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Twit Faxo: Twitter Search Tool For Bulk Follow/Unfollow

February 27, 2011 By Jo Adair Leave a Comment

TwitFaxo a Twitter Search Tool to Bulk Follow/Unfollow

Use TwitFaxo to Follow/Unfollow

Faxo.com’s Twit Faxo is a powerful Twitter search tool that can be used for targeting followers as part of an effective online marketing campaign.

Multiple Operators
Twit Faxo offers targeted results by providing all, and, any and exact wording operators. Further filtering is done by choosing what profile part you want to search. There is also a feature that lets you search for users who follow or are followed by a specific account. There are a number of parameters you can set to limit results such as the number of followers/following the account, number of tweets range, and date of last tweet. One of the most useful features is the ability to eliminate users you have recently unfollowed.

Bulk follow, follow/unfollow
Follows and unfollows are automatically accepted. A report of your results is produced. You choose the order you want the results to appear in. There is also a feature to set a time limit for follow backs before automatically unfollowing an account.

Automation
Twit Faxo can be configured with five automatic settings. You can set a time period to wait before unfollowing someone who has not followed you back. You can set up tracking of following and unfollowing, and you can program your account to follow those who follow you and unfollow those who unfollow you. There is also an option to add an automated welcome message.

Rankings
Twit Faxo provides rankings for the one million most popular users on Twitter, along with their number of followers. Interesting to some, I suppose, but I can’t think of a use for drilling quite that deep. Still, if you want to know who the 100 or 1,000 most popular tweeps are, this tool will display that information.

If you use bulk following/unfollowing to grow your list, Twit Faxo can be a valuable resource. Using a variety of Twitter search tools produces different results, which can be amalgamated into a powerful online marketing campaign.

How many Twitter search tools do you use? Leave us a comment below.

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BudURL: Best Twitter Tools for URL Shortening

February 26, 2011 By Jo Adair Leave a Comment

BudURL shortener for campaign management

BudURL - Twitter tool for URL shortening

With only 140 characters available to work with, you have to shorten your URLs when you want to include links in your posts. There are many serviceable URL shorteners around, but why not try one that collects detailed statistics about the traffic around you? One of the best Twitter tools for URL shortening is BudURL.

The Basics
BudURL offers Twitter integration and a short domain name. You not only shrink a long URL, you can add notes and tags as well. Thanks to a clean, intuitive interface, managing your links is a simple task. You can schedule tweets for multiple accounts. BudURL also offers two bookmarklets to simplify tweeting.

Statistics and Analytics
This is where the application really shines. You can view real-time click statistics on each link along with detailed analytics. You can search multiple accounts using many labels and keywords. Your dashboard displays referrers and daily click totals in easy to read charts. This tells you not only how much activity your links are generating, but lets you know which social media platforms are the most active.

More Features
BudURL also provides a visual on your link activity. It displays a list of the retweets of your tweet and link. It also ties in mobile devices with QR codes. Their mobile landing pages make creating a mobile marketing strategy a snap. The Geo-IP data identifies location details for cities, regions and countries. This provides valuable geographic insight that can benefit your marketing strategy.

BudURL is a great way to shorten your links and analyze their reach. There are many applications to measure website traffic; this tool captures and measures your social network traffic. The site offers three premium packages for users, so you can find the perfect fit for your business. This is definitely one of the best Twitter tools available for URL shortening.

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New Applications – Week 7

February 22, 2011 By Marc Zeale 1 Comment

New Twitter applications

This week we’ve added 29 new applications to our site!

My Twitter Toolbox is constantly seeking out the latest and greatest new applications for the benefit of our readers, who look for new ways to interact with the site. Our growing list of best free and paid Twitter tools is updated every week, so be sure to check back often to find helpful programs that help improve your social media experience.

This week’s entries include the following:

CozyTag
CozyTag allows you to power up the tags you use online by allowing you to create and track them all across the Web. The site pulls in tags from Twitter, Flickr, LiveJournal, Blogger, YouTube, and 53 other services.

