Archive for the ‘Micro-Blogging’ Category

Its only been a few days since Twitter rolled out its Twitter lists features to all users, but already a directory of popular lists has emerged.
Discover Lists
Using Listorious you can discover the most popular Twitter lists and search for lists of interest.
Twitter lists provide a great way to expand the people you follow without letting [...]

Thursday June 18, 2009 03:01

Put Twitter Search in Tabs

TweetTabs provides an interface similar to Tweetdeck – but solely for Twitter search.  Plus its browser based.
If you track multiple search terms on Twitter like I do, then a tool like this is really useful.  It puts all the info in one page and scanning for new entries is dead simple.
TweetTabs is really simple – [...]

Tuesday June 9, 2009 03:32

Sell Your Twitter with Super Chirp!

Super Chirp is a new service that allows you to charge people for viewing your Twitter stream.
Now I know what you’re thinking! Why would anyone want to pay to look at your Twitter?  But, this could be useful for offering some premium content.  Im sure celebrity users could also find a few peeps to pay.
This [...]

Sunday June 7, 2009 05:30

Twitter for your Team

I run a team of developers, bloggers and designers for Task.fm.  They are based all over the world, from Switzerland right across to Australia.  We all work different hours and are doing 10 things at once.
So communicating on email is starting to get hetic.  One of the tools im trying to get the team to [...]

Saturday May 9, 2009 00:02

Struggling to Get Twitter Followers: Buy Em

So you’ve tried all the usual ways to get Twitter Followers and even the more dodgy methods, but you still can’t get any followers!  Well you could try buying em.
Featured Users is a Twitter advertising network that you can use to give your profile more exposure and hopefully pick up new followers along the way.
You [...]

Saturday April 18, 2009 07:19

Where do you Rank on Twitter?

TwitRank will give you a score or rank out of 10 for your Twitter profile.
Where actually not sure how it calculates the score (my profile got a 5/10), but what we do know is there are plenty of other tools which do the same thing but much better.
What is good about TwitRank.me is the sites [...]

Sunday March 22, 2009 18:07

WeFollow, Tweeps Get a Directory

WeFollow is a Twitter directory cretaed by Digg founder Kevin Rose
This isn’t the first directory of Twitter users, in fact there have been a swarm of directories before it.  But,  we dig the simple and effctive way WeFollow uses to add Tweeps to its directory.
Instead of having to fill out a form on the actual [...]

Sunday March 1, 2009 16:36

Discover the Best Time to Tweet Someone

Tweet O’Clock is a simple application that will tell you what the best day and time of day to tweet someone.
Simply enter the users Twitter username on the site and it will calculate the best time based on the time day the user tweets most.
p.s 10pm on a Wednesday probably isn’t the best time to [...]

Tuesday February 10, 2009 05:01

Backup Your Twitter with TweetBackup

Ok, so personally I don’t value my Tweets enough to have them backed up – but others might.  TweetBackup will backup all your Tweets on a daily basis.
However there are a few flaws with this concept.  Firstly the idea of doing a backup is so that you can restore the data if something goes wrong.  [...]