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How do I search within my Twitter followers?

Date: 17th May 2010
Comments: 3 Related Categories: Twitter Apps, Twitter News

This is a question I get asked a lot, so I was thrilled to receive a notification by email this weekend that Tweetreports now offers this functionality.

Now, with just a few clicks you can search and follow updates posted by your followers, people you’re following, or both. So watch the video to see how our In-Network (search within) feature works.

Their video (reproduced below) shows you how, and you can visit their website at www.tweetreports.com to find out more about their full product, which offers a whole host of useful features.

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16 reasons why the Twitter @message change isn’t a big deal…

Date: 13th May 2009
Comments: 11 Related Categories: Twitter Musings

So, Twitter have changed the way you can view @messages and people are in uproar.

Basically, the change means that if someone you follow replies to someone you DON’T follow, then you won’t see that message in your Twitter stream.

Well I say “Yay!”

But people are complaining, arms are raised, and uproar is being tweeted, retweeted and re-retweeted. Hashtags galore are being deployed, and people are complaining that ‘Twitter are taking away our choice’.

Well, I just don’t get the fuss.

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The power of the Retweet – how Stephen Fry helped me illustrate a point

Date: 18th March 2009
Comments: 26 Related Categories: Guest Blogs, Innovative Twitterings, Interesting Tweets, Twitter Fun, Twitter Musings, Twitter for Business

[365-289] Mr Fry
Creative Commons License photo credit: adotjdotsmith

One of the things I cover in the TweetMentor course, and one of the most overlooked things on Twitter (in my opinion) is the power of the Retweet.

The Retweet is an all round good thing in so many ways – I’m not going to go into them all here, but just point you to Retweetist before giving you an example.

Last night I published a short blog about the fact that Twitter had banned @TweepMe and why I agreed. It was one of many such blogs out there. Don’t tell anyone, but it wasn’t even the best….

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How to avoid committing Twittercide in three easy steps

Date: 6th February 2009
Comments: 5 Related Categories: Guest Blogs, Uncategorized

This is a guest blog from Wayne Smallman of Blah Blah tech

Just one update on Twitter can either make or break you, and do so very publicly, too. A word to the wise: be wise with your words on Twitter!

More and more people, personalities and business entities are seeing the potential of Twitter as a new communications medium.

Even politicians are getting in on the act now. Over in the US, Twitter is now entering the political vocabulary, along with “credit crunch”. While over here in Britain, Tweetminster is a website that lists the growing number of members of parliament using Twitter to communicate with their constituents.

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Want to make sure you don’t lose your followers? Tweetake!

Date: 22nd January 2009
No Comments Related Categories: Twitter Apps, Uncategorized

As one of the partners in Tweetake, we love to see people promoting our service – but I have to say that the cartoon accompanying a post I found today really made me smile:

tweetake

If you use Twitter for business, then it could be important to you to be able to backup your followers if, for whatever reason, they were lost.

I know I wouldn’t like to fall off the edge of the Twitterverse and have the people following me wondering where I had got to.

Play it safe – back up at Tweetake :)

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Breaking news can up your follower count!

Date: 16th January 2009
Comments: 3 Related Categories: Twitter Musings, Twitter News

Interesting to see the increase in followers that @jkrums got yesterday. He was allegedly the first to post pictures of yesterday’s Hudson River plane crash, and a massive 1949 of you decided to follow him – followed by another 132 today at the time of writing.

Stats from the fantastic TwitterCounter.

Update: Rory Cellan-Jones has posted more about this story, and how twitter is changing the way journalists report here.

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Who I follow, and who I don’t (and why) on Twitter

Date: 8th January 2009
Comments: 25 Related Categories: Twitter Musings

“Why don’t you follow as many people as follow you Nikki?”

“I’m following you, why aren’t you following me, Nikki?”

“I stopped following you because you’re not following me Nikki”

Just 3 of the messages I’ve received recently talking about who I do and don’t follow on Twitter.

You may have already read my post ‘How I use Twitter’, and this is in a similar vein, but here are my thoughts on following and followers.

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Hot to use Twitter as a Tool – Guy Kawasaki

Date: 12th December 2008
No Comments Related Categories: Twitter News

If you can’t see the embedded Flash movie, here’s the original link:

http://vizedu.com/2008/12/how-to-use-twitter-as-a-twool/

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Backup your Twitter followers with Tweetake!

Date: 10th August 2008
Comments: 2 Related Categories: Interesting Tweets, Twitter Apps, Twitter Fun, Twitter Musings, Twitter News, Twitter for Business

The brainchild of Alfred Armstrong and Nikki Pilkington, Tweetake is here to allow you to back-up your followers, people you are following and Tweets with just one click.

Why bother to do this? Many reasons:

  • Twitter may lose followers again like it did in June / July
  • You may change your Twitter name and want to re-follow the people you were following, and contact the people who were following you
  • You may want to refer to a Tweet that you sent more than 90 days ago (the longest twitter keeps Tweets for)
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The Twitter Influence Ratio

Date: 21st July 2008
Comments: 3 Related Categories: Interesting Tweets, Twitter News

Great post from Allan Young with his thoughts on ‘The Twitter Influence Ratio’ or how you can decide whether someone is following based on the number of people they follow and the number of people that follow them.

Here’s an excerpt (accordign to this we have a Twitter Influence Ratio of 1.41 – we’re not sure if that makes us worth following or not!:

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