FreeSearch
FreeSearch enables you to search across social media, social networks and the web generally to find the people you want to find – from inside Twitter. You simply follow @freesearch, reply with a name of interest, and the search results come back in a tweet within minutes. You can also conduct private searches and restrict searches to specific networks like Twitter, LinkedIn, Classmates, Digg, TypePad, and several others.

GovLive
GovLive is the most advanced aggregator of real-time government news on the web, provided free to the public directly from Twitter. Every news item comes direct from agencies and officials without editorial or political bias. GovLive began as a service to get information to people quickly during emergencies and has evolved to become a sole source for all government news, big and small.

Instant Tweetup
Instant Tweetup is one of several new iPhone applications that provides a fun and easy way to make new friends, connect with local people and find out whats going on in your community. By using Twitter to search your local area, Instant Tweetup shows who is nearby, up to 10 miles, and lets you send them a tweet. It’s a good way to connect with people after gigs, conferences, seminars, or even to find someone to have a coffee with.

Journalist Tweets
JournalistTweets helps journalists connect with each other. If you have a Twitter account, you can click a gray arrow below any tweet on the site to reply to that journalist right there.

LinksAlpha
LinksAlpha.com is a Real-Time news tracking and publishing site. LinksAlpha.com also provides social activity measurement application that enables you to track social activity happening on any news Site or blog.

MicroBlogBuzz
MicroBlogBuzz lists the latest trends on micro-blogging services Twitter, Jaiku and Identica. You can see the trends (buzzes) of the last 60 minutes, 6 hours, 24 hours, 48 hours, 7 days, and 30 days. All the micro-blog posts on this site are loaded from external micro-blogging platforms.

Music Followers
Musicfollowers is a great way to find people to follow with similar music tastes on Twitter. This is a search mashup with Idiomag. All you have to do is enter your two favorite artists and it returns a list of Twitter users that have mentioned those and also other similar artists.

MyTweetMark
MyTweetMark is a site for creating, targeting, and measuring marketing campaigns on Twitter. You can gain more followers and contacts by using the site to reach out to people you wouldn’t normally have access to. The site also has analytics for measuring tweet views and you can create a business profile for your blogs and to help create a social media contact list.

Propnotes
Propnotes is a location-based site where users can find, review, and talk about local condos through updates. The has over 4,000 properties with information local to certain provinces in Canada.

TelAware
This iPhone application takes the tweets of businesses and connects them to a physical location. This way, when you go out you can open this application and see the tweets of businesses close to where you are, and it doesn’t require you to follow the account.

Turpial
Turpial is a client written in Python which is light, fast, fully functional and integrated to the user desktop. Its feature set includes the ability to shorten links and support for retweets, direct messages, favorites, follow/unfollow, and attaching images to tweets.

Tweet & Give
Tweet And Give is a new application that donates money to charity at no costs to users. The app uses ad revenue as the source of charitable donations. A minimum of 80% of the site’s gross ad revenue will be donated. Users can choose a charity from our list of select charities, and the funds generated from their activities on the site will go to their chosen charity.

Tweet2PSM
Updates your personal message in Windows Live Messenger with your current Twitter Status, with customizable time interval. This script requires Messenger Plus!.

Tweeting Places
Tweeting Places is geo-location based site that establishes a visual directory of places that tweet. Restaurants, hotels, coffee shops, universities etc. Users can zoom in on their own hot spots, add their own places, check out the site’s blog, and scroll around the world to find places that tweet regularly.

TweetReports
TweetReports provides the most advanced search filters, brand tracking and reporting features available – allowing you to monitor, track and conduct searches about your brand or your competitors whenever you like. You also get a premium tool that provides follower analysis, keyword analytics, bookmarking, and advanced searches using Twitter Lists.

TwitHorus
TwitHorus.com is a new application that aggregates and displays real-time tweet updates of tech companies by category directly from the source, making it easy to filter out the noise and find out what your competitors are up to. Twithorus.com also provides statistics/analysis on the tweeting activity of companies, insights on how users are reacting to updates of each company, and real-time search capabilities.

