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MVF: Find Out Who Your Most Popular Follower on Twitter Is

Hammad — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:01:18 +0000

There are websites that will try to determine your virtual popularity based solely on the number of followers you have. Most Valuable Follower (MVF) is a website that allows users to find out who that follower is.

The website uses a simple technique to do this, which is to check the number of followers you have and then show you the one with the most followers.

Using the website is pretty simple. Just visit MVF, and let the website access your Twitter account. The website will then process your Twitter followers, scan them and then display the most popular follower and how many followers they have.

The website can also show you the top five followers if you tweet the top one on Twitter.

Features

Simple and easy to use.
Find the most popular Twitter follower following you.
Makes it easier for you to keep in touch with the valuable followers as any RT by them would lead to an increase in Twitter followers.

Check out MVF @ http://mvfapp.com (via Mashable)

Frrole: Turn Twitter Into Your Own Local Social News Source

Dave LeClair — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:01:35 +0000

Frrole is an awesome service that currently works in 20 international cities, 13 of which are in the United States. It turns Twitter into your very own social newspaper, filled with the top tweets from your city of choice. It is an awesome way to keep track of what is happening locally, without having to manually scan Twitter.

Each city’s tweets are divided into 6 categories – sports, entertainment, travel, events, deals and jobs. There is also an “Everything” category that shows you the latest from all 6 combined. Dividing it this way allows you to only find the stuff that interests you. So, if you are a sports guy, you can ignore all the other stuff and just read the best tweets about sports.

You can actually retweet any tweet you enjoy from Frrole, making it easy to share anything you think is awesome. Of course, each tweet is linked to the original tweet on Twitter, so you can click that to see it on Twitter at any time.

Features:

Currently supports 20 cites, with more to be added.
Turns Twitter into a social newspaper.
Retweet and share tweets on Facebook right from Frrole.
More interesting tweets than trending topics.
Divided into 6 categories so you can find what interests you.

Find Frrole @ www.frrole.com

TwitDrip: Automatically Post Tweets At Regular Intervals To Your Twitter Timeline

abhijeet — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:01:51 +0000

There’s no dearth of tweet scheduling services but what most of them have is a limitation on the number of tweets that can be scheduled in advance if you are not paying them. TwitDrip is a new Twitter scheduling service that differentiates itself by allowing unlimited tweet scheduling for free. You may choose timezones, the days of the week when you want to publish, the time intervals and easily compose tweets in their nice and simple user interface.

The service does provide a URL shortener to shorten those links, and makes it easy to schedule tweets but does not provide a browser bookmarklet like most of these services do. So that might be a slight hindrance in you choosing it over its competitors, but other than that, it’s a tool worth trying out if you schedule tweets everyday.

Features

Schedule tweets to publish at regular time intervals.
No limit on number of tweets you can schedule.

Check out TwitDrip @ www.twitdrip.com/indexeng.php (By Abhijeet from GT Mobiles)

Twilaters: Find Tweets Saved By Your Friends To Read Later

Hammad — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 02:01:13 +0000

Twilater is an online website that allows users to find out what their friends are reading, and what tweets they have added to their list of favorites to save and read later.

The website is good for people who want to search for some top tweets regarding a certain topic or subject. Twilater allows users to find tweets that have been most favorited and retweeted by their friends.

All a user has to do is log in from their Twitter account and search for a topic, which they want to know about. Once you search, you will be shown tweets related to that topic and how many people have favorited and retweeted it. If you like any tweet you can also retweet it directly from the website. You can check out the tweets you saved from the My Twilaters option.

Features

Simple and easy to use.
Find most favorite and retweeted post made by your friends.
Find most favorited users on Twitter.
Search for different topics on Twitter.

Check out Twilater @ www.twilater.com

Vizify: View Your Twitter Stats As An Infographic

TehseenBaweja — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 01:01:44 +0000

We all have so much Twitter activity that its hard to get a bird’s eye view. Vizify is a web service that aims to deliver just that, a bird’s eye view of your Twitter activity presented as an easy to view infographic. The first part of the infographic displays a graph of your tweets for each month, going back upto 3,200 tweets.

It is followed by a list of your 5 most retweeted posts and a list of your top 5 favorite followers based on the number of times they have mentioned you in their tweets. You can also click on the little arrow at the bottom of each list to view more entries. You cannot save the infographic as an image but you can tweet your results.

Features:

View your twitter activity as a cool infographic.
See tweets per month, most retweeted and most favorite followers.
View favorite theme based on words you frequently tweet.
Similar tool: Twoolr.

Visit Vizify @ www.vizify.com [Via Labnol]

InstaBG: Customize Your Twitter Background With Your Instagram Photographs

Umar — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:01:53 +0000

The background of your Twitter profile plays a major role in the customization of your Twitter account. Normally to personalize your Twitter page, you would upload a personal photograph taken by your phone. Would it not be convenient if you could somehow link your phone’s photographs to your Twitter’s background for easy profile customization? That is precisely what an app called InstaBG offers.

