I’ve been thinking about posting this for a few days, and after talking to a friend earlier today, I decided it was as good of a time as any. No worries– I’ll still resume posting art in the near future.
That being said, here are 3 very useful tools that I’ve found for posting to Twitter…
1) Qwitter. There’s no registration, no password. You just give them a Twitter username to monitor, an email address to send results to, and it will email you anytime someone quits following that username. Included are who quit following, as well as the last tweet the username posted before said follower quit.
Not only is it a decent way to feel out what might drive certain people off, but it’s also a very good way to figure out what followers are automated services. Those usually leave within a day of following if you haven’t followed them back, and have a tendency to leave in batches if they’re with the same automated service.
On the less personal side, I suppose you could apply Qwitter to any Twitter account and have it mail you notifications, as opposed to your own.
2) Mr. Tweet. This is useful on a number of levels. It recommends people who follow you, but that you haven’t followed back, often noting which ones are influential. It recommends people who your friends follow, that it thinks you might be interested in, based on a mix of the amount of mutual followers as well as how often your friends have retweeted or conversed with them.
It also has a groups function. While I’ve not messed with it much yet, I’ve joined an artist group, and have received an invite from someone for another group (while a couple friends who got the same invite thought it may have been spam, the site itself hasn’t sent spam out). I would assume that, in part, this function probably operates as another derivative of Twitter ‘Lists’ function, but on a larger scale for each list. If someone knows, please feel free to let me know.
Finally, it tends to show a lot of statistics, both for yourself, as well as your followers, and those that it suggests.
While you do have to sign up for it, and give it access, it’s a useful app, and doesn’t post anything without you telling it to.
3) Intersect. This is, by far, my favorite. It’s an extension for the Chrome browser, and may be available for other browsers as well (I haven’t checked). The way it works is very simple– when you’re logged into Twitter via Chrome, anytime you go to someone else’s Twitter page, it tells you:
-Who among your friends are following them.
-Who both of you are mutually friended to.
-Who is mutually following both of you.
The is a really, really simple and yet powerful Twitter tool. You don’t have to give it any information, you just have to be logged into an account via Chrome (or any other browser it may be available for) in order for it to do what it does.
If this is useful, feel free to spread the word, and link this post. I get very little traffic here as of yet, despite the art posted, so I can always use more readers. ;)
In other news, the computer has been overhauled, and the majority of my time for the next week or so will be spent working on 25pc batch of art that I’m doing for Shanghai Vampocalypse. Maybe I’ll post some really old pen & ink work for you to browse in the next day or so.
-Sean
