Archive for July, 2009
Follower Counts Reduced
by Skeeter Hansen and Al Ferretti
Twitter Cleans House of followers, Spammers Purged
Did you notice a drop in your twitter followers and following in recent hours?
“For some time, the follower and following counts we display have been incorrect for some folks. We’re soon to push a change that will address this issue. This means that the count you see in your sidebar should match what you see on your follower and following pages.”
“However, a consequence of this change is that follower counts will drop for some people. In particular, those with large followings may see significant changes as we correct for spam accounts and data inconsistencies. No legitimate followings should be affected—we’re just cleaning up artifacts in the system.”
If you’ve been the target of spam followers, you might notice a reduction with both your follower and following counts on twitter. Please leave us a comment, whether you have or have not lost followers.
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Twitter Followers
-by Skeeter Hansen and Al Ferretti
Do you want more twitter followers?
A recent survey shows that a majority of twitter users (whether its for fun or for business) would like more followers and are asking….
How is it done?
How do these top twitter networkers do it?
Is there some type of magical formula on how to get followers on Twitter?
Some of these so called twitter marketers will tell you YES, there is.
You may have noticed tweets that read something like, “Follow my secret system and get 16,000 Followers in 30-90 Days.”
The truth is the top twitter networkers don’t get followers by a push of a button. They do it by engaging, building relationships and providing value.
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Twitter Tools Part 1
by Al Ferretti and Skeeter Hansen
Twitter Tools (part 1 of 6): “For Fun and More”
Earlier this year, Evan Williams CEO and Co Founder of Twitter reported that there are about 2,000 3rd party tools and apps for twitter. Wow~ Did he say 2,000? That’s a lot of options.
To keep things simple we’re sharing a tidbit with a link to some of the more popular twitter tools in use today. This is part 1 of 6 and we are beginning with twitter tools and apps “For Fun and More”
Crowd Status Crowd Status- View the status of your friends on Twitter in a start-up page style.
Bkkeepr Bkkeepr – With this service, you can track the books you are reading on Twitter.
CommuterFeed CommuterFeed– You can share your traffic report on Commuterfeed using Twitter.
Foamee Foamee – This is a fun site that allows you to track people who owes you beer or coffee using your Twitter account.
FoodFeed FoodFeed – is a micro blogging site that you can use to post about your food habits through Twitter.
InnerTwitter InnerTwitter– Meditate by receiving chimes at regular intervals from InnerTwitter.
Notches Notches – Allows you to write reviews of certain items on Twitter.
Hahlo Hahlo – if you are not satisfied with your Twitter interface, you can check out Hahlo to manage your Twitter account. It gives you a separate profile page and the rest of the Twitter features in a new look.
My Tweeple My Tweeple – Manage your friends and followers in Twitter on a single web page.
Post Like a Pirate Post Like a Pirate – This tool allow you to convert your post into pirate-speak before posting it to Twitter. I, however, don’t need it, because I already speak like a pirate. Yarr!
Quitter Quitter will help you how to use Twitter to quit smoking. Bonus points for cool name.
Roll The Dice Roll the dice – You can use this service to do all the silly things on Twitter like roll a dice, flip a coin, deal cards, or generate a random number.
StrawPoll Straw Poll – Sends out polls on Twitter that you can participate on. As they say, you can never have too many polls.
TrackThis Track This – This is an useful service to get updates of your shipment using Twitter. It supports FedEx, UPS, USPS and DHL tracking codes.
Twee60 Twee60 – You can tweet your Xbox live status with Twee60 automatically.
TwitResponse TwitResponse – Set up your Twitter posts for the future.
TwittEarth TwitEarth – This is a 3D model of the earth displaying the latest updates on Twitter across the globe. You can download the tool as a screensaver.
Twitterfeed – Posts your blog posts automatically to Twitter.
TwitterMeThis TwitterMeThis– When you follow TwitterMeThis, it will send you a question randomly. If you are the first to answer that question, then you get $5.
TwitterSpy TwitterSpy provides you a Google map on its site. when you hover your mouse above certain locations on that map, you get to see the latest public posts from that area. Strangely addicting.
Tweetclouds Tweetclouds – Create a word cloud from a public Twitter stream using this service.
Tweetgift – Remember Facebook where you can poke, throw a sheep, or hug a friend? Tweetgift enables you to do the same on Twitter.
Twaction – Another service that lets you do Facebook-style pokes and slaps at friends.