TwitStat.us
While Twitter does provide badges and widgets, the current badges and widgets merely display YOUR latest tweets. TwitStat.us goes one step further to showcase search results from Twitter’s stream, and the site makes it completely plug and play, completely free of charge.

Twitter For Busy People
T4BP is a fast and fun way to see what all your friends are tweeting at once. No registration or login required. Simply enter your Twitter name, and the fun begins. All your friends’ pictures are displayed, letting you mouse over them to quickly see what they are doing. All friends are reduced to a single picture, allowing you to check ALL of your friends in a single glance. Now, with TwitPic integration, you can even see posted pictures without leaving the site.

Twitter Power Search
Twitter Power Search is a simple site designed to surface real-time Twitter trends that rank best. Free Twitter tools are plentiful, and this is one site that arranges trending topics by current, daily,and weekly trends, as well as images, video, and audio categories.

Twitter StreamGraphs
This site shows a StreamGraph for the latest 200 tweets which contain the search word. The StreamGraph shows the usage over time for the words most highly associated with the search word. It’s a fairly sophisticated way of displaying trending topics in a way that requires a little on-site reading to understand.

TwitterForce
TwitterForce is a robust, full-featured integrative tool for Salesforce and Twitter, offered through the Force.com Labs program. With this tool, you can create contacts, leads, and cases based on incoming Tweets, or import an entire twitter conversation thread. You’re also able to discover and track the latest trends by setting up custom search terms to monitor, then create contacts, leads, and cases from search results in one click. TwitterForce also allows you to easily send outbound tweets to leads and contacts, and save a record of your outbound tweets as activities on contacts, accounts, and leads.

TwitterMySite
With TwitterMySite, you can add a Twitter button to your blog or website and get more people to follow you. You can also customize the image with your twitter ID or any text you wish. The site has a number of attractive, original “follow me” buttons that you can use to create a custom look for Twitter on your blog.

TwoTweet
TwoTweet is a way to reward your biggest and most socially active fans by discounting your digital music for each Twitter follower they share it with. All you have to do is upload your music, set the price, choose your Twiscount and tell your fans.

Twtr2src
Twtr2src increases your productivity by allowing you options on how you want to receive your Twitter timeline. You can post tweets to Evernote or send updates by email automatically. You simply enter your username on the site and enter some details to set it up, and you’ll get updates without having to work hard at it.

View140
View140 is a sleek, simple image search for Twitter. It goes through most of the major Twitter image hosting services and seeks out images associated to your search terms.

What’s Your Tweet Worth?
What’s your Tweet Worth is a complementary service to TwittAd which determines the value of your profile. From @Twittad – get a feel for how valuable you might be to advertisers on Twitter. A fun add-on site to the Twittad offering.

Whos Talkin
WhosTalkin.com is a social media search tool that allows users to search for conversations surrounding the topics that they care about most. Whether it be your favorite sport, favorite food, celebrity, or your company’s brand name, Whostalkin.com helps people join in on the conversations. The goal of the site is to deliver the most relevant and current conversations happening in the world of social media, using search and sorting algorithms that combine data taken from over 60 of the internet’s most popular social media gateways.

YourVersion
YourVersion is a real-time discovery engine that continuously discovers new and relevant web content tailored to your specific interests in real-time. YourVersion also lets you easily share that content with your friends through email, Facebook and Twitter. YourVersion launched at the 2009 TechCrunch50 conference and won the People’s Choice Award.

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Brandwatch: Twitter Tool for Social Media Monitoring

February 20, 2011 By Jo Adair Leave a Comment

Brandwatch blows businesses away with Social Media Monitoring power

When operating an Internet-based business, your reputation is everything. Nobody knows or cares if you’re a nice guy; they just know what they see on the web. It is so important to monitor and protect your brand and its stature. Brandwatch is an effective Twitter tool that analyzes data across the social media, and presents its results in highly customizable ways.

