a close name to Twitter.  But they are a user directory based around hashtags.  You are able to add yourself, utilizing oAuth to give access to your user profile information, and assign three tags that best describe you.

After it processes you, a profile page is brought up that draws in your Twitter avatar, bio, latest status and a small graph of follower count.  There is a lowr section for TopURLs, but I did not see any information there.

A mobile site is available and the homepage includes links to tags and top users. They need to include some advanced searching to search across tags and people since it is supposed to be a directory.  heck, any kind of search would have been nice.

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October 12, 2009 • 10:41 am 0

TweetChat – ‘realtime’ chat around hastags

TweetChat is a unique approach to hashtag searches and conversations.  After using oAuth to log in, you search for or select a hashtag to view the current tweets around.  This puts you into a channel with only information about that hashtag showing up.

This is important to pull yourself out of the river of Twitter and into a nice bubbling brook (for lack of a better water example).  You can pause (called SmartPausing in their system) the conversation and even block spammers from showing.  This allows you to focus and communicate through tweets with everyone around the topic.

After logging in, I saw my Twitter background overlayed with their UI asking what hashtag to search for.  I chose to check in on one of two conferences going on while writing this.  @Corvida is at Blogalicious09 and UKLUG just finished.  I was able to reply, retweet, favorite and see user controls for each result.  I could also change rooms in the upper right to a new hashtag.

This site is incredibly useful for working with everything around an event.  The upper (slighty obscure) settings allowed me to pause, refresh speed, font controls, share link and more user controls.

Whoa, last second item.  If there is too much traffic you could slow it down or pause, but a great user control feature I found was the ability to feature users.  I didn’t find a description of this feature, but that is a great!!  Toggling the font made it smaller to show more lines.  Refresh speed allowed every 5 to 60 seconds.

I wish they could bring in picture popup and showing where links go, but otherwise I liked the site.

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September 22, 2009 • 7:29 am 0

Twirus – trending topics in any language, not just English

Twirus is filing a gap as Twitter spreads in usage globally.  Currently, trending topics are only words in English, so other languages get left out.  This is true even if they have a hotter topic than anything else.

The main page is a little busy and confusing at first, but filters exist across the top to see topics by language, region or timeline.  Popular tags are listed down the right side with popular people down the left.  Reading their about information, they take into account the popularity of the Twitter user in the rankings of the tags also since this is all coded by them.

A great tool for those joining in from other places in the world and want ways to follow hot topics from there. While there is only a few countries listed for now, I can see this service expanding.

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September 10, 2009 • 2:34 pm 0

TweetChannel – create and follow Twitter channels

TweetChannel utilizes hashtags for creating channels, or streams to watch.  You must log in with your twitter username and password, no oAuth, for authentication. Begin each tweet with the hashtag, or channel name you wish to follow.

The service then basically strips the hashtag portion out to show you just the raw tweets in a timeline.  Nothing fancy and every twitter client basically does this now.  I don’t think you would need to make a special trip to this site that was founded in 2007/2008.  It looks like they did a good early job and then let it sit.

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September 9, 2009 • 10:32 am 1

TwiXtreme – the sweetest BlackBerry client?

TwiXtreme touts itself as an ad free, cool client for BlackBerry users.  The screenshots of the interface looked clean and easy to use. (I say this since I am just loading it for testing).

You can do quite a few things with the client:

  • re-tweet
  • see trends
  • get direct messages
  • find nearby tweets
  • upload pictures
  • search
  • favorite

It takes advantage of the screen real estate on the devices and the only restrictions seem to be the OS version, and not type of device itself.

The client is made by Xtremelabs, so you should pay them a visit and see if they have anything else you need since this is free.

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August 13, 2009 • 10:42 am 0

MyTweeTopics – discover topics based on your hashtag

My Tweetopics is a free service that lets you discover the topics you tweet about based on your #tags and share them.  That about sums up what they have as a description on their homepage.  You log in via oAuth to utilize the service itself.

Any topic of your tweet that you include a hashtag will allow you to create a channel on the site as well as provide embed code for your blog.  When you first log in it gives you a URL of your channel as well as tries to follow them on Twitter and send a tweet you are using the service.  Kudos to them for allowing you to skip that if you desire, including following them.  I appreciate them letting me work with the site before following them.

