MyTweeple.com - Twitter Tool of the Day.

Aug 26, 2008 in Twitter

mytweeple.com - Manage Your Twitter Following and Followers

My Tweeple.com is a pretty nifty service, it basically pulls all your friends from twitter and lets you view those who follow you, those you follow, and mutual followers, and you can follow or unfollow right from the interface.

This is extremely useful, especially since Twitter has instigated the new follower limits.

I will say that I initially followed many people as robert scoble had suggested as a means to build my network, and it did work out hugely in my favor - for every 4 people I followed, 1 person would follow me.

So with 19000 people that I was following, I’ve gotten 5500 followers of my own, not too shabby in the least bit.

But alas the face of twitter and social networks in general are a changing. Of course I got upset at Twitter for making the changes, and I’ve been using twitter a lot less and experimenting with other sites such as Identi.ca, Rejaw, Tumblr, Plurk, etc…

However, with tools like monitter I don’t really need to follow everyone to get new followers and to build my personal brand or community, now I can focus on keeping my current network strong and building up my blog.

I’ve been using MyTweeple to unfollow those who aren’t following me. The most important people to me right now are the ones that listen to what I have to say, in essence they’re the ones paying the bills. My thoughts are why follow anyone who isn’t willing to reciprocate, and I already have enough followers that I can just unsubscribe to all the rest and focus on my little group, and build on that.

One thing I’d like to see on Mytweeple would be an option to just automatically unfollow anyone who isn’t following me, I’ve been clicking unfollow on link after link after link, or perhaps a checkbox next to each item on a page, and a select all link, and another button that says unfollow all, or something easier like that.

But overall I’m quite impressed, and think the service will do pretty well. I definitely recommend trying it out in order to organize your followers, and friends on twitter.

Twitter Tool of the Day: Monitter

Aug 19, 2008 in Twitter

Monitter: The Real time - Live Twitter” rel=”wikipedia” onclick=”javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview (’/outbound/en.wikipedia.org’);”>Twitter Monitor.

Monitter is great. It’s pretty simple how it works. First you you provide 3 keywords, for instance social media, facebook, and twitter, then hit enter. Now every time a new tweet on social media, facebook or twitter hits twitter you are notified immediately. Monitter is definitely one of those tools that I keep wondering how did I live without this?(Yes, I am a geek)

Monitter uses ajax so it can updates continuously, in real time.

I personally love Monitter, as a blogger because I can keep track of topics I’m interested in most, and build relationships with those who share interest in similar niches, and Monitter makes it uber simple to reply, just click on the reply link next to each post, this is a great way to build your online presence and network with like minded people.

The simple fact is the more people you talk to, or talk to you the more people will in the end follow you. Monitter makes this as simple as can be.

If people see someone send an @reply to someone but they didn’t see the original, they might be curious and want to get in on the conversation as well - people tend to be curious creatures, just like cats. So they may not have been following you before, but now they are.

Also remember one more follower may translate into one more hit on your website, and they might be the person who ends up clicking on your $2 adsense ad, who knows? Or even better they might buy from one of your affiliate program, never overlook the power of just one relationship.

Another feature of Monitter is that ability to subscribe to an rss feed based on your search term, you can also embed a monitter widget into your blog or website.

Monitter also lets you choose which language to receive tweets in. The current options are: English, Spanish, Deutsch, and French.

As you can see the team at Monitter have worked hard to bring an unique tool to the blogosphere, I highly recommend if you haven’t already tried it to give it quick gander, and let me know what you think.

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