Benefits:
” Discover negative coverage in social media monitoring and offset a bad impression.
” Discover more effective ways to promote your product.
” Monitor the reputation of your competition.
” Engage in market research to better understand your customer and his needs.
” Get the results in the format that best suits your needs.

There are four stages to building an effective social media monitoring strategy: gathering, filtering, analyzing and presenting data. This is how Brandwatch handles each stage.

Gathering Data: The Brandwatch crawler operates in near-real time, gathering data in response to your search from social networks, blogs and micro-blogs, news services, video sites, forums, and more. This provides a broad data base to work from. You can set the date ranges you need.

Filtering Data: Brandwatch uses intelligent filters to clean out irrelevant and outdated posts, as well as advertising and spam. Add your own filters to further refine the process.

Analyzing Data: Brandwatch runs the remaining data through a 5 point analysis process. This includes query matching and recurring phrase identification. One of the more ingenious processes analyzes the sentiment of the post.

Presenting Data: Clients can use the online dashboard to create custom reports, known as workspaces. Choose from many components to tailor reports exactly to your preferences. In addition to workspaces, you can download reports in excel workbook or CSV format.

Where does Twitter fit it? One of the components for customizing reports is to filter results by site, in this case Twitter. This will give you a real-time snapshot of public opinion on your search subject.

In order to create an effective marketing strategy, you need to determine the public perception of your brand. If you have had bad publicity lately, you really need a way to track public opinion as you rebuild your reputation. Brandwatch is a Twitter tool that accomplishes these goals.

What tools do you use in your social media monitoring campaign? Is Brandwatch one of them? Let us know your experience, good and bad, by adding a comment.

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Kanvaso: Five Free Twitter Productivity Tools In One

February 19, 2011 By Jo Adair Leave a Comment

Kanvaso - five Twitter productivity tools in one

Twitter is easy to use on its own, but Kanvaso makes it even simpler and more powerful. Kanvaso is a web-based application that adds many features to your Twitter experience. There are many free Twitter tools available; this is one of the best. Here are some of the features:

View media – A media player is included on the site so you can watch videos; or listen to music with song.ly. View pictures with your favorite apps, including Twitpic, Flickr and yFrog.

Share – Kanvaso has a panel of share buttons for the most popular social media sites, including Facebook, Digg and StumbleUpon. The ubiquitous TweetMeme button is also there.

Condense your tweet – go over the 140 character limit, Kanvaso will fit it into your Twitter account.

Show previous message – It is sometimes easier to craft a reply when you can see the original post. Kanvaso lets you do that.

Shorten a URL – Bit.ly is part of the package, so you know your links will be safe and functional.

Upload media – Adding photo and video links is a snap. You can upload your tweet and images using Twitpic, Plixi. Multiple image uploading is allowed.

In Page Browser – You don’t have to leave the page to open a URL. Click on it and an in-page browser will display the page.

Mute – You can mute someone you aren’t interested in listening to. This is different than blocking; just like on the phone, they can’t tell when they are muted.

Widget – Kanvaso provides a dashboard-like widget that displays the most common Twitter features, such as inbox and timeline. Stay up to date without leaving the page.

Geo Follow – Geo Follow uses Google maps to pin down the location of tweets. Locate activities and let your friends see where you are.

Kanvaso works best with Chrome, Safari, Opera, and Firefox. They are currently working on an application for mobile devices. This free Twitter tool assembles the most useful accessories for Twitter, and presents them in one simple package.

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Buzzom: A Twitter Tool for Marketing Management

February 13, 2011 By Jo Adair Leave a Comment

Buzzom offers a number of analytical tools for business

Buzzom is a powerful Twitter tool for marketing management using social media. It provides tools to create and monitor an effective social media marketing campaign and promote your product across a broad range of social media sites.

What is a Social Media Marketing Campaign?

This involves not only creating profiles in relevant social sites like Twitter and Facebook, but also engaging the online community with blogs and forum comments.

