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Friend or Follow? Twitter Checker

Mauldor — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:45:01 +0000

Ever wondered if all them people your following on Twitter are actually following you back? You could go through the list and see how you can Direct Message of course (if you cannot – they are not following you). A Much easier way is this web site – Friend or Follow – feed it your Twitter name and it will soon spit out who is not following you back, you can then start to remove the crap right.

AlertThingy – Your Social Desktop

Mauldor — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:29:50 +0000

AlertThingy brings the very latest updates from your favourite social networks direct to your desktop. Send Tweets, update your Facebook status, upload photos to Flickr, post to Tumblr and more. For business users we have Yammer, Basecamp and Huddle integrations. So you can mix work and play.

Plus you get the coolest looking RSS reader on the interweb which makes it easy to share news items with your friends.

Take control of your life streams; With so much data it can be easy to suffer information overload. AlertThingy provides a simple filtering system that allows you to make the data you’re most interested in visually more obvious.

Quickly see all of your friends and contacts from different networks through the Contacts list. Easily create groups of contacts to see only alerts relating to them.

Twitter is the new Spam

Mauldor — Sun, 31 May 2009 18:14:34 +0000

I have to hold my hand up and say that I never really fully understand the lure of Twitter, it allows you to write upto 140 Characters and let everyone know what you are doing. The problem lies in that just like email, you can get spammed with useless infomation if you are not careful.

Let us examine first of all how it could be used by real people – I add a whole bunch of people I have met either on-line or in real life who also have Twitter Accounts and they also add me back, this gives you a number and like anything in life, the bigger this number, the more popular you seem to be. On this model – I Twitter that I am going Live or I am playing World of Warcraft and any of my friends can quickly join my in this – the same works the other way as well of course and it is a way of sort of keeping track of what others are doing.

Now let us imagine that you wanted to have LOADS of people following you and in return you follow them back, if you had let us say 500 people on there, the chance of actually seeing a Twitter that might be relevant is slim to none. I joined a few of these so called “get loads of users” sites for twitter and very quickly a couple of things became apparent:

When I stopped following people, they equalliy stopped following me – almost automated in fact.
These sites used MY Account to Twitter as if it came from me – this I was not happy about as it gives the wrong impression like saying “I think this is great, you should try it also”.

What I do is this – I quite happily Follow people as I come across them (real people not automated sites) and I give them a while to see if they follow me back, if they do not, then I remove them. The other aspect is if one person keeps spamming the Twitter advertising there site every 5 seconds, they also are gone. I am not that bothered that my Numbers are Low, I already wasted my time trying to boost my numbers on Last.FM, Livestream and so forth – its a stupid pointless task that gets you nowhere really – so what I have listened to over 50K worth of songs …. And??

I know others have found sucess in having many people but I am happy to carry on as I am with only the people I want to see updates from…

Twitter And ReTweet (RT)

Mauldor — Sun, 10 May 2009 11:28:18 +0000

I always Struggled with the Concept of Twitter but it has some uses such as been able to know when people are going Live with there stream and to pass on communications. I used to have a client or a Firefox Plug-in which gave me real time “Twitter” Messages but these days I am happy to just pull up the web page and see what is happening – save’s me getting annoyed.

Now there is a new thing it seems that has come around, it is called ReTweeting or simply RT – this allows you to take somebody else Tweet and send it back out to all your followers, a sort of “Pass it on” messaging system. Now what happens though if you not only have the original posters on your tweet but a whole bunch of people who also “RT” the message?? The Answer is you end of with a page full of the very same tweet and if that does not drive you mad – then fair play to you.

Personally – this just re-enforces to me to ask myself the question “What the hell use is Twitter?” – I just had a look at mine and I am only following 13 People and apart from a few good posts on there with decent links – the rest are shameless promotional posts about there Live Stream and “I am coming on-line” or a pointer to there web site which by chance I already know !!

