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Another Tool to Find Mo’ Followers

By Mark Evans | Published: August 16, 2010
Twitter captured a lot of attention recently for rolling out a new feature that suggests followers based on your interests and people that you already follow. The surprising thing is how long it took Twitter to get into the space given it’s chock-a-block with competitors such as Mr. Tweet. Another interesting player in the suggested follower [...]
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A Look at Twitter’s “Suggestions for You”

By Mark Evans | Published: August 6, 2010
After reading about Twitter’s new “Suggestions for You” tool, I finally got a chance to see it in action – for those of you who haven’t heard of it, “Suggestions for You” provides a list of people who you might want to follow using an algorithm that explores your existing friends. In typical Twitter fashion, it’s [...]
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Blast Off to Follow Lots of New People

By Mark Evans | Published: August 3, 2010
One of the challenges in using Twitter is finding interesting and/or relevant people to follow. It can be a time-consuming process, depending on how many people you’re looking to follow. An interesting tool to follow lots of people quickly is BlastFollow, which bills itself as a service to follow Twitter users who share your interests en masse”. BlastFollow is [...]
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Twitter Rolls Out New Follower Tool

By Mark Evans | Published: July 31, 2010
I’m not a big user of Twitter.com but a new feature now being rolled out could make it a lot more useful and interesting. Yesterday, Twitter said it will be introducing “Suggestions for You”, which will displays other Twitter users that you may want to follow. Twitter said the feature is built on an algorithm [...]
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Export Twitter Friends/Followers Into Excel

By Mark Evans | Published: July 24, 2010
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 “Export [...]
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What Makes Someone Follow You?

By Mark Evans | Published: June 25, 2010
When someone new follows me, I get an e-mail from Topify that includes the person’s bio, the number of people they follow/number of followers, their location and their last five tweets. Although I don’t follow a lot of people back, this information is always interesting, mostly because it is intriguing about why these people are [...]
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