Ghost Tweeting. Is it Good or Bad?

Ghost Tweeting is another topic that has been trending in the last few weeks. Ghost Tweeting is the process of multiple people tweeting on the same account. There are many power users who have admitted of using  Ghost Tweeting method to manage their Twitter profiles. Most of the account of power users are too popular and people expect a lot from them (both quality and quantity). So most of these high profile Twitter users hire someone to update their Twitter account.

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Always Keep Your Twitter Account Clean

Twitter has evolved as one of the most powerful social media tool and a lot of users are newly being registered with it. But many of them actually are not aware of the purpose and the effective way to use Twitter. For all the newbie in Twitter, I am listing here some basic things to take care for effectively managing your Twitter profile. These basic things will surely help you in the long run.

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Twitter Lists. A New and Great Way to Organize Your Followers

Twitter has introduced a new feature named Twitter Lists, which helps you to organize your followers and followings. This feature is in its beta stage and was thrown out to only a select few users. I was really surprised to see this feature on my Twitter home page and was curious to know about it. This feature helps you to discover  new and interesting Twitter accounts. You just to create a new list from your Twitter home page and don’t forget to give this list a suitable name. You can access this list directly by typing twitter.com/(your twitter profile name)/(list name).
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Twitter Analyzer….An Amazing Tool to Analyze Your Twitter Profile

 

There are many online tools for managing ones Twitter account, and I have mentioned about some 10 Twitter tools which are very much useful in managing your Twitter profile. This week I came across another interesting online tool for analyzing your Twitter account and is known as Twitter Analyzer. Twitter Analyzer provides an excellent graphical representation of your Twitter account performance which is very much helping in evaluating your Twitter account. This tool is one of the best I have seen so far when consider such similar tools.

Twitter AnalyzerTo use this tool just enter your Twitter username into the text box provided in the main page of the website. You can see a graphical representation of the number of Tweets per each day. If you click on the number of Tweets on any particular day on the graph, you would be able to see more detailed information. These information include details such asTotal Update Messages, Total Updates Retweeted, Percentage of Updates Retweeted, Unique Users Retweeting etc.

At the bottom of the Tweet Analyzer dashboard there are certain buttons which are very much useful, and these buttons are named User, Friends, Mentions, Groups, Trends and Fun. I would like to elaborate all these buttons individually to you and these are based on my limited knowledge only.

User
This button contains default user information such as the number of Tweets on each day, retweet ratio, unique user retweet, unique readers reach etc. There is another sub button of the User button named Chats which tells you the details about the message interactions between you and your followers. There is another button named Popularity which tells you about your popularity rate, i.e how many times your profile name has been mentioned in Twitter. Another button named Reach determines the number of readers that have been exposed to your messages. The button named Subjects gives you an idea about the tops subjects that you are Tweeting about. The Hash Tag buttons tells you about the top Has Tags that you are using in your Tweets. The Links button tells you about the tops links that you have used for Tweeting. And Finally the Apps buttons gives you the details of the top Twitter applications that you are using to Tweet your messages.

Friends
The Friends button in Twitter Analyzed is another interesting button which gives you an idea about your friend’s activities. There is a sub button named Online Followers which give you the number of the total followers that are online which you login to your account at any point of time. The button Followers Growth Rate tells you about how many new users you add or lose each day. The Followers Density Map gives you idea about the geographical locations of your Twitter followers. The Followers Activity button tells you information about how many of your followers are active on Twitter. The RTing Friends provides data about the follower who Retweet your Tweets the most. The Closest Friends button provides information on the friends that you contact the most. The Disregarded Friends button gives you the list of your most disregarded friends, ie the list of friends or followers who send you messages, but you didn’t reply them back.

Mentions
The Mentions button helps to see the list of friends that you most mention in your chats and messages. The My Mentioning – All sub button gives you the list of friends that you have mentioned most. My Mentioning – Updates tells you about the friends that you mention most in your updates. The My Mentioning – Social button tells you about the details of friends you most mention in your Chat Messages. TheMy Mentions – All button gives you the list of all the friends that mention you the most. The My Mentions – Updates button gives the list of friends who mention you the most in their Update Messages. The My Mentions-Social button helps you see the friends most mentioning you in their Chats.

Groups
Groups by OccupationThe Twitter Analyzer Group button allows grouping your friends by occupation, joining date, popularity, gender and actions. The Groups By Occupation sub button in Twitter Analyzer tells you details about the job and occupation of your followers. The Groups By Join Date button tells you about the join date of your followers. The Groups By Popularity gives list of your friends based on their popularity, and the button Groups By Gender arranges or groups your followers by gender. The Groups by Actions button help you see what your followers are doing the most.

The button Trends and Fun are yet to be live and are under development. Hope they must provide more interesting facts and figures to this already amazing tool. I hope you all will enjoy this tool and would start using this in your day to day tweeting process. Thanks…Twitter Analyzer Button

 

5 Social Media Sites that I Use

Social Media sites have become an integral part of online marketing and has made the online marketing process and traffic generation much more easier. Social Media sites includes social networking and social bookmarking sites, which are mainly based on Web 2.0 technologies. To have an excellent social media profile one must be hard working and would be willing to spare time on these sites, growing the network, reading and appreciating others stuffs. In social media sites, you are able to interact with the other users through sharing and participation. I am also a Social Media addict and is a member of various Social MEdia Sites. Here I would like to share a few Social Media sites that I find more important.