Maybe this is why I disabled Twitter the last time? Maybe this is why I dropped a lot of people from my list and who really cares if I used Twitter the way it was meant to be used with me posting:

“On the Computer”, “Writing a Blog Post”, “Playing a game”, “Talking to on Skype” and so forth..

What are your thoughts on this wole ReTwitter thing or even the use of Twitter Itself? I am alone in thinking this is the stupidest thing ever?

Web Purge 2.0

Mauldor — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:09:02 +0000

I had some inspiration that I should go on a purge of all the web sites that I personally think I should stop using, I slept on it overnight to make sure it was not a flash in the pan idea that I would regret later and once my mind was made up, I went on a purge of all the site I had registered and used.

USTREAM TV

The first casualty was Ustream.TV – this was of no use to me and I had my fill so armed with this I made sure I deleted the Video’s I had recorded, removed the show and finally the user accounts, I Mirrored this on my IRC Client, no more shall I be on there for whatever reason, be it watching shows or broadcasting.

BLOG.TV

This was another Streaming show that I had two accounts on and had tested streaming plus recorded some video. They allow you to delete the accounts fully and I did this on both meaning again this is another site that I cannot see myself either streaming from or visiting.

FACEBOOK

I had left FaceBook once before and it is not so much as a delete but rather make the account inactive. For some time now I had not really seen the point of updating what I was doing and for most part not that bothered what others were doing either. I choose to once again de-activate the account and leave this behind for maybe the last time.

TWITTER

I added many people and had twitter clients to tell me what was going on but did I need to know that a person is now out of bed, making something to eat, bored and so forth? Did people really read that i was updating my web site, playing a game or on Skype? The answer for most part was probably no, so with this I removed the account and the client software and it is not something I will miss to be honest.

NING Sites

I went through a few of these Ning sites and removed myself from them, I am not really a Fan anyhow of Ning and happy to try and keep mine going but not happy to update others along the way. One of them I was Admin on and by me delting myself cannot be accused of messing with the settings. The other was Chris Pirillo Geeks Site which seem to email me way too much, so that went as well.

Other Comments

I went through a few other sites but could not find a way to delete myself – these will just have to be left alone, I removed many from my Favourites anyhow. You may well ask “What you going to do now you have removed all these sites” – to answer this is quite simple, I will work more on my own site’s and streaming and stop worrying about what other people are doing. I will probably have upset a few people for my actions but I feel the need to move forward

YooNoo – Simplify your online life

Mauldor — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 12:51:58 +0000

* Manage all your Social Networks and IM in one place.

* Keep up to date with your friends update whilst on the Web.

* Unified Status Updates for Facebook, Twiiter and more.

To get this firefox plug-in – head off to http://api.yoono.com

This is a Firefox Plugin and adds a sidebar which to the left, you get pop ups on any status updates across all of your social networks, I have only just installed this so time will tell how useful it will be but it looks good to me so far.

Washing machine tweet's when finished

Mauldor — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 17:16:40 +0000

A Rather nifty guy has modded his (old) washing machine so when it is finished – it sends a Tweet. Quite why it matters to know the exact second it finishes is beyond me but looks cool none the less.

Twitterlicious

Mauldor — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 21:42:34 +0000

Download

Download x86 (32 bit) Windows Installer (for most people)
Download x64 (64 bit) Windows Installer (if you have Windows x64)

Twitterlicious is a Windows application that makes using Twitter more fun. It handles all the hard work, leaving you to read and write tweets with the minimum fuss. Best of all, Twitterlicious is free!

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Ping.FM – Update all your Social Networks at once

Mauldor — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 21:19:01 +0000

Do you use Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and a whole rafter of microblogging sites yet have to update each one? Well now there is a free service which supports a whole range of services and allows you to update the entire lot in one go.

Along with Adding in various networks to update, the way you update them is also varied, from iphone to web page to programs – the choice is yours.

I agree you can get a desktop program to do this very task – which is fine if you are near a computer but as this operates from anywhere – its a good alternative.