Archive for March, 2009

Today we’re going to talk about tools that’ll help you get info from twitter to use for market research, your curiosity, new blog posts, statistics, etc (leave it to your imagination)

  • TweetScan – They claim to be an all-in-one solution. It can search on twitter, identi.ca and many more.
  • Retweetist – If you’re ranked on this website, this means your tweet is being retweeted a lot
  • TwitBuzz.com – It was suffering last time when I tried it
  • TwitScoop – Hottest twitter trends
  • TweetBeep – Keep track of you conversations, your messages, etc
  • TweetNews – News ranked based on related tweets
  • Monitter – Real Time twitter monitor

Enjoy! :)

Tweetme For Other Platforms

Hi

For those of you who asked for a tweetme button valid for other platforms (other than wordpress), good news. It’s here.

Installation instructions:

  • download the zip from here
  • inside that zip there’s an index.html file. Open it with notepad or whatever and select everything inside
  • paste the copied text into your pages (of course, if your platform supports this – it’s best to ask first)
  • you’re good to go

Cheers

PS:

  • It’s platform independent. If you haveĀ  a browser, it should work
  • If anything goes wrong or you discover any bug, report here

Manage your tweeties and find more using these services.

  • TwitterLocal – Filter tweets by location
  • FellowCost – Find out how annoying will be to follow a specific user on twitter. Pretty funny :)
  • TweetWheel – Find out how many of your friends know each other
  • Qwitter – Sends you a message when someone stops following you on twitter. Useful if you don’t have thousands of followers. And I hope it doesn’t do it by crawling all your followers …
  • Who should I follow – Gives you suggestions of who you should follow by studying your tweets (I think)
  • SocialToo – I’ve said before about this. It’s pretty cool, you can auto follow your latest followers or send them direct messages. It also gives daily reports on who followed or unfollowed you during the last 24hrs
  • Tweepler – Uhm … not very impressed with this one. I’d love a bulk remove feature for those who aren’t following me. Guys, if you see this, add it. PS: I like your color scheme
  • TwitDir – Off for maintenance, lol. I’m feeling that “site down” effect again.
  • Tweelow – Twitter yellow pages (never thought I’ll see this)
  • Just Tweet It – Find other twitters like you ( I think based on your posts).

Anyway, play with them and let me know which one to delete :)

- Peter

Save your time and resources using these tools I’m going to name today.

  • TweetDeck – it has tome interesting functions that will help you be more efficient in following people you really want to follow… and it’s stealth :)
  • TwitResponse – twitter+autoresponder = twitresponse
  • Tweet O’Clock – will help you find the best time to get your followers attention. Find out when it’s the best time to tweet someone
  • TweepSearch – search through your followers
  • FriendOrFollow – who’s not following you back? who aren’t you following?
  • Twalala – If you’re getting spammed with lots of stupid messages, you can put some of your friends on mute using this tool
  • TwitterSnooze – almost the same with twalala
  • JustSignal.com – filter the tweets and receive only the ones you’re interested in, based on certain keywords.

Enjoy, and don’t forget to signup to be updated when a new post is made on this list.

- Peter

TweetMe Plugin For WordPress Just Got Released

Hey, tweeple.

I just finished my newest plugin named “TweetMe”.

Features:

  • it adds a tweet me button at the end of each post (just like it does on this post)
  • it automatically sends you to your update page on twitter (after that you just have to push submit)
  • it automatically shrinks the URL to a short one (so you don’t have to worry about the 140 chars limit anymore)
  • all your visitors will be able to share your URL on twitter with a total of 2 clicks
  • it’s very light (only few kb… ridiculous small actually)

Click here to download TweetMe for WordPress

Cheers

Twitter Tools – Part 4 – Sharing Tools

Hey :)

This is the 4th part of the twitter tools sharing process. In total, I think there will be around 14 or 15 posts related to twitter on this blog, so make sure you bookmark it .