Create and Monitor Campaigns

Coming up with a marketing management strategy is a step by step process. Buzzom offers a product it calls Simplify360, which breaks it down into four phases:

1. Requirement Phase – What do you need to accomplish and when? Simplify360 will aid you in identifying your goals.

2. Research Phase – What is the marketability of your product and what is the competition in your niche? Simplify360 designs ways to research the feasibility of marketing your product.

3. Implementation Phase – Market your product using social media, interact with followers, and promote your product. Simplify360 offers innovative strategies involving social media sites, blogs, and forums.

4. Monitoring Phase – Track activity and create reports. This is one of Simplify360′s greatest advantages. It will collate and analyze data and offer an insightful, real-time interpretation of your marketing campaigns strengths, including where you can improve your productivity.

Benefits of Buzzom

Plug-ins available. Buzzom offers a way to interact quickly and effortlessly using your browser bar. There are plug-ins available for both Chrome and Firefox.

Schedule posts to social media. Simply enter your URL and choose when you want a post to appear on Facebook and Twitter.

Twitter badge for blog. Buzzom provides a page to design your own custom badge for your blog.

Content, comment, consider. These are three important actions when putting together a social media marketing campaign. Buzzom offers the tools to excel in business.

Do you use Buzzom? Let us know what you think of it, or tell us about the Twitter tool you use to manage your online marketing campaigns.

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Birdbrain: A Twitter Tool for iPhone

February 12, 2011 By Jo Adair Leave a Comment

Follow friends on your iPhone with Birdbrain

Tracking your friends and followers can be time consuming, especially on a mobile device. Birdbrain is a Twitter tool designed for iPhone that automates tracking, allowing you to decide if you are increasing your number of followers in a timely manner.

Birdbrain takes a snapshot of your follower and friend counts and displays changes over a chosen time period. This can be a day, a week, a two-week period, or a month. When you go to the summary page, you will see at a glance the number of followers you have, how many you have blocked, how many retweets you have gotten, and how many have updated their status. It also supports tracking tweets and mentions. Birdbrain automatically refreshes every 20 minutes while it is open.

There are buttons to list followers, following, and blocked tweeps. A plus symbol indicates they are new; a minus, that they were removed. If a number is displayed, this user was either removed before their details loaded or they have had their Twitter account suspended. You can track this daily in order to spot trends over time. When you tap on a user, you can see more information. Check out their timeline and follow, unfollow, or block them.

Birdbrain is a social media application that can also be used to follow multiple accounts. The application will segregate and store statistics for each account. There is also a search feature; you can find a username on Twitter, then view the bio and decide if you want to follow that person. Another useful tool is the ability to view who is not reciprocating on your following/follower lists.

One feature that would be useful is notification when someone starts or stops following. Knowing if your follower count is rising or falling is an important part of social media marketing. Staying on top of the numbers is essential to spotting trends and evaluating your effectiveness. This inexpensive iPhone application makes quick work of tracking your number of followers.

Do you use an iPhone? If you use Birdbrain or a different Twitter tool for the iPhone, let us know what you think of it in the comments below.

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New Applications – Week 6

February 7, 2011 By Marc Zeale 1 Comment

My Twitter Toolbox now has over 900 Twitter tools

This week we’ve added 35 new applications to our site!

My Twitter Toolbox is constantly seeking out the latest and greatest new applications for the benefit of our readers, who look for new ways to interact with our favorite site. Our growing list of Twitter tools is updated every week, so be sure to check back often to find helpful programs that help improve your social media experience.

This week’s entries include the following:

14 Blocks
14 Blocks looks into your followers activities to determine the most optimal times that you should tweet.Then you can schedule them or set up an auto-scheduler.

Breaking Tweets
Breaking Tweets is an independent news site that puts a spin on world news through the use of Twitter.The purpose of this site is to put a personal touch and human voice on news events around the world, help people enhance their worldview or perspective of global events, and increase dialogue about international news both on this site and on Twitter.

Brizzly Guide
It’s a little bit like “Twitter meets Wikipedia” – a human edited guide of in-the-moment trends, terms and goings on that surface on the site. The site shows trending topics for the moment and the week, and lists guides for special terms that reveal some interesting explanations and links for more information.

