Twitter Tool Tuesday – Backtweets

08/05/2012 By

Backtweets allows organizations or individuals to search for tweets that link back to their website or blog, including those with shortened URLs.

To use it you simply enter a URL into the search box, click the search button and the tool will present you with a list of tweets that include the URL you’ve just entered. To make things really easy, tweets are presented in chronological order according to when they were sent. There are also some advanced options that let you filter results by date and user.

Once of my favourite things about Backtweets is the Alerts Service, which lets you opt-in to receive email updates whenever someone tweets a URL you’ve entered. The frequency of these alerts can be set to daily or weekly.

All-in-all Backtweets is a great way for organisations or individuals alike to keep abreast of what people on Twitter are saying about them.

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Twitter Tool Tuesday – ChumpDump

08/05/2012 By

ChumpDump is an iPhone/Android app/game for Twitter based around the idea that you probably have a lot of “chumps” clogging up your feed.

Each day, at random, ChumpDump will present you with a screen of stats for someone you follow on Twitter including their number of DMs/replies to you, the number of times they’ve retweeted you, the number of links in their tweets and their overall influence. You then have to choose whether to “save” or “dump” them. The game works in such a way that that you cannot continue until you’ve made a choice. Saving someone keeps them on your friends list, dumping someone removes them altogether. Once you’ve made a choice you need to give a reason. “Reasons” are key to how the game works as they motivate others to play and let everyone know what constitutes a good tweeter.

Another key aspect of the game mechanic involves “karma”, which can be amassed by adopting people who have been dumped by other users of the app. Amass enough karma and you unlock a feature that lets you dump more than one chump a day. You can also earn badges.

ChumpDump is intended to be a bit of fun, however for those who genuinely feel their Twitter feed is getting a little clogged up, it could be a useful tool.

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Twitter Tool Tuesday – Pockets

01/05/2012 By

What is it?
Pockets is visual voicemail for Twitter. It allows you to leave a private voicemail for anyone on Twitter and they’ll be notified by @reply.

How does it work?
You must first sign in and allow the tool access to your Twitter account. It will then ask for a phone number and Twitter username to send voicemail to. Once these bits are out the way, you’re ready to start using the tool. Simply enter the recipients Twitter handle, click the “Send Voicemail” button and Pockets will call you to record a message. When you’ve finished recording, hang up, and Pockets will posts an @reply to the recipient asking them to likewise allow the tool access to their account so they can retrieve the message.

Closing comments
Pockets is a novel idea and a fun way to message friends on Twitter who you know, but don’t have a number for. On the downside its very nature gives it potential for spammy miss-use, although there are ways for message recipients to block the tool in such circumstances.

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Twitter Tool Tuesday – Tweet Old Posts

01/05/2012 By

Tweet Old Posts is a WordPress plugin that connects with your Twitter account and lets you automatically tweet links to old posts. The tool selects posts at random based on a user defined interval.

Once you’ve installed the plugin and connected your Twitter account there’s a host of options that allow you to customise which posts should be selected for tweeting as well as tweet content and tweet intervals.

Although it’s usually best practice to manually manage your Twitter account, not everyone has time to do so. For such individuals or organizations Tweet Old Posts is an ideal solution. It can also help generate more traffic.

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Twitter Tool Tuesday – When did you join Twitter?

24/04/2012 By

As its name suggest, the ‘When did you join Twitter’ app lets users know the date they or a fellow tweep created their Twitter account.

To use the tool you simply enter the Twitter handle you’d like to investigate, click the “Find out!” button and within seconds it will display name, profile pic and join date of the account holder. The tool also generates 2 links, one that says how many days ago the account holder joined Twitter and another that says the date they joined. Clicking on either of these links will redirect you to Twitter itself, where you can Tweet the info if you so wish.

If you’re curious to find out when certain people first joined the Twitter universe then this is the tool for you.

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Twitter Tool Tuesday – Conversationlist

17/04/2012 By

Conversationlist automatically creates a list in your Twitter account based on the people you talk to. This list gets updated daily so it’s always a reflection of who you’re currently paying attention to. If you reply to or mention someone that person is added to your list. If you stop talking to someone then they drop off your list.

List can be customised so that they’re anywhere between 1 and 500 tweeps and you can select whether or not your list should include people you’ve mentioned. You can also set your list to include only people you’ve talked to X  amount of times. Additionally you can choose to always include or exclude certain people from your list.

All-in-all Conversationlist is a great way to see at a glance who you’re paying most attention to on Twitter.

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Twitter Tool Tuesday – Tweet-a-Beer

10/04/2012 By

Tweet-a-Beer, a brand new app officially rolled out at South by Southwest, does exactly as its name suggests by letting you buy someone a beer via Twitter.

It works using Chirpify – an ecommerce platform for Twitter – to sync your Twitter account with your PayPal account. You can then transfer beer money in $5 allotments to another Twitter user, and eventually their PayPal account.

To get the Tweet-a-Beer app up and running you must first authenticate your Twitter account with Chripify and then pre-approve Chirpify to make money transfers on your behalf. Once you’ve done this you can use the app to select an @recipient on Twitter, send them a beer ($5) and add a reason, meeting place or requests for the Jukebox. When you’ve tweeted your beer the recipient will receive a tweet mention from you with a link to details on how they can claim it.

All-in-all Tweet-a-Beer is fun, novel concept. It’s a great way to treat your friends (who are on Twitter/PayPal) to a cold one and also serves as a flashy way to by someone a drink ahead of a business meeting or something similar.

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Twitter Tool Tuesday – TweetScan

03/04/2012 By

TweetScan is a real-time search engine for Twitter that lets user search the Twittersphere for any Twitter handle, hashtag or term they can think of. The is available both on the web and as a plug-in for the Firefox search bar. It refreshes results every 90 seconds or so and if you register you can set up RSS feeds for certain searches. You can also receive daily or weekly email alerts on your searches.

If you feel inclined to find out what particular Twitter users have been up to, if you like sifting through multi-user replies or if you like searching Twitter for certain patterns and themes, then this is the tool for you.

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Twitter Tool Tuesday – Twylah

27/03/2012 By

Twylah specialise in turning your everyday tweets into a stunning visual experience, perfect for showcasing you or your brand. Twylah takes the tweets and the media – be it photos or videos – you post to twitter and groups them into subjects. These subjects form the different articles on your Twylah website and tell users the story of you or your brand.

For example… if your brand was launching a new product, Twylah would group together all the tweets you sent with the name of that product and turn it into an article on your Twylah site. Any videos or images of the product would also be included. While you don’t edit the content on Twylah yourself, you do power it – Twylah updates itself every day, and the most recent image / video you tweet on a topic will be used, so if you aren’t happy simply upload a new image and it will take the place of the old one.

To get your own Twylah you simply need to request an invite. Anyone can get one, as long as your tweets are English, you have tweeted at least 75 times and your tweets aren’t protected.

Here are some great examples of Twylah at work:

Request your invite now: twylah.com

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