InstaBG is a service that connects your Twitter account with your Instagram account. Many iOS device users use Instagram to store the photographs they shoot with their phones. With InstaBG, those Instagram photos can be automatically set as the background to your Twitter profile. In addition to the photograph, the background can show likes and dates for your image. Photos can also be set as the background according to categories or tags.

Features:

A user-friendly web service.
Sets Instagram photos as your Twitter profile background.
Automatically updates background.
Can display likes and date for images.
Similar tools: Twilk, Twitbacks and Twitter Patterns.

Check out InstaBG @ www.instabg.com (By Umar from AllThatIsApple)

Symbyoz: Share Ideas & Connect With Important Friends On Facebook, LinkedIn & Twitter

Umar — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 23:01:47 +0000

On many of your social networks, you have friends and contacts that you often do not converse with. This applies to Facebook, LinkedIn, as well as Twitter. Keeping in touch with special contacts on these networks separately can be difficult. Here to offer you a single platform for keeping in touch with those people is a free to use web service called Symbyoz.

Symbyoz is a free to use website that helps you connect with important friends on networks like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. All you have to do is start by connecting your accounts. Your friends are imported and you can add which ones are important to you. While adding your friends you can specify if they are buddies, partners, or VIPs. You can also specify an extra email address for them.

With your friends added you can begin sharing ideas with them and keep in touch with their important updates; they, in turn, can do the same. You can also check out the public ideas forum where you can read valuable ideas shared by all Symbyoz users.

Features:

A user-friendly web service.
Lets you share ideas with friends.
Lets you add special contacts from other social networks.
Supports Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

Check out Symbyoz @ www.symbyoz.com (By Umar from AllThatIsApple)

WTTA.FM: Check Twitter Account Name Availability Every 10 Minutes

Umar — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:01:30 +0000

We all want our preferred usernames while joining a social network. Since Twitter is used by many individuals and companies to get in touch with people and reach out, the ideal username is preferred. But the ideal username is often unavailable which makes you settle for a non-ideal one. Here to help you be notified when the ideal Twitter username is available is a web service called “WTTAFM.”

WTTAFM is a free to use web service that sends you an email notification when your desired username becomes available on Twitter. The site does not require any registrations. All you have to do is visit its homepage, enter your desired username, and the email address you would want to be notified on. The service will then start checking for your desired username’s availability every 10 minutes. As soon as it becomes available, an email notification will be sent to you.

Features:

A user-friendly web service.
Does not require any registration.
Notifies you of the availability of Twitter usernames.
Sends notifications via email.

Check out WTTAFM @ http://wtta.fm

ColdTurkey: Block Distracting Websites When You Are Working

Umar — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 20:01:13 +0000

Facebook and numerous other websites provide you with a constant source of distraction when you are working on your computer. As a result, you end up wasting important work hours on checking status updates and conversing with friends or streaming videos online. To solve this problem for you, an app called Cold Turkey presents a solution.

Cold Turkey is a freeware application for Windows computers. You start using the application by downloading its EXE setup file which is sized at less than 1MB. With the app installed, you can begin selecting the websites you want to be banned while you are working. The app offers you the ability to block many sites including Facebook, eBay, Reddit, and many more. You can always add more sites through their URLs.

Additionally you can specify the duration for the ban – you can specify till when the sites are banned. With your settings adjusted, all you need to do is click the “Go Cold Turkey!” button and you are all ready for work!

Features:

A user-friendly desktop app.
Compatible with Windows computers.
Bans the websites you want to ban.
Lets you define duration of ban.
Helps increase productivity.
Similar tools: StayFocusd, MinutesPlease and KeepMeOut.

Check out ColdTurkey @ www.getcoldturkey.com (By Umar from AllThatIsApple)

TwitWipe: Conveniently Delete All Your Tweets At Once

Umar — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 02:01:56 +0000

Twitter users post all sorts of updates on their accounts. From major events such as birthdays to mundane details such as getting out of the shower, you will see people tweeting everything. If you feel that you have been over-tweeting using your account, it is time to delete your tweets. Doing so manually can be extremely time-consuming. Thankfully there is an app called TwitWipe that lets you do it all in a single go.

TwitWipe is a free to use web app that lets you bulk-delete your tweets. This is better than deleting your Twitter account because you get to keep your username. All you have to do to get started is authorize the app access to your Twitter account and then click on the “Start Wiping” link. You will be asked to confirm your decision after which your tweets will be deleted.

Features:

A user-friendly web service.
Lets you delete all your tweets.
Saves a lot of time.
Does not delete your Twitter account – you keep your username.
Similar tools: DeClutter.

Check out TwitWipe @ www.twitwipe.com/index.php (By Umar from AllThatIsApple)