Hot to use Twitter as a Tool - Guy Kawasaki
If you can’t see the embedded Flash movie, here’s the original link:
Business on Twitter
Because Twitter’s not just for twits ;)
Backup your Twitter followers with Tweetake!
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)
The Twitter Influence Ratio
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!:
How influential are you on Twitter?
TwitterPoster is a visual representation of the influential tweeters. By influential, they mean the people with the most followers.
They say:
TwitterPoster is a mashup created from Twitter, the microblogging service owned by Obvious LCC (Blogger Xanga, Odeo). Inspired by ‘The Million Dollar Homepage’ and the populars tagclouds, the service generates a mosaic with the images of users who have a greater number of followers in Twitter. Each poster have 5 photos of 72×72 pixels showing at 5 users with more followers, 10 images of 48×48 pixels for those between the positions 6 and 15 (both inclusive) and XXX images of 24×24 pixels for those who are on the position 16 to 538.
Who’s a Twitterholic?
Have you ever wondered who has the most followers on Twitter? Well, wonder no more.
Twitterholic ranks Twitter users in order of the amount of followers they have.
You can also see the number of Tweets they have posted, and their own URL.
At time of writing, the precious number one spot is owned by Kevin Rose, of Digg fame.
Twitter Counter - how popular are you?
Funky little service that allows you to monitor the growth (or not!) of ‘followers’ of your Tweets.
The more followers you have, the more people will see your messages, and the higher the likelihood of them being ‘re-tweeted’ and passed around.
In addition, if you really want to show off, you can add an icon to your blog or website that shows how many followers you have - probably not advisable if the number is less than ten 
