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Make Your Tweets Delicious

By Mark Evans | Published: March 8, 2010
When it comes to Twitter, I’m a link monster. Most of my tweets include links to blog posts, news articles and online services; and most of the people I follow fall into the same camp. One of the challenges, however, is keeping track of all these links, which have varying degrees of value. You could “favorite” [...]
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What’s the Mood on Twitter?

By Mark Evans | Published: February 23, 2010
It’s easy to search for what’s happening on Twitter but what’s the mood out there? How is the Twitterrati feeling about the news, celebrities, issues and trends? A simple tool to get a lay of the land is Twitter Sentiment, which lets users enter a keyword to see if the sentiment is negative or positive. [...]
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Looking Back at All Those Tweets

By Mark Evans | Published: February 22, 2010
There’s probably a wealth of information within all the tweets you’ve done but it’s not exactly easy to review them. Twitter collects everything but seems far more intent on using data to create an analytics service that give users a user-friendly way to reviews, filter, search and tag their tweets. But if you’re looking for [...]
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TwitterGrader Provides Good Insight

By Mark Evans | Published: February 10, 2010
If you’re interested in learning more about your presence on Twitter, your friends and followers, TwitterGrade is a user-friendly tool that provides a wealth of information. To get the process started, you provide your Twitter username. This generates a report that show your bio, location, Web site, the number of followers/friends, when you joined Twitter, and [...]
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A Beautiful and Visual Way to Search Twitter

By Mark Evans | Published: January 29, 2010
There are lots of Twitter search engines (Twazzup, Scoopler, Topsy, et al) but for something different and beautiful, check out True Colors of Twitter. It’s a visual search engine that shows tweets as different colored-bubbles that move across the screen. To see the contents of a “bubble”, you click on it. True Colors of Twitter [...]
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Tickery: Who’s Following Who in Common

By Mark Evans | Published: January 25, 2010
Tickery is another interesting tool to discover new people to follow. It works by having you submit two Twitter users, and then displays the people in common who they follow. By rolling over each avatar/photograph that’s display, you can see information about each person being followed, including their Twitter ID #, which I suspect shows when [...]
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