1)Digg
DiggDigg is the most popular social bookmarking site where you are able to post interesting articles from the net. If the articles of news that you are posting is of great interest, it would be getting more votes. Once it gets a certain amount of vote (Diggs) in a particular period of time, you post would get into the most popular pages. Once you post gets on to the most popular pages, the site which contains the submitted article or news is bound to get a huge amount of traffic. Since Digg is too sensitive avoid doing spammy stuff and creating multiple accounts from the same domain, as your Digg account, your IP adress and even your website may get banned from Digg.

2) StumbleUpon
StumbleuponStumbleUpon is another interesting social media sites, where you are able to submit interesting articles and get traffic based on the interest it generates among the other users. In Stumbleupon your post can get an upvote (Thumbs up) or a down vote (Thumbs Down) based on its quality. In StumbleUpon also you have to maintain a good network which contains users of similar interest as you. You can also Join certain groups, which suites your interest and requirements. StumbleUpon is said to derive quality traffic with lower bounce rate and is very popular among social media enthusiasts.

3)Twitter
TwitterTwitter is another famous social media site which is growing at a rapid pace. Twitter is actually a microblogging social media site, where you can share your stuffs with a character length which is limited to 140. Twitter has emerged as a powerful social media tool and is also know for generating high quality traffic. More and more users are registering for Twitter and many companies and Organization has found Twitter as an effective tool for marketing and lead generation.

4)Mixx
MixxAnother social bookmarking site, which is based on voting up / voting down, some what similar to Digg.  Even though not as popular as Digg, it is soon carving a niche for itself in the social media world. It also has the popular section, where an article / news is displayed after it has attained a certain number of votes and user comments. Mixx has the options of creating and joining groups and communities, which helps in getting votes and traffic. This site also derives quality traffic to the site, but requires constant work and participation to build a reputable profile.

5)Twine
TwineTwine is the latest Social Media site that I have started using and have found it to be extremely good for quality traffic generation. Twine also requires you to build a good network and regular participation to stay afloat in the competition. If you have a good network you would be able to share and bookmark good stuffs among your network. In Twine you have the facility to create and Join groups, which would prove to be a major source of traffic generation.

10 Twitter Tools for You

Twitter is one of the most popular micro blogging and social media site, which is growing at a rapid pace. A lot of individuals and organizations are using Twitter in order to enhance their sales and marketing. It is also effective in brand building. Twitter is a social media site where you can express your views and thoughts in 140 characters. You can also share links along with your thoughts. A lot of tools are available which makes the usage of Twitter more smooth. I have been trying a lot of tools and each day many new tools emerge, which are simply superb. I would like to share some important Twitter tools that I have found useful in managing Twitter accounts.

1. Twitturly
twitturlyTwitturly is another tool for managing Twitter account and has some similarity with the famous social bookmarking site Digg. Twitturly actually tracks the URLs around Twitter and provides a quick real time view of what people are talking on Twitter. Each time when someone tweets a URL in Twitter, Twitturly takes note of this URL and gives a vote for each Tweet that URL receives by different users. The more votes a URLs get in the last 24 hours, the higher the chances of ranking higher on to the top 100 of Twitturly.

2. TweetDeck
TweetDeck

TweetDeck is a desktop softare which helps in managing your Twitter profile efficiently. Tweetdeck displays all your Twitter network activities such as the Tweet made by your friends, direct messages and Replies. It also helps in performing advance searches on the overall Twitter networs, your friend’s tweet etc. This tool is one of the best Twitter tool that I have found out. TweetDeck help in customizing your Twitter experience with columns, groups, saved searches and automatic updates helping you to effortlessly stay updated with the people and topics you care about.

3. Twhirl
Twhirl

Twhirl is also another Desktop software for Twitter, which is based on Adobe Air Platform. It connects to your Twitter account and sends notification for new messages and tweets. It also provides you with options such as retweet, reply etc. Twhirl helps in improving your Twitter experience and offers various configuration options to enhance your Twitter management.

4.  Splitweet
PplitweetSplittweet is aimed at offering Tweet services for those who needs to use multiple Twitter account at the same time and send Tweets through them. This is an online tool and free to regsiter. Once registered you can add your multiple Twitter accounts and send Tweets Via them together with one single step.

5. Huitter
HuitterHuitter is auseful Twitter tool which helps in the mass unfollowing of those people who are not following you back. It is an online tool and is free to use. Huitter helps in cleaning your Twitter account by removing unwanted users in your list and make your Twitter account more effective.

6. Twellow
TwellowTwellow is an online Yellow page for Twitter account, which helps you to categorize and find usrs based on located, profession or subjects of interest. It is free and easy to register and is very helpful when you need to find users belonging to a particular section, group or geographical location.

7. JustTweetit
JusttweetitJusttweetit is an online directory of Twitter profiles, which helps you to find users of having similar interests, and to find and connect with them on Twitter. YOu just have to register and enter your Twitter details so that other users can find