As you may know, I’m a huge fan of Twimailer, which is service that sends you a notification via e-mail when you have a new follower.
Twimailer provides you with information about the new follower such as how many people they follow, how many followers they have, their location, Web site, bio, and their last five updates on Twitter. It’s an effective and quick way to assess whether a new follower is worth following back – and a major upgrade from the e-mail notification provided by Twitter.
Given how Twitter has shown little inclination to upgrade its notification service, it is not surprising that a growing number of companies such as Twimailer see it as an opportunity.
A newcomer on the scene is friendFilter, which offers things such as the number of people that you and the new follower both follow, messages they send to people you know, the average number of hours between posts, their follower-to-friend ratio and Twitter ranking.
As well, it provides photos of people you both follow. If you click on one of the photos, you can see that person’s last 20 updates.
friendFilter’s interface is not has friendly as Twimailer’s but its value lies in the different kind of information that it provides. While there is some overlap between Twimailer and friendFilter, it’s easy to see how both of them could be used to really get a handle on a new follower.
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friendFilter Enters the Follower Fray
As you may know, I’m a huge fan of Twimailer, which is service that sends you a notification via e-mail when you have a new follower.
Twimailer provides you with information about the new follower such as how many people they follow, how many followers they have, their location, Web site, bio, and their last five updates on Twitter. It’s an effective and quick way to assess whether a new follower is worth following back – and a major upgrade from the e-mail notification provided by Twitter.
Given how Twitter has shown little inclination to upgrade its notification service, it is not surprising that a growing number of companies such as Twimailer see it as an opportunity.
A newcomer on the scene is friendFilter, which offers things such as the number of people that you and the new follower both follow, messages they send to people you know, the average number of hours between posts, their follower-to-friend ratio and Twitter ranking.
As well, it provides photos of people you both follow. If you click on one of the photos, you can see that person’s last 20 updates.
friendFilter’s interface is not has friendly as Twimailer’s but its value lies in the different kind of information that it provides. While there is some overlap between Twimailer and friendFilter, it’s easy to see how both of them could be used to really get a handle on a new follower.
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