I went ahead and skipped and my Twitter stream came up with how long ago I sent that tweet, the ability to favorite, post a comment email or retweet it also.  I imagine had I picked a hashtag it wold have rebuilt the channel.  You can see mine right here.

You can see the latest topics and tweets from some tabs above the channel as well as your recent topics on the right panel.  The embed code was a tiny button that provided a pop-up with the required script.  It did not look like you could change the size or colors of the embedding yet.

This site comes from Arktan which has channels around all of the social sites I found by clicking around the About and Help pages.  So there is a background in this ability with the developers and it was nice to see them specialize in Twitter.

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July 22, 2009 • 9:08 am 0

Twitdone – your space for getting things done (tasks)

Twitdone lets you tweet your tasks in an effort to help get you organized.  You have a couple ways to interact with the site.  Their web interface is the full management and the rest is done via Twitter from hashtags to direct messages.

I will immediately tell you this site had one of the best help screens, before you even log in.  Every step was drawn out.

Once you log into the site, via oAuth, you are presented with a blank task area and a box to enter your task, in less than 140 characters.

You could also have sent a tweet with #todo and the system will pick that up or just direct message one to keep it private.

Once you have started forming a list of todo items, the web interface allows you to color code, mark done, archive (no undo for this) and even tweet the todo back out to your stream.  For those that demand attention and color isn’t enough, you can even add a star to those items in your list.

I thought ok, so a web based todo list I interact with from Twitter.  How do I remember I have these?  TwitDone also includes a notification area to send alerts for specific tasks.  It appeared to be email based only.  I hope they soon allow direct message reminders to come back to you.

Lastly was the ability to search your to-do information.  This can be handy if you have used the system for a while or if you just have a ton of crap that you never get done.

There is one automatic tweet that goes out when you sign up for the account, their way of promotion saying you are using the service.  After that, they never post back to your stream or use your account (mainly since you are using oAuth and can remove them immediately).

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June 25, 2009 • 2:50 pm 1

Trendmetr- visualize how often a term is mentioned

Trendmetr watches for search terms against Twitter, instead of watching for trends based on what is being published in hashtags and the like.

Three default trends appear on the screen, all of which are editable.  You can easily add more meters (yet how to do it took a second to figure out) by clicking the + sign at the top of the page next to the logo.  Honestly I at first thought it was part of the logo and couldn’t find it.

The trends, much like visualizer bars, go up and down with each refresh and show an approximate decibel value and number of mentions.  You can click to search against Twitter or Twoquick (Google and Twitter search service from the same makers) for more information on the trend.

A quick tool with a clean and easy to understand result.

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June 23, 2009 • 9:51 am 2

Foller.me – get all the info on the person before following them

Foller.me has one of the easiest welcome pages imaginable.  See the logo above?  That is it outside of a small entry box where you type a Twitter id (a Twitter id is no longer just a person, but that is another post).  What you get back is outstanding in a clean interface after it reads your last 200 tweets and 500 followers.

At the top is some very light images of others that were requested, just so you might roll your mouse over them and take a look.  But then the information begins.  I ran myself as normal.  I got the bio information first.  Followers, following, location, etc etc.  How many tweets.  All of that.  The basics as you would imagine.

Next up was a listing of recent topics, not hashtags, but topics themselves.  A great way to see more than the hashtag listings.  If you select any recent topic listed it then uses Twitter search on that keyword to get you more results from the public stream.

As each section is collapsible to save screen real estate, the next section down is hashtags.  It quickly gives a listing of all the recent hashtags.  As you would expect, the larger the word the more frequently used.

Next  up is recent mentions, meaning who that person has replied to or mentioned in their tweets.  it is a good indicator of who that person interacts with.  Each name is a link which then takes you to their Foller.Me profile, brilliant for keeping you not only on the site but also gives you the most information.

The last section currently only looks at 500 followers of that Twitter id, but it lays the followers across a Google mashup showing where they are and even gives some text on the bottom.  Meaning of the 500 it scanned for me, there was 221 different locations with 14 invalid ones (meaning the person did not list a true or real city or place).  You can click on any icon to get the name and location of the person.

NOTE: I think I forgot to mention the bookmarklet they have so you do not have to visit the site each and every time.  A great time saver

Filed under: Follower Management, Location services, Search Tools, , ,

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