EverythingTwitter

Icon

Great tools, apps, and services built around Twitter

January 19, 2011 • 8:00 am 3

Discover Your Twitter Birthday Using TwBirthday

If you’re curious to know when someone first signed-up for Twitter or even how long you’ve been on yourself, look no further than TwBirthday. Simply type in any Twitter handle and TwBirthday will give you the Twitter birthdate for the username you entered. In addition, Twbirthday suggests who might’ve “godfathered” or introduced this person to Twitter, their age index, and a break down of just how long a Twitter account has been active.

TwBirthday

This may seem like useless information at first glance, but marketers and those looking for further demographics on their Twitter followers might find this tool to be beneficial. Also, if you’re not sure if a Twitter account is a scam artist or a real person, knowing how long the account has been open can help you find out. And if you’re simply trying it out for fun, don’t forget to celebrate your Twbirthday when it comes!

Filed under: Profile Customization Tools, ,

November 24, 2009 • 9:13 am 2

ListBrowser – the easy way to view Twitter lists

ListBrowser is another project from Dave Winer and shows functional simplicity as expected.  The main screen is the logo above and a simple box asking for the username of the list owner.  You are then presented with, well thinking of it,  a list of lists for that person.  Clicking on any list brings up a simple view of members, the number of followed and followers for each person as well as their bio and links to them and the list itself.

The XML for the list is available and clicking on any user in the list then gives you their lists.  The idea became clear.  I like this person and they have a good list.  Up pops who belongs to that list and clicking on any member shows you their lists.  You can basically use this to jump around for hours finding good content and lists themselves.  If he adds in tag searching of some kind for the lists, it would be even better!

Filed under: List Management, ,

November 18, 2009 • 2:12 pm 1

TweetLevel – see someones importance (authority) on Twitter

TweetLevel is the kind of application we need with Twitter lists forming and the questions now surrounding them.  How reliable, or seen as an authority, is someone?

TweetLevel looks at a few categories about an individual including Influence, Popularity,  Engagement and Trust.  Each is given a ranking score from 1 to 100.  I like the idea of breaking down the different areas someone might be seen by the community.

 

what are the numbers?
Each score is rated out of 100 – in other words, the higher your score, the more important you are. There are four result metrics:

* Influence – what you say is interesting and many people listen to it. This is the primary ranking metric.
* Popularity – how many people follow you
* Engagement – you actively participate within your community
* Trust – people believe what you say

I went ahead and used myself as the test victim, as normal.  You can narrow your calculation using some built in drop-down choices about your job and location.  our avatar, score and rating in each category is then displayed.  No need to log in if you have a public stream.  What I did like it is tells you why get the score assigned.  So as not to spoil the surprise, check yourself out and see what it tells you.  Go ahead, you can trust me (according to them)  :-)

The main page shows the top Twitter users by influence, for a quick snapshot of who you should trust.  Interestingly, I wish they had an autmated script that could make a Twitter list out of this so I could follow the list and always have trusted, recent content.  Humorously Chris Brogan is right next to the new York Times.  Good for him!

Filed under: Follower Management, ,

June 18, 2009 • 2:54 pm 0

TweetPsych – build a psychological profile of a tweeter

TweetPsych is yet another Dan Zarrella masterpiece.  This time the product prefers to analyze the last ~1000 tweets from a single person that just does not pump news feeds into a Twitter stream.  From there is does quite a bit of analysis:

…uses two linguistic analysis algorithms (RID and LIWC) to build a psychological profile of a person based on the content of their tweets

I ran it against myself as usual and never cease to be surprised by any results any of these services send back.

Filed under: Graphing Tools, Profile Customization Tools, ,

Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.

Join 33 other followers