Great Way of Updating Contacts
November 27, 2008 at 9:30 am
With the best of intentions to update my Twitter following list, I never do. I often think it would be so beneficial to visit the websites of all the people following me, and find new folks to talk to, engage with, learn from. But I never do because I like to knock off work after the mandatory 10-12 hours!
Now that’s been made easy with the beautiful Mr Tweet. It’s a nifty little app that recommends people who are following you that you should follow. And recommends people you should follow that you’re currently not. This bit is based on who you follow, and who they follow also.
I like it. It’s neat, informative, works really well, and absolves me of guilt for not updating my following list. It gives you information about the person, the number of times they tweet on average per day, and their following response action – ie. follow everyone, follow some, etc. I don’t care about that last bit. I’m not in the business of following to be followed.
The one thing it doesn’t do is filter for annoying people! There are quite a few recommendations that I have simply ignored because I used to follow them and their constant moaning or bitching just got me down. For what it’s worth, I like to use Twitter to listen to people who:
- Have something interesting to say
- Are generous with their links, ie find something great and pass it on
- Are funny, witty, amusing. Positive, light, fun.
- Are not self obsessed and only tweeting about themselves and their lives
If this is you, and I haven’t found you yet, do please follow me on Twitter. When I see your follow, I’ll always have a look and if you seem sound, I’ll follow you too.
Comments (2 responses)
That looks great.
Another useful one is Twubble (http://www.crazybob.org/twubble/) – it looks at who your twitter friends are following, but you’re not. It’s a good way of finding people in a network that have common interests.
Looks great. I wonder why you have to mouse over the image to preview its features though on their site.
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