Digging Through The Trash for Twitter Stories
Posted on 15. Mar, 2009 by Brad in Social Media | Twitter: @bradhart |
I just submitted a story on twitter tools to dig and was looking through the are you sure this is original screen when I saw quite a few interesting stories I thought need mentioning.
TwitCapt is a new tool I wasn’t familiar with but one I will certainly check out.
March 14th, 2009
I’ve just launched the first version of my Twitter Viral Marketing plugin. It’s still in the early stages, but contains more than enough features to help your message go viral should you have enough people to get to “Critical Mass”.
Twitter 3D wasn’t by any means in the Digg Dustbin with 1700 diggs but it was a cool thing to play with. http://twittervision.com/maps/show_3d
There was also this nice little article on using Twitter Search into a lead generator for small business.
Twitter Jobcast was a very cool site that let you sift through potential jobs.
We Follow is an interesting directory tool. I don’t know how I can use this yet to increase my own presence, but it certainly has potential on first look.
Hook USA has a nice little list of tools sorted out by category.
Tweeter Getter is another interesting tool for getting mass number of followers if it works. I am going to run a test with my new sites that have their own twitter accounts. Look for it in the future.
iStuff keeps a well organized list of web applications. I haven’t gone through his entire list yet but it covers 38 posts. I know what I will be doing this week in that exorbitant amount of free time I have.
Dream Systems Media has an excellent post about when Twitter promos come back to bite you in your ass.
On a not so hot post that belonged in the Digg dustbin I did find a link to a really great Mashable article on using Twitter for job hunting.
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Stephan Miller@Kansas City Web Developer
18. Mar, 2009
I think the Twitter directories do help a bit. I notice a surge of new followers after each submission. When I was new to Twitter I used directories like that to find people to follow. Now I don’t do too much looking. I mainly follow people who have followed me, if they have valuable tweets.
Urlauber
19. Mar, 2009
i follow most times the peoples who followed me , its interesting to see who followed u but in the last time i dont follow so many who doesnt followed me.
Sportfan
20. Mar, 2009
first time i followed most link too but then it was getting to much and now i follow only people who followed me and the one who looks interesting.
Lifestyler
20. Mar, 2009
im new in twitter and follow most the links which are looking interesting, not so often the ones who followed me yet but maybe i should follow them more too.
Scripter
24. Mar, 2009
i use twitter now for some weeks and i like it and i follow alot of people but the poeple doesn’t follow me so much, how much? you guys got any advice how i could get more follows.
Brad
18. Mar, 2009
I’ve never really used twitter directories to attract followers and that might be why I took so long getting started with twitter. When i was first getting started I randomly followed people and then some people they were following, usually the ones with hot women icons. I still do this on occasion to attract new followers. For every 4 people I follow within a week I usually net 5 new followers for every two people who follow me back. Some of my best twitter friends are coming from from those secondary followers.
This method does cause a bit of problems if you don’t keep up on unfollowing unproductive people. I just ran into a new tool last night Friend or Follow that lets you check which of the people you follow aren’t following you back. I was amazed at how many people I have in my list that weren’t following me, nearly 20% Some were easy to understand like the news organizations etc, but later on I am going to make a serious attempt to weed out some of them.
http://friendorfollow.com/
Stephan Miller@Kansas City Web Developer
18. Mar, 2009
It’s a mess. I follow about 1000 people and haven’t tried to clean it up yet. But I am a follower and followee, so I don’t mind if some of the people that follow me don’t return the favor. I usually check out the tweets first. But there was a time back there that I signed up for one service or another that automatically followed people without my knowledge, so there is still a mess.
Stephan Miller’s last blog post..Beating the Hare or How Not to End Up in the Mental Ward
brad
20. Mar, 2009
If you don’t already use I highly recommend tweetdeck you can sort out all the people you follow, your replies and direct messages. You are right, there is some people who are interesting to follow even if they don’t follow in return and some I wouldn’t expect a follow from like news agencies, though for some reason cnn financial follows me. There are other people who you follow and don’t followback who are valuable to follow like Scoble, or Darren Rowse. As often as not replying to or rt their messages can get you some more interesting followers.
In the end you probably don’t have to worry about who is and isn’t following you back until you reach the following 2000 mark.
Brad
20. Mar, 2009
follow quite a few people when you are new and you will quickly find out who you want to keep following.
Brad
24. Mar, 2009
The best way to gain followers is to be a good one yourself. Follow a few dozen new random people a day and engage in conversations and start them yourself. I suggest using tweetdeck for this. At the end of the week you will have started building your inner circle of friends.
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