Posted: July 22nd, 2010 | Author: Chris Norton | Filed under: Twitter Apps, Twitter Management, Twitter Tool | Tags: twitoaster, Twitter app, twitter conversations, Twitter Tool | 1 Comment »
This week I have been using a tool I found called twitoaster. Basically it helps you see the threads of your conversations in one place and gives you a few statistics from your tweets.
This is how it pitches itself:
“Twitoaster threads and archives your twitter conversations, bringing you all the background, context and statistics you need. It’s all about improving & optimizing the way you communicate with your followers. It groups replies and retweets with the tweets that inspired them, displaying threaded discussions. Twitoaster provides analytics and statistics, helping you to tweet at the right time. It also archives and indexes all your conversations in a conversational search engine.”
This tool is the brainchild of Arnaud Meunier from Paris who now works for Twitter, so he must have done his job on this application pretty well. However, he made this great tool back in 2009 and is now focussed on his work with Twitter (According 
to the blog) so it says the application is unlikely to evolve much.
I think this is a useful little twitter application that presents your conversations easily. On the downside I think the RT statistics it presents could be a little out as the way Twitter produces these did change recently. So I think it might miss some of those, however, that said for a free application I think it is worth a play. One of my favourite elements is the graphs that tell you the best day of the week and hour of the day although for us these statistics were a little out.
What do you think of Twitoaster?
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Posted: July 13th, 2010 | Author: Illiya Vjestica | Filed under: Twitter Management | 3 Comments »
Nobody likes a noisy neighbor, it has got to be one of the most annoying things on this planet earth. What about Twitter though? Are you tired of seeing the same Twitter user pop up in your Twitter stream like an annoying wasp or bee buzzing away?
Try Muuter, with it your problem is solved. Muuter, allows you to mute your friends on Twitter when they become too noisy for your own tastes. Sounds like a great idea, let’s take a look how it all works and what other features are available.
Muuter
Muuter works by signing into your Twitter account, once complete it will allow you to manually select a Twitter user your following, or this can be done automatically by using keywords to identify the Twitter user. Muuter then unfollows the muted Twitter user from your account for a specific period of time and then refollows them once that period of time is completed.
If that person is still Tweeting far too much for your liking, you can manually unfollow them using Twitter itself.
You can choose to Mute someone for an hour, or longer like a week, if you really feel like it. Or if you are really cruel, you can publicly tweet that you’ve muted this person and even worse you can tell them directly.
I’m not going to show you a screenshot here because I’ve muted one or two Twitter followers who have a tendency to post over 20 times plus a day. Some words of advice to you all, we all love Twitter but if you don’t want to be muted yourself then don’t post more than a couple of times a day. Nobody wants to hear from someone who tweets 30 times a day, it’s too much. Don’t do it!
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Posted: July 5th, 2010 | Author: Chris Norton | Filed under: Cleansing tools, Tweasier, Twitter Apps, Twitter Management, Twitter Tool | Tags: Tweasier, Twitter app, twitter management application, Twitter Tool | 1 Comment »
For the last nine months I have been working on creating a Twitter management application that added value to the Twitter experience. The application, called Tweasier, is currently in beta testing and has several hundred people using it on a daily basis – I have found their feedback absolutely invaluable and I now recognise the importance of having a beta period. During these nine months I have seen a variety of Twitter applications have their services or features throttled by Twitter and I have been asking myself why?
A good example of this was Twitter Karma which allowed the average Twitter user to sort their friends by people who were following them back. It was a useful tool which meant that you could cleanse your account from time to time and keep the numbers down to a reasonable and manageable level.
Sometimes people you follow, just stop using Twitter altogether, so a spring clean can be effective.
As Twitter has grown, so has the noise in an average users Twitter account. The early adopters of Twitter used to see pretty much everybody’s tweets but now, as there are so many interesting and insightful people out there to follow, you can occasionally miss an important tweet or two. For a news junkie like myself I hate to think that but that’s the way it is on Twitter these days and we have all come to accept it.
Too Many Fail Whales
Twitter has had a bit of a bad run recently launching a few new features which have stumbled and cause the network to break down on regular occasions. Sometimes I actually feel I might as well start having a relationship with the FAIL WHALE as I see him more often that my own account. However, this has prompted Twitter to reduce the limit of requests third-party-applications like Tweasier, Tweetdeck and Hootsuite can make it to its API (down to 175).
By doing this applications have become much less stable and I personally think this may well start affecting the user’s relationship and love for the network.
My Advice to Twitter
So my first bit of advice to Twitter is to sort the stability of the network out and return the trust to the users and the developers which have helped make Twitter as popular as it is toady.
My second piece of advice is to re-examine bringing back bulk unfollowing. Now don’t get me wrong I am not a spammer and I don’t believe in spamming but surely there is a better way to stop Twitter spammers than removing the usefulness of bulk unfollowing from all third-party applications.
Twitter actually changed its rules and now only allows single line unfollowing. In my opinion this is wrong, so please bring back features like bulk unfollowing, so the regular users can trim their accounts when they need trimming otherwise it makes it a far harder process to spring clean an account and people will be following dead accounts which is surely a bad thing for Twitter anyway.
My answer to stopping the spammers is simple, when a users syncs their account with an application their details are kept in the user’s profile. Why then can’t Twitter just have something that flags up when an account is growing and reducing at an alarming rate using one of these applications? Ban these guys whose accounts fluctuate and keep the users happy by giving us back a useful features.