Ok, today’s topic: sharing tools – I am going to name a few websites that will help you promote your business, share links and picture, etc … so, here we go:

  1. Tweetburner – Create links, share links and track them (only if you’re registered)
  2. OdURL – URL Shrink service again. It doesn’t have analytics yet, but it outputs very short urls
  3. Ping.fm – Update all your social networks at once
  4. TweeTube – Like its name says “share videos on twitter”
  5. TwitPic – Image sharing for twitter … moving to a new datacenter lol … why is everybody down when I check them?
  6. Ioj – An alternative to twitpic. I didn’t test it, let me know if it’s any good :)
  7. TwitterHawk – They say it is arguably the most targeted marketing that you can take advantage of .. let’s see
  8. Acamin – File sharing again
  9. Twiggit – twiggit is an automated service that lets your friends on twitter know what articles you digg.

Got 2 more from my twitter friends (both image sharing sites) :

  1. Tinypic
  2. SnapTweet

That’s it for today. Happy twitting ;)

Cheers!

Ready for the next set? The post name says everything, so here you go:

  1. My Tweeple – Using this tool, you can manage your followers and who you’re following.
  2. Twitter100 – Almost the same. Check your followers
  3. TwitterLocal – Helps you get tweets from a specific geographic area
  4. FriendFeed – See what your tweeple are sharing now
  5. Twitter Karma – Helps you manage your followers, who you’re following and gives you the possibility to bulk remove them. To be hones, I didn’t see it working lately, or maybe
  6. Quotably – Follow Twitter Conversations (I didn’t really test this)
  7. TweetMeme – Hottest stories on twitter
  8. TwitterWho – It’s temporarily disabled right now, you might want to check it later
  9. GroupTweet – Group message broadcasting for Twitter
  10. Who Should I Follow – Suggestions on interesting people to follow.
  11. TweetWheel – Find out which of your Twitter friends know each other!

There were few more, but they weren’t up or running fine, so I didn’t include them in this list. Enjoy and share it

As promised, here’s the part 2 of this short e-course. Today we’re going to talk about tools that help you analyse your twitter data and your friends stats.

So, here we go:

  1. Retweetrank – A nice tool to find out how many people are retweeting you and how many retweet others.
  2. Twitterholic – By using this tool, you can find out the most active twitter users and discover your twitter stats as well. It’s cool, check it out.
  3. TweetStats – Like its name says, a twitter stats tool, with graphs & stuff … cool as well
  4. TweetWasters – This can really help you optimize your time spent because it calculates the time you spend and … waste on twitter :)
  5. Tweet-Rank – Tweak your tweets quality by using this tool and noticing which one generated you new followers and which one let you without some of them

I think 5 of them is enough for now, I’ll post the next small collection tomorrow or the day after. You have enough time to test and play with these ones until then.

Take care

If you have a website, then you might find the following info useful:

Most of your visitors will leave your site after only few seconds. Actually, this percentage is really high for many of the websites. It’s over 70%-80% and it happens within the first 5-6 seconds. Of course, unless you do something about it.

Some of the possible reasons would be:
- your visitor isn’t really interested on your information or what you have to offer
- your visitor landed on your website by mistake
- your headline(s) are weak quality
- your website quality is poor
- bad formatting
- too expensive product
- bad grammar?!

Possible solutions:
- try to target your traffic, so the people who land there really are into what you have to offer
- tweak & test your headline, formatting and elements positioning
- get a kickass website design
- use a dhtml popup engine to grab your visitors attention

Do you think you know other possible reasons? Did you track/test your audience? Do you have in mind other possible solutions? Then reply on twitter to @spreaditfast , I’ll be happy to have a chat with you on this topic. If you don’t have a twitter account simply create one, it only takes few seconds, or go to our blog and comment to this thread

SuperLinkMe.com

I want to introduce you to SuperLinkMe.com.

You’d wanna use it if:

  • 140 characters are just not enough for a life story or what goes through your mind at that moment
  • you want to share a store with your twitter friends and don’t have a blog or a website
  • you want to share a link and make it short
  • you need to cloack a link so others don’t see its final target

Check the URL: http://superlinkme.com

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