Four Twitter Tools to Make Your Followers Happy

Posted: October 11th, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Twitter Tool | Tags: , , , , , , | 2 Comments »

There are a lot of Twitter apps out there for managing your account, tracking and sorting followers, using lists, and enhancing your ability to market your business. New apps pop up daily, and the lists just keep on growing.

I’ve done a few posts on these various Twitter tools, typically focused on extending the way you use Twitter and helping you get more out of it as a participant. For example:

Today, instead of focusing on apps that only benefit you directly, I dug up a few tools focused on making your followers happy. Here are a few of the best tools your followers can use (or you can use for your followers) to improve the Twitter experience.

Link Different

Link Different allows you to check if a link has already appeared in your followers’ streams so you can provide fresh content and keep your followers engaged. To use the tool, you install a bookmarklet and click it from any page before sharing the link with your followers.

Muuter

Muuter lets you mute Twitter users individually by manually selecting a user, or automatically by identifying keywords. Although the service actually unfollows the muted party from your account for a specific period of time and then refollows them, it works like simply muting someone with the benefit of not forgetting to refollow later on. You can use Direct Messages from any app or device, including SMS, to initiate a mute.

Tweetizen

Tweetizen is a web-based tool designed to help you filter the daily influx of tweets, and find the ones that are relevant to you. You can use Tweetizen to create Twitter groups, filter tweets and invite others to join your group. You can also embed your groups on your own website and blog.

twtQpon

twtQpon allows you to create a Twitter coupon to share with your followers. This can be a great way to promote a product or service by providing followers with an incentive to purchase. To use the service, create an coupon on the twtQpon site, and a tweet goes out with a link that takes people back to your website to redeem the coupon.

What follower-focused app would you add to the list?

This article originally appeared on sitepoint and was written by Alyssa Gregory we would like to thank Alyssa and Lisa Lang for giving us permission to use it on the Tweasier blog.

Nsight a twitter tool that allows you to search the Twitter archives

Posted: September 1st, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Twitter Tool | Tags: , , | No Comments »

Social media aggregator Nsyght caused a stir last week with the launch of a new feature aimed at serious Twitter users: the ability to search the archives of people you follow.

Users of the first feature can look for all references to – and comments on – particular topics made within their Twitter lists. For example, you can search for all references to PR within a media list, or references to Apple within a technology list.Nsight

Currently, the Nsyght lists feature can only search for tweets posted within the last couple of months, although it may be eventually extended further back in time. The feature also works across other social media: specifically Last.fm, Delicious, Flickr, StumbleUpon, Facebook, Digg and MySpace, allowing those topic searches to go truly multimedia. You can, for example, narrow your search down to all references to photos or videos on a specific topic – a company event, a presentation, a keynote, a YouTube video, etc.

The business potential is obvious: with social media an increasing focus of attention for B2C companies, brands could use Nsyght to quickly and easily keep track of what is being said about them across the web.

Sounds great, right? Unfortunately the registration function doesn’t appear to be working at the moment. Hopefully a temporary blip – I have my eye on this site!

This was a guest post by Cameron Patterson, a writer and PR professional with a big interest in Twitter and social media in general.

A twitter app that tells you which tweets turn your followers off and on

Posted: August 2nd, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Twitter Apps, Twitter Tool | Tags: , , , | 2 Comments »

imageI have been playing with TweetEffect this morning which is a new twitter application that tells you which tweets helped you gain and lose followers. I find this app rather egotistical and I think you could over analyse yourself after reading it.

You insert your Twitter username and it then processes your tweets and brings back a list of your tweets in chronological order. If they are highlighted in green you gained followers and if they are highlighted in red you lost them.

I used it on the @tweasier twitter stream and it told me that overall we had lost 79 followers recently. Note to self, I must be more interesting and write interesting tweets. lol

Tweeteffect describes itself in the following manner:

Simply enter your twitter name and we analyze your 200 latest updates and flag those up that made people follow or leave you.

Of course there are more factors that make people come or go, but it is an interesting indicator about the effect your tweet might have had on the world.

you could call it a hack to try out some of the Twitter API functionality mixed with free Yahoo and Google services. Maybe this will go places, maybe it won’t.

I think this is a nice little app that could be useful if you were using lots of Twitter accounts and you needed to why your followers were leaving. However, I would advise all users of this twitter tool to be thick skinned and use it as an indicator but not as gospel. Personally, I don’t unfollow people based on one tweet it tends to be when that person has tweeted too many salesy messages or tweets far far too much. If you want advice on how to tweet properly here are our beginners tips and our post on why people don’t follow you on Twitter.

What do you think of Tweeteffect?