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FINDING PEOPLE TO FOLLOW & MANAGING FOLLOWS |
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MANAGING FOLLOWS |
My view and thoughts on this topic
are covered on the Tutorials page. |
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MyTweeple is a
reasonably useful website that synchronises with Twitter and then lets you know which of your follows are mutual, who you are following that is not following you and who is following you that you are not following back. The first time you use MyTweeple, depending on how many people you are connected with, it may take quite a while to load. You will find MyTweeple at: http://www.mytweeple.com |
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Who are you following that's not following you back? Who's following you that you're not following back? Find out with this amusing and simple-to-use interface! I didn't
initially find it as helpful as MyTweeple but we all like to do things in different ways and lots of
people in the Twitterhood recommended
it. In time I found it easier to use this application than MyTweeple although
one sometimes has to get it to process information a second time before the
results are correct. I now use it daily:
http://www.friendorfollow.com |
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INTRODUCTIONS |
My views and thoughts on
introductions are included on the Tutorials and
#followfriday pages. |
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Tweeple Pages is a directory of
Twitter users organized by their interests. Although this is a fairly new
service it is a great idea and using it is simply a matter of logging in using
your Twitter username and password and you can start discovering other users
with similar interests as you. Check out the popular ones on the home page or
enter your interest in the search bar at the top of the page. Be sure to enter
your own interests as well so other users can find and connect with you!
http://tweeplepages.com/ |
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To quote the
website: "Twellow is a service to help Twitter users find people to follow. From
Accountants to Yoga, Twellow categorizes and organizes Twitter into hundreds of
niches to make your searching easier. So go ahead,
Connect with people who matter."
One is allowed to choose ten categories/subcategories in
which to be listed as a part of the free service and it seems like a good idea
to do so, so I did :-) One can follow
@twellowup for news and updates if one so wishes.
http://www.twellow.com/ |
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JustTweetIt is a
directory of tweeters to help you find other users with whom you may have
something in common or who might be informative on a topic in which you are
interested. Although I added my details I have to say that the directory seemed
unlikely to get anyone other than those on the first page of any category far -
it isn't organised in a way that would make me want to visit again. Maybe they
will improve it over time. There are plenty of people in it!
http://justtweetit.com/ |
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WeFollow is a
user-powered directory. When you enter the WeFollow site you will be given the
opportunity to choose three tags or categories under which to be listed. You can
type in whatever you want or look at the existing categories and choose from
amongst them. Being in a hurry, I chose #social from the listings and then
simply typed in #quiz and #fun. To complete the transaction I agreed to allow
the app to tweet my new listing and that was that - in and out in a matter of a
minute or two! I like the way this directory is put together.
http://wefollow.com/ |
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Twibs was
created to give Twitter users a place to find businesses on Twitter. They are
big believers in the power of twitter to connect customers with businesses,
working on making it easy for consumers to find businesses, both local and
national. Keep in mind, they're just getting started, so there may be small
glitches and features missing, but don't worry, they're working hard at helping
consumers find businesses on twitter!
http://twibs.com/ |
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There is no way
to put it more succinctly that the author of the website has done: "Enter your
Twitter username. Get suggestions on interesting people to follow."
Unfortunately, when I put my name in there were an awful lot of Internet
marketers on the first couple of pages of suggestions and I am at pains to
imagine why anyone might think that those would be my first choice...
http://www.whoshouldifollow.com/ |
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Looking for more
people to follow?
Twubble can help expand your Twitter bubble—it searches your friend graph and
picks out people who you may like to follow.
http://www.crazybob.org/twubble/ |
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To quote the
website: "Tweepler Is an easy, more enjoyable way of processing your New Twitter
Followers. View a list of New Followers and classify them in one of two
"Buckets" Follow (meaning you wish to follow them back) and Ignore (meaning you
don't wish to follow them and want to archive them out of the way, reducing
clutter)." http://www.tweepler.com/ |
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To quote the
website: "TwitSeeker is basically an alternate search engine for finding
twitter.com users - "twits" - and browsing the results all in one combined
control panel. It works by using the twitter.com API, and finds twits not by
what's posted in their bios but rather based on what they've been tweeting about
lately. It uses a custom tag cloud generator written by the author, and was
created as an experimental tool to help users quickly build up a twitter
community around specific topics."
http://twitseeker.com/ |
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To quote the
'About' page on the site itself: "Launched as an early–stage beta January 20th,
2009, the Nearby Tweets project was developed by Brian Cray to extend Twitter’s
capabilities into its true potential: a geography–centric social tool for
networking and a business tool for building customer relationships and
monitoring real–time buzz. With Nearby Tweets’ sophisticated geographic layer on
top of Twitter people and businesses will find Twitter more relevant,
manageable, and fun!
Even at its early beta stages, Nearby Tweets was recognized by Internet blogging
giant Mashable. Today, twitterers all over the world are buzzing about Nearby
Tweets":
http://nearbytweets.com |
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This app, which I discovered when I
was kindly recommended through it by @alexpuig
is very interesting as it allows one to choose ten people to recommend as the
most interesting people one knows to recommend. Unfortunately, I know too many
interesting people now to be able to make use of it but I would definitely have
used Twibes while the group was still of a small to moderate size and saved a
lot of time doing so! http://www.twibes.com/ |
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MY FOLLOW
BACK VIEWS |
These are covered on the Tutorials page. |
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This is an incredible website
created by Benedikt Koehler of Munich, Germany, aka @furukama and there
was so much to see that I will have to return to get through trying all of it
out but it represents various statistics about a user's interactions with others
in very interesting ways!
http://twitter-friends.com/ |
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This is a bit of 3D fun and also very useful I have no doubt! See the world and who is tweeting from where right now - you can move around the map to see what is going on in a particular sector too at: http://twittervision.com/ |
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Looking for the most authoritative
tweeters on a particular topic? Within reason, this works quite well, in that it
gathers the tweeters on a given subject and displays them in order of apparent
authority - you may have to exercise some discernment but you should be able to
find what you seek (if it's anywhere on Twitter) fairly easily:
http://twithority.com/ |
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Actually, I really don't understand why the fuss about clearing out inactive
accounts - if someone isn't tweeting, they are not adding any clutter to your
tweet stream and may return to Twitter after an absence only to be offended by
finding you have unfollowed them! I suppose such accounts in quantity might
create an imbalance in one's followings if you are following them and they are
not following you back but, otherwise I cannot see what harm they are doing!
http://www.mycleenr.com/ |
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Here's an interesting
way of finding out which of the people in your group are inactive so you can
investigate what has become of them, give them a nudge or do whatever occurs to
you about them! Some people use it to determine which of their followers no
longer tweet so that they can weed them out although, frankly, as I mentioned in
the previous paragraph, someone who isn't
tweeting isn't doing any harm and may be quite offended at being unfollowed
simply for not having been around for a while!
http://twitoria.com/ |
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If you have, or
know of, a Twitter people-finding or following-related application that you think I should include here,
feel free to tweet me about it!
@linnetwoods |
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