Monthly Archives: July 2010

BackTweets: Tracking Twitter Links

A key part of using Twitter is including links to interesting content and Web sites. For people providing or tracking these links, it’s always interesting to see how much attention to they receive. A simple tool to see how many tweets include a specific links is BackTweets. Just provide the URL, click on “search”, and [...]
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500 Twitterrati Posts and Counting

When I launched Twitterrati in October 2008, it was based on two thoughts: 1. At the time, there didn’t seem to be many blogs devoted to Twitter. This meant there was a window of opportunity to start a new blog in which there was, hopefully, built-in demand. This is always a good thing, otherwise your efforts [...]
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Export Twitter Friends/Followers Into Excel

There are lots of interesting Twitter services but here’s one that caught my attention because it’s different and offers some intriguing possibilities. TwitterExport is a free service that makes it easy to export any Twitter user’s friends and followers into Microsoft Excel or CSV. All you do is enter a Twitter username and click on [...]
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TweetBeat is Sweet

I take a look at dozens of Twitter services every week but, to be honest, there aren’t many that resonate enough to compel me to use them on a regular basis. So, it was a pleasant surprise to come across TweetBeat firsthand, a plug-in for Firefox and Chrome that shows the tweets of people or [...]
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SnapBird Snaps at Twitter Search

There are lots of alternative to Twitter’s search engine, but one worth checking out is SnapBird. Aside from being easy to use, SnapBird offers a variety of useful search features. These includes being able to search for another Twitter user’s tweets and their favorites, and searching for public tweets that are older than 10 days [...]
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Twitter Should Create Username Domain System

Twitter has more than its fair share of challenges and opportunities to address but one area it really needs to address is liberating usernames that have been collecting dust for a long time. There are too many useful and interesting usernames that have been sitting idle for months, if not years. Twitter needs a system [...]
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