CelebrityTweet
This site is a portal for following celebrity tweets of interest. It shows a list of links to individual accounts of celebrities that tweet, and has a real-time update stream that shows what your favorite stars are saying their favorite social media site.

Chi.mp
Chi.mp gives you your own domain and Web site, in effect, your social hub. With chi.mp, you can bring together the many pieces of your digital life – your content and contacts – to create a central online presence, and you control who sees what. .

Connected
Connected is a personal relationship manager that brings all your contacts and conversations together in one place. It’s the easiest way to manage your most important relationships.Connected currently integrates with Gmail, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google Contacts, Google Calendar, and Google Voice.

Haro
HARO brings nearly 30,000 reporters and bloggers, over 100,000 news sources and thousands of small businesses together to tell their stories, promote their brands and sell their products and services. You can now tap into the largest source repository in the world with over 80,000 mainstreet and expert sources who will respond directly to your query on your terms. When you submit your query on the site, HARO delivers the perfect sources right to your inbox.

Isparade
On this site, enter any Twitter username to watch an animated “parade” of their followers marching, leaping, dancing a bit and occasionally tweeting. Click on any follower to see their last tweet and you have the option (in Japanese) of either creating a new parade of their followers or going to their page on Twitter.com.

iVoted
Voted.com is a simple text message voting application designed for live audiences. It is a simpler approach to more complicated, more expensive Audience Response Systems. People vote by sending text messages, email messages, or tweets using options defined by poll managers. The poll results are presented in real time.

Link Infinity
Link Infinity is a free application that connects you with others in ways not before possible. You can follow contacts across all social media, broadcast messages to multiple social networking sites, even utilize a custom widget to display your social bookmarks on your website. A free mobile version is also available.

Livefyre
Livefyre is a real-time social commenting platform built from the ground up for the social web. It replaces your outdated comment section with a live conversation stream. Users can tag their friends from Twitter and Facebook straight from the content. Comment voting, user ratings, and public profiles help build community around your site. Easy 2-step install in WordPress that takes less than 5 minutes.

Meetup
Meetup is the world’s largest network of local groups. Meetup makes it easy for anyone to organize a local group or find one of the thousands already meeting up face-to-face. More than 2,000 groups get together in local communities each day, each one with the goal of improving themselves or their communities. Meetup’s mission is to revitalize local community and help people around the world self-organize.

NetNewsWire
NetNewsWire is an RSS reader for iPhone – you can read news from the millions of weblogs and sites that publish RSS feeds.

Newborn Tweets
Newborn Tweets utilizes the Twitter API to allow public users to find their first tweet and compare it with other users’ first tweets by date, size, and other measures. In collecting this stream of information, Newborn Tweets hopes to develop a rich dataset that may reveal trends in reasons why users adopt and post public messages on social networks.

PlacePop
PlacePop’s virtual loyalty card lets any local business reward individuals or groups for their loyalty and/or collective visits. Rewards can include free stuff, special privileges, (e.g. free wi-fi for gold members), coupons and discounts only for card members, and donations to local nonprofit causes. Business owners can claim their free virtual card online and setup an iPhone loyalty program in just two minutes. ”

Relenta
Relenta is a premium productivity Twitter tool that handles social CRM and automatically aggregates all data associated with any business relationship into a chronological activity stream, giving you at-a-glance knowledge of where you stand. Relenta is designed so that once you log into the system, it takes no more than one click to perform any of your routine daily tasks (such as read/write/search for emails, schedule calendar events, assign tasks to co-workers, create/edit to-do lists, etc.

Secret Tweet
SecretTweet allows users to share secrets anonymously. There are currently 45,000+ loyal followers of @secrettweet and many more readers via the site itself. You can also keep up with news of the site via the blog (SecretTweet.com/updates).

Socio For Mobile
Socio is a game that measures your sociableness and compares it with that of other top sociables to recognize the elite extroverts. You earn points by using your favorite social networks. All you do is open Socio’s app and inform it of the social networks you currently use by clicking the appropriate check box. Then, you authorize Socio to track your updates, and use your social networks as normal.

