Likemytweets.com – Get the Like Button for Twitter

Hey all, how is everyone doing? Nice to be back on the Tweasier blog.

Today I bring you Likemytweets.com, is a website that provides you with a like button for Twitter.

How it works?

1. Post a tweet from any twitter client. Your tweets will be modified by likemytweets. See example
2. Your followers click on the link to like the tweet.
3. You will be notified when a user likes your tweet.

If you “like” many posts and updates on Facebook, you’ll probably enjoy this tool. I can see this being a really useful tool for some Twitter users, I’m not sure how much I’d use it personally, but it gives you extra indication on how interesting or relevant a Tweet is to your followers.

About this blog post

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Mentionmap: looks good, is useful

The hardest part of building your Twitter presence is finding your first few relevant friends amongst the millions of Twitterers, but never fear because the Tweasier team is here. The most useful tool I’ve come across to find your audience is Mentionmap; a visual mapping app which presents a users network based on who they @ in a handy spider diagram.

There are plenty of network mapping tools around but most base themselves on who your friends follow not who they @, the problem with that is many people can have thousands of followers but only ever talk to ten of them meaning knowing their whole network is useless. Mentionmap on the other hand highlights who a user @’s most often and who the next user in the network  @’s creating a full network twitterers engaged in regular conversation for you to follow.

This is great if your looking to find relevant networks quickly, you only need to know one user tweeting about your area of interest and mentionmap will unlock a full network of twitterers for you to follow and begin tweeting with at will.

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Add your friends to your Twitter background

Twilk.com is a clever little application that enables you to have all of your Twitter friends faces as a background for your profile. The default makes it the people you follow but you can select it to be your followers too.

It sorts people by how much you mention their user name (@ replies, retweets, etc) in your Twitter stream. It starts in the first two columns on the left, from top to bottom, left, right, left, right. If you mention people the same amount (or not at all), the order of those people will be random.

The main service is free but there is a paid for service which will update each day as your friends and followers change. All you need to do to get started is log-in on the right using the Twitter authentication.

We haven’t used it on our background as we have just had ours personalised but we can see why people would use this service.

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iPhone Twitter app for tweeting on your favourite shows

The makers behind TV Show Big Brother have launched a new Twitter app called Twemote for the iPhone which allows you to tag your tweets for your favourite TV shows. It also filters your tweets for TV programmes. It’s available on the iPhone to download for free now.

Both the website and the  iPhone Twitter app give you access to the latest TV programmes and you can join in the the conversation on a certain show. It’s pretty simple, when you find a programme you want to tweet about, you just select it and start tweeting. The Twitter app will automatically tag your tweets with the relevant hashtag to share them with other users. I think this could be a great way to find new friends with similar interests. I could see it working really well for people into niche shows.

I have to admit I did see an awful lot of people tweeting about the X-factor final last week, so I reckon this is a clever little idea and quite a useful Twitter app – so it gets the thumbs up from me and the Tweasier team.

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2009 Twitter trending topics matrix

This week the Twitter blog revealed the most popular trending topics of 2009 and I thought it was worth sharing in a nice matrix. Some of the interesting things for me include no Manchester United but Chelsea and Liverpool FC, our friends at Tweetdeck seemed popular in 2009 and American Idol is still the number one TV show on Twitter. I am a little surprised the UK version (X-Factor) didn’t make it on here but maybe it will do it next year.

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Manage Twitter Followers: Have A Spring Clean

Some easily get carried away with Twitter, following everyone under the sun thinking it will boost their profile in the popularity stakes. Actually, you’re not going to get anywhere doing that. If you have already been labelled a ‘mass Twitter follower’ isn’t it time you had a spring clean so you can properly manage Twitter followers? It will be worth it in the long run.

The thing is, if you don’t manage your Twitter followers properly on a regular basis, you could end up with a long list of people that you are following that has little or no relevance to what you’re all about.

Managing your Twitter followers can work in two ways – you can spring clean the people you’re following on Twitter, and you can also spring clean those who follow you if you wish.

Manage Twitter Followers That Follow You

If multiple people that you don’t like are following you on Twitter, you don’t have to have it that way. You can select ‘block’ from the Twitter settings next to that follower. It’s quite simple. If you have been pestered by someone you know and don’t like, or don’t really fancy someone who’s into rabbit shooting following your ‘I love rabbits’ profile, then you have the control to do what you want with your Twitter profile, so you can manage Twitter followers properly.

…And The Ones You Follow

On the other hand, it might be that you have had a crazy mass following session and ended up following 500 people. It can be difficult to follow this many people unless you use a Twitter client to group your followers. It just makes for more catching up on other people’s updates and not only that but you could look like a bit of a spammer if you don’t engage with them properly. This is especially true if you’re a brand trying to break into the social media market. Using Twitter can benefit you, but only if you do it right. Too many businesses have the preconception that if they follow hundreds of people then each one will follow them back. If only it was so easy. You have to work for your Twitter juice, it’s always quality over quantity, and it really does pay to have a spring clean every now and then so you can manage Twitter followers. If you think you’ve been a little bit too hasty with the number of people you’re following, its time to get the virtual duster out.

