Category Archives: Services
A Whois for Twitter Users
One of Twitter’s shortcoming is how little information it provides about users, other than a short bio and a URL. So how do you quickly get more insight about particular users? The answer could be Twho is This, which offers up an extensive list of a person’s social/digital presence, along with their Twitter bio and [...]
Tired of Foursquare Checkins on Twitter?
Product: Proxlet, a Chrome extension Job: Eliminates the “noise” from your Twitter stream such as people who broadcast their Foursquare check-ins. Description: “Using Proxlet, you can block noisy apps, filter annoying hashtags, or temporarily mute annoying users. You can even cut out the chatter altogether & turn Twitter into the ultimate RSS reader by showing [...]
App of the Day: tweetLevel
Links: http://tweetlevel.edelman.com/ Description: A new measurement service from Edelman that calculates someone’s influence by be slicing, dicing and crunching their Twitter data. It lets people discover their TweetLevel “score”, and displays the number of followers, tag cloud, who influences them, who they influence, and who retweets them. TweetLevel also lets people search by topic based [...]
App of the Day: Shuu.sh
Link: http://shuu.sh/ Description: A web-based Twitter reader that displays the updates of the people you follow in relation to the frequency of their tweets. It aims to amplify the people that don’t usually get heard, and scale back those with frequent updates. Our take: Interesting way to put the spotlight on your “quiet” followers who [...]
Twitter Sentiment: Get a Lay of the Land
If you’re looking for a quick way to gauge the mood within the TwitterSphere, Twitter Sentiment offers a simple service to see positive or negative sentiment based on keywords. For example, here’s the sentiment for IMF head Dominique Strauss-Khan, who was arrested yesterday for allegedly sexually assaulting a chamber made a NYC hotel. Bottom line: [...]
Frrole: What’s Happening on Twitter in Your City?