Street Mavens
StreetMavens is an interactive real time city guide and business directory. You can explore thousands of cities all over the world and see what people are saying right now. StreetTalk is organized by category and trends are searchable locally. Business profiles allow multiple employees to manage a company account. You can create events and share photos as well. Twitter connected users also have access to a great interface to view their home page and @mentions right on the site.

Twackle
Twackle is an aggregator that organizes tweets about sports leagues, teams, athletes, events, and news in a single destination, while also tracking trending sports topics and the most-tweeted sports links. Bookmark your favorite feeds and respond directly to tweets within Twackle. Add your favorite feeds into an embeddable widget.

TwimeMachine
TwimeMachine allows you to easily browse through your old tweets (max 3200) to read what you said ages ago. It’s a simple search database for archived tweets that uses your Twitter ID to log in and retrieve what you probably already forgot you were tweeting about.

TwiTalker
This service provides an easy way for you to use Twitter “off-site.” You can send tweets and receive friends’ updates directly in Gtalk without having to login in your account.

Twitter Critter
Twitter Critter creates an avatar based on your Tweets. It analyses the text from your past 200 Tweets and uses that data to choose what colors and objects your Critter will be made of. See what kind of creature your Tweets will make, try it out with your friend’s profile, and come back after some heavy tweeting to see more of the thousands of possible combinations.

Twitter Sentiment
Twitter Sentiment is a powerful sentiment analysis tool. Research the positive and negative opinions about a product or brand. Created by Stanford graduate students. They use machine learning algorithms to perform the sentiment classification. You can read about our approach here: http://bit.ly/7m0sXj.

Twitter Statpack
Twitter Statpack is a Firfefox browser add-on, an enhancement for Twitter.com which helps further explain how someone is related to you. It compares the people you follow to the followers/following of a another profile, and shows you where they intersect. Note: Both Firefox and Mozilla Labs Jetpack are required for Statpack.

TwitterCard
A TwitterCard is a compact widget that acts as your Twitter business card on your website. Your TwitterCard introduces you by showing your recent status, your picture and your bio. You can either design the card on site or use their convenient WordPress widget to design from your blog.

TwitterSheep
This is a pretty interesting site. If you enter a Twitter ID (username) term, the application produces a word cloud from all the “bios” of that person’s followers.

txtReach
This premium client for business includes features to allow mutiple team members to manage a single account, set up notifications for tweet responses, review tweet stats and rankings, and shorten URLs using bit.ly.

UberTags
Tags are snippets of code that integrate content or functionality into a website. They’re used for web analytics, conversion tracking, A/B testing, live chat, surveys, widgets, ads, videos and more. UberTag’s Tag Management System drastically lowers tech costs associated with tagging and improves conversion rates.

Utah Tweets
This site allows users to view headlines from all of Utah’s relevant news organizations in one place. UtahTweets is the Internet’s first local news aggregator that sorts information from update streams into a variety of logical categories. This Utah news portal covers breaking news, daily headlines and other types of useful information, including Utah sports news, Utah weather news, news from Utah cities and news from Utah resorts.

Wanderlisting
Wanderlisting finds up-to-the-minute news, deals, tips and tales from the world’s leading travel experts, bloggers and explorers and presents them to you in one convenient location. It’s like your own constantly updated guidebook to the world of travel.

Website Grader
How well is your website doing? Is it getting traffic? Does it have SEO problems? How popular is it in social media? Find out the answers for free. Just enter your website URL and click Generate Report. The tool on this site does the rest. Free to try, buy to use regularly.

Who.Unfollowed.Me
Who.unfollowed.me is a web based application built by @cjgraphix that helps you track your unfollowers in real time, without waiting for a DM, or email. If you use the site, you can also follow @whounfollowedme on Twitter.

