It took awhile but my invitation for Mr. Tweet finally arrived a few days after I requested to join – reflecting the enormous interest in the newest tool that aims to help you find new people to follow on Twitter.
The excitement over Mr. Tweet is understandable. As much as Twitter is a wonderful communications tool, it has its shortcomings. Perhaps the biggest is how difficult it can be to build a base of people to follow. For many people, it can be a time-consuming process that involves a lot of experimenting, hunches and leaps of faith.
While Twitter has done nothing to solve this problem, there are a few players trying to tackle it, most notably Twellow, Just Tweet It and Twubble. While they are useful, none of them cracks the “follower” nut.
On the other hand, Mr. Tweet looks as though it’s on to something. The service works by looking through your Twitter network to determine people following you who you should follow, and the influential people within your Twitter network that you should follow.
Here are two screen shots of Mr. Tweet in action:
How Mr. Tweet determines who should follow is part of its secret sauce but what makes it appealing is the simple, clean interface. What I particularly like is the information displayed about each person it suggests. You can see how many people they follow, how many people follow them, how often they Tweet, what they do, where they are located and their Web site. More: You can also see some of their recent Tweets, which is cool.
It’s a great way to quickly determine whether the recommendation makes sense. If you want to follow, all you do is click on “Follow”, log in to Twitter, and you’re good to go.
All in all, Mr. Tweet is doing a lot of things really well, and there’s no reason why it shouldn’t become one of the de facto way to find followers on Twitter. Do not be surprised if it’s a service that Twitter eventually snaps up, much like it beefed up its search features by acquiring Summize.
Mr. Tweet does not appear to have a business model, although it talks about introducing premium features so clearly it’s working on the premise of building a large audience, and then rolling out tools to monetize it.
Mr. Tweet was created by Discovery.io, which describes itself as a “group of people who are highly passionate about engineering discovery systems and connecting people. We have deep technical and business expertise with regards to the problem we are solving”. The principles are Yu-Shan and Ming Yeow.
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Review: Mr. Tweet is Sweet
It took awhile but my invitation for Mr. Tweet finally arrived a few days after I requested to join – reflecting the enormous interest in the newest tool that aims to help you find new people to follow on Twitter.
The excitement over Mr. Tweet is understandable. As much as Twitter is a wonderful communications tool, it has its shortcomings. Perhaps the biggest is how difficult it can be to build a base of people to follow. For many people, it can be a time-consuming process that involves a lot of experimenting, hunches and leaps of faith.
While Twitter has done nothing to solve this problem, there are a few players trying to tackle it, most notably Twellow, Just Tweet It and Twubble. While they are useful, none of them cracks the “follower” nut.
On the other hand, Mr. Tweet looks as though it’s on to something. The service works by looking through your Twitter network to determine people following you who you should follow, and the influential people within your Twitter network that you should follow.
Here are two screen shots of Mr. Tweet in action:
How Mr. Tweet determines who should follow is part of its secret sauce but what makes it appealing is the simple, clean interface. What I particularly like is the information displayed about each person it suggests. You can see how many people they follow, how many people follow them, how often they Tweet, what they do, where they are located and their Web site. More: You can also see some of their recent Tweets, which is cool.
It’s a great way to quickly determine whether the recommendation makes sense. If you want to follow, all you do is click on “Follow”, log in to Twitter, and you’re good to go.
All in all, Mr. Tweet is doing a lot of things really well, and there’s no reason why it shouldn’t become one of the de facto way to find followers on Twitter. Do not be surprised if it’s a service that Twitter eventually snaps up, much like it beefed up its search features by acquiring Summize.
Mr. Tweet does not appear to have a business model, although it talks about introducing premium features so clearly it’s working on the premise of building a large audience, and then rolling out tools to monetize it.
Mr. Tweet was created by Discovery.io, which describes itself as a “group of people who are highly passionate about engineering discovery systems and connecting people. We have deep technical and business expertise with regards to the problem we are solving”. The principles are Yu-Shan and Ming Yeow.
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