Twistori – Based on Summize, this service collects Twitter messages with words such as love, hate, think, believe, wish, and feel and displays them on its site with automatic updates.
Twitpoll Twitpoll– You can participate on polls using Twitter through Twitpoll.
Tweetshots Tweetshots– this service allows you to take your Twitter posts to Tumblr, embed in websites, or send over email.
TwitterAnswers TwitterAnswers combines Twitter and Mosio, so that you can send questions over Twitter and have them answered by other people.
Twitter Karma Twitter Karma – This tool fetches your Twitter friends and followers and displays them for you, letting you paginate through them in a nicer way than you would on Twitter.
TwitterNotes TwitterNotes – You can create notes on TwitterNotes using Twitter and tagging your notes.
TwitterPoster TwitterPoster– This site generates a mosaic of user icons of those with a large number of followers on Twitter.
TwitterSnooze TwitterSnooze– If you have friends on Twitter who are updating every 10 seconds and are irritating the hell out of you, you can simply now snooze them away using this tool.
TwitterSpectrum TwitterSpectrum– Based on Summize, this tool show you the associated words of two pair of words or names in a nice spectrum layout.
Xpenser Xpenser– Record your expenses using Twitter. You can also use other mediums like email, SMS, IM, voice, etc.
Who Should I follow Who Should I follow – Find interesting people to follow on Twitter using this tool.
Look for Twitter Tools (part 2 of 6): “WordPress Plugins for your blog”
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TweetDeck
-by Skeeter Hansen and Al Ferretti
Why People Love TweetDeck
Tweet Deck is your personal browser for staying in touch with what’s happening now, connecting you with your contacts across Twitter, Facebook and more.
TweetDeck shows you everything you want to see at once, so you can stay organized and up to date.
This short video will give you a brief overview of the many functions people love about TweetDeck. Discover how to follow, unfollow, reply, send direct messages, report spam, search, block, view profile, translate, email tweet and much more with a click of your mouse.
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Twitter to Stardom
by Skeeter Hansen and Your Pal Al Ferretti
Twitter may be your ticket to Internet Stardom
It’s funny because we know many of you have heard of those so called “once in a lifetime
opportunities”. Unless you have been living under a rock, you see those opportunities everywhere.
Truthfully, and if we were betting men (and sometimes we are), we would say that Twitter is a once in a lifetime opportunity for virtually anybody.
Here’s 7 reasons to ignite your light to internet stardom
1. Twitter is growing at an amazing rate and its been said that twitter users, are on twitter for longer periods of time, compared to users on other social media networks.
2. Twitter easily integrates with blogs and/or websites.
3. The amount of available twitter clients, tools and apps (more and more are being released every single day) allow for almost unheard of customization and flexibility.
4. You can spread the news about your brand, product or service at the speed of lightning.
(even faster than traditional media like CNN, ESPN, etc) That’s why they use Twitter.
5. There’s no limit on how to use Twitter (be it personally and/or professionally) with even
more ways being created all the time. Some top brand companies use twitter for special offers, customer service and more.
6. Twitter’s climate is the perfect breeding ground from the high profile celebrity to joe the plumber and every business marketing owner in between.
7. Twitter is now the default for spreading news and information and it is a preferred way by many to connect with people all across planet earth.
Our future with communication has officially changed for the good.
This is your official (no hype) “Once in a Lifetime Opportunity” to Stardom
If you know of a better way, please let us know ASAP, better yet leave us your comments and follow us..
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Special Guest Kakie
Twitter Watchdog Features Kakie Fitzsimmons
UPDATE: Due to Technical difficulties (beyond our control) with the service provider, we have rescheduled the conference call with Kakie Fitzsimmons for another time to be determined. We are sorry for the change of schedule and appreciate your understanding.
Kakie Fitzsimmons has a proven entrepreneurial ability to monetize ideas which demonstrates her capability of wearing many hats. As Marketing VP and Co-Founder of Farmer’s Hat Productions (TM), a children’s product company, she has led strategic planning, implementation and national launch of brands and products at The Mall of America in 2007.
Kakie is also author and co-creator of an award winning series of children’s books, Bur Bur and Friends. The characters in the books are a cast of multicultural characters who educate kids about self esteem, sports and outdoor exploration.
Come follow us; discover how Kakie Fitzsimmons and the TwitterWatchDog team can help you and your business be successful on Twitter.
What: Twitter training call with Kakie Fitzsimmons
Where: Blog Talk Radio
When: TBD
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