Xinu Returns
Xinu Returns offers a number of categories to rank and analyze your web URLs status in the marketplace. Enter your site’s URL and find out how well your site is doing in popular search engines, social bookmarking and other site statistics like indexed pages, backlinks, and more.

Zemanta
Zemanta is a new platform for accelerating on-line content production for any web user. Any user-created text (a blog post, article or web page) is directly “read” by Zemanta, which recognizes all contextual content. The tool then combs the web for the most relevant images, smart links, keywords and text, instantly serving these results to the user to enrich and inform their content. Zemanta can also be deployed on all major content publishing platforms and web browsers through a simple plug-in.

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Follow Your Followers with SocialToo

February 6, 2011 By Jo Adair Leave a Comment

SocialToo helps tweeps attract the right followers

Entrepreneurs who use social media for marketing face a dilemma as they acquire numerous followers. While you need to get your message out to the people truly interested in what you have to say, having a following loaded with spammers and bots does not help build anything.

SocialToo is a Twitter tool that helps you manage your social networks and focus on relationships without the chaos of unnecessary noise.

SocialToo offers automatic following of the Twitter accounts that follow you and, for a small fee, will sync those you currently follow into the list. It will also automatically unfollow accounts it perceives to be spammers. If you want more control, you don’t need to use the autofollow feature. Simply forward the Twitter e-mails that state you have a new follower and SocialToo will follow those individuals instantly.

You can compose personal filters to block direct messages you don’t wish to receive. SocialToo replaces the e-mails you get from Twitter with one that includes useful information about the user, making your decision-making process easier.

SocialToo also provides you with a unique URL that redirects your friends to your Facebook profile, a handy tool if you use a business name rather than your own.

A daily email will let you keep track of new followers and those who have unfollowed you. This email displays the tweets posted within the same timeframe. You can follow or unfollow users from within this daily email.

This powerful Twitter tool is also capable of creating online surveys and polls and posting them to Twitter, Facebook, and FriendFeed. This can be a dynamic way to collect and collate information from your followers.

SocialToo offers basic and premium services. The upgrade includes support for multiple Twitter accounts and additional filters, including the tweet’s source and content. It also offers tweet archiving and historic statistical data from their daily emails. Additional features include bulk unfollow, autofollow sync, and more. You can also take advantage of their 7-day free trial.

SocialToo makes following the right people and unfollowing the wrong people a snap. Leave yourself more time for the profitable parts of running an online business.

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Find the Stories That Interest You with ReStream.me

February 5, 2011 By Jo Adair Leave a Comment

Restream.me recommends news that suits you

The information highway is so broad now, there is no way to keep up to the feeds you want to stay on top of. Or is there? What you need is a way to filter the junk from the news stories you are interested in and a way to keep the good stuff from getting buried by the never-ending stream of new content.

ReStream.me is a comprehensive Twitter application that recommends news stories, articles, and blog posts that match your interests. There are other tools out there that will consolidate the news into one feed, but ReStream.me does more. It provides feeds of the web pages that interest you, as well as recommending content based on the tags you choose.

When you favorite someone in ReStream.me, they are added to a Twitter list called ReStreamFavs. You can use any of your Twitter apps to view this list. If it finds content that matches your interests, ReStream.me will send you up to two Tweets per hour.

There is a Relevancy Score (RScore) that will tell you how relevant the content is to you. This is determined by your tags and also by who and what you’ve favorited on Twitter. A good content match is indicated by a high RScore. Links shared by your favorites also receive a high RScore. You can see how many of your friends shared the link and what they said.

ReStream.me also offers three useful bookmarklets.

Fav-To-Twitter lets you save any web page you are on as a Twitter favorite.
Send-To-Twitter lets you tweet any link without leaving the page you’re on.
Tweet Grabber lets you easily copy and paste the html code for any tweet you want to share.

ReStream.me is currently free. In the future, there may be a small charge, but current users will be grandfathered in. A mobile application is offered which can be used on a smart phone or as a desktop application.

You need a powerful tool to filter the river of information available down to a manageable stream. ReStream.me is a valuable asset in the battle against drowning in a sea of knowledge.

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