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Two types of Twitter users finally identified – which one are you?

A new study on Twitter users has been revealed this week. The study was done by two professors Moro Naaman and Jeffrey Boase and it has identified that there is two types of Twitter users.

You can read the full article from The Miami Herald here. It states:

The majority, or 80 percent, were what they called `meformers” — Twitter users who sent out messages that revolved around themselves, updating others about their activities or sharing thoughts and feelings.

The other 20 percent are “informers” — people who were actually sharing information. Not surprisingly, the informers tended to have larger social networks and be more interactive.

The article also refers to the recent change to Twitter’s main question ‘What are you doing?’, if you didn’t know it has changed to “What’s happening?”

It adds:

“Although the meformers’ self focus might be characterized by some as self-indulgent, these messages may play an important role in helping others maintain relationships,” they wrote in their study.

I think this is quite interesting and very true, there are two distinct groups on Twitter but I am sure you could segment these users even further if you looked more closely.

The only downside to this study is that it was only looking at 3,000 tweets sent by 350 Twitter users. We tweeted yesterday about Twitter going through the 6 Billion tweet mark and according to the latest statistics there are more than 44 million Twitter users, so although it has prompted some interesting debate, I am sure there will be lots of other people with their own opinions on this.

Personally, I think I fall into the informers category as I try to shy away from being too focussed on myself. However, I read lots of streams from a variety of different types of users. I think some “informers” can actually share too much information but that is the topic for another post.

What do you think, do you fall into the "meformer” or “informer” category?

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Measuring your Twitter influence – Tweet Level

A cracking little free tool has been launched by my friends at Edelman, which is a public relations consultancy that I admire hugely. It has some of the best people in social media working there and they have teamed up to create a new Twitter tool that analyses how influential you are on Twitter.

So first question, how does it do this? Well basically it takes several metrics into consideration and gives you your overall “Tweet Level”. I suppose this kind of product is to help show you whether someone is really as popular on Twitter as they think.

Reuters reports:

The tool uses an algorithm developed by the agency which takes into account the quality and quantity of "tweets" or micro-blogs of up to 140 characters, and allows users to compare their own importance to that of anyone they choose to follow.

I ran a search on the Tweasier Twitter account and although it did take a while to run here are our latest statistics.

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“Follow Me On Twitter” And Other Powerful Social Media Requests

These days, there is a completely different language being spoken by people. Text speak is so 90s and now its all about social media jargon-busting to work out what people are actually on about. With so many social media platforms littering the World Wide Web, you have to wonder where it will all lead to. Right now, we’ve got millions of people saying “follow me on Twitter” and “find me on Facebook”, so what’s with all this searching people have to do? What happened to simply giving someone your email address? Now you have to find people on Facebook and oblige when someone says follow me on Twitter. Some might say this is social networking gone mad.

However, for those that use Twitter and Facebook, these phrases are perfectly normal. It almost seems natural to say “follow me on Twitter” and considering the short time Twitter has been around, Twitter-related comments have become the norm and people are used to saying them. In most cases it takes a good few years for things to catch on, but when you move to online, everything seems to be speeded up a gear. Brands work tirelessly for their taglines to catch on and become synonymous with the brand and product, but social media platforms seem to have it so easy. The phrase “follow me on Twitter” is so popular these days, it even returns a good few thousand searches a month in the search engines. And let’s remember, Twitter may be a social networking site, but it is also a brand, and in terms of power and brand identity, Twitter is up there with the best like  Coca-Cola and McDonalds.

Who knows, it might not be long before we see celebrities endorsing the Twitter brand, just like with other big brands of the modern 21^st century.

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How Do You Define Twitter Users?

The average Twitter user doesn’t just use the application as an ‘occasional’ activity – more often than not, they live and breathe it. Twitter users are dynamic, friendly and overall, rather interesting.

Of course, this isn’t the case with everyone. There are some Twitter users who have very little to say, yet they have gained followers for being, well, famous. This is heavily evident with some business brands. They see that social media is the way forward and venture out into the big wide world of Twitter. After signing up and creating a profile, they assume their work is done. They think they can sit back and watch people flock to follow them. Realistically, without posting any Tweets they are unlikely to get a mass following, but they could certainly pick up a few early followers by simply having their brand name on Twitter. Brands sell, and in the world of social media, you are immediately at an advantage if you market your brand on a site like Twitter. Twitter users will find you and if you keep up to ‘tweeting’ then they will choose to follow you. If you don’t keep it up you’ll soon be relegated to the Twitter scrapheap.

Twitter users aren’t all about brands and famous names though. There are some ‘normal’ people on Twitter who simply want to make new friends and experience the craze. These people can often do very well on Twitter, but it takes time and effort to build the relationships. Whereas being a brand or celebrity might give you an initial boost, the plebeians have to work just that little bit harder. But it is so much more enjoyable when you have built up your Twitter following from scratch by sharing good content and being engaging.

So, the moral to this story is that you can’t define the average Twitter user – they are all different and all use Twitter for different purposes.

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