I would love to offer Tweasier’s users the capacity to select all but the way the rules stand that won’t be the case for some time.
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Posted: June 9th, 2010 | Author: Chris Norton | Filed under: General Twitter, Tweasier, Twitter Apps, Twitter Management, Twitter Tool | Tags: Tweasier, Tweasier walkthrough video, Twitter app, twitter management application, Twitter Tool | 1 Comment »
Well the time has finally arrived and Tweasier is entering the first stages of beta testing.
The idea for Tweasier came from an idea after I started blogging here specifically just about useful Twitter tools. The Tweasier blog started to grow in stature and popularity and I started to think that maybe a tool should be developed which has some really great features. I suppose you could say it’s because of you guys.
The application is only in beta testing (so please be gentle) but we are hoping you guys (its users) will help us find the nasty bugs so we can eradicate as many as possible before we launch this tool to the world.
The new Tweasier application is packed with helpful services, allowing Twitter users to do any of the following:
- Run, save and clone Twitter searches based on location, keywords and personal biographies so conversations can be monitored.
- Receive personalised email notifications informing the user about their activity within the Twittersphere
- Visit Tweasier’s fully equipped analytics suite – providing more than 30 different up-to-date statistics on any Twitter account. Some of the graphs and data can also be exported for use in future presentations or reports.
- Sort an account’s friends or followers by more than 20 different criteria such as: people that haven’t tweeted in the last 30 days, people that didn’t follow the user back and also prune your friends to clear an account up if necessary.
- Users can take a quick peek at Twitter conversations between two people to get both sides of the story.
- Users can read messages, tweet, direct message and even shorten long URLs using Tweasier’s dedicated Twitter client.
- Scheduled tweeting – users can write and save several tweets until later in the day
- Users can use Tweasier’s own in-house ranking system which easily shows whether a user is worth following or not
For those of you more social, you can like Tweasier on Facebook, follow us on Twitter or simply subscribe to the blog.
I hope you like Tweasier but if you have any questions, feel free to drop me or one of the team a line. If you would like an invite email me.
We will look forward to hearing what you guys think of it.
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Posted: May 21st, 2010 | Author: Illiya Vjestica | Filed under: Cleansing tools, Twitter Management, Twitter Tool | Tags: twitter, Twitter Management, Twitter Tool | No Comments »
Today the Tweasier blog presents, one of my most favourite Twitter tools that I frequently used in the early months of my Twitter experience. Friendorfollow.com is a great Twitter cleansing and simple analysis tool allowing you to see the following:
- Who’s not following you back on Twitter?
- Who are you not following back?
- Who are your mutual friends? Find out!
These are the big questions every Twitter user wants to know straight answers to.
These people don’t follow me back
Following section
The great thing about FriendorFollow, is it allows you to quickly access the Twitter accounts who aren’t following you. Of course not every account is going to follow you back, some celebrities for example probably won’t give you the time or day. I wonder though, who are those individuals that you thought were following you back and actually aren’t. This is where FriendorFollow comes to the rescue!
Sort by feature
A cool feature on Friendorfollow.com is the drop down menu that allows you to sort Twitter accounts for the following
- By Username
- Name
- Location
- Followers
- Following
- Last Tweet
- Account age
It is a nice little feature that lets you analyse your Twitter following with more depth and certainly helps if your looking to clean up your profile.
Your fans
Your fans are Twitter accounts that are following your profile although you don’t follow them back. My personal account @kungfudigital has 435 people following me who I don’t follow back.
Your friends
These are the accounts who are following your profile and who you follow back. In this section, I have about 238 people who I follow and who follow me back.
Limitations
With all free apps there are certain limitations. In FriendorFollow’s case to remove a Twitter follower from your account you need to click on the invidual profile icon first. Having login into Twitter already, you can then remove the user manually by using Twitter’s unfollow functionality.
Conclusion
Overall though, Friendorfollow.com is a useful little tool for quickly analysing your Twitter following. If your looking for a Twitter tool that goes more in depth into the managment and analysis of your Twitter account, then stay tuned and watch this space…
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Posted: February 3rd, 2010 | Author: Paul Crouch | Filed under: General Twitter, Twitter Apps, Twitter Management, Twitter Tool | No Comments »
To get the most out of Twitter you need to follow people who are going to tweet about things that interest you and with whom you can interact. The problem is 
that there are thousands of twitter users around simply using their accounts to push out marketing links or who are just cleverly designed bots created to look like legitimate users.
One way to avoid following fake accounts and clogging up your news stream is with Twerpscan, a site devoted to investigating users and judging whether or not they are spam. Just type in a username and it will give you a full drill down of the user’s activity and wider online identity.
The results are split down into percentages telling you how much the user retweets, uses links and replies to others. On top of that you can see how quickly the user is accruing followers and Twerpscan will warn you if it thinks there is anything suspicious about the account (Stephen Fry, for instance, is adding new friends at an alarming rate).
You can also see the past 20 tweets and any other sites the user maintains online, all of which means you can decide at a glance if your newest follower is friend or foe.
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This week I have been using a tool I found called twitoaster. Basically it helps you see the threads of your conversations in one place and gives you a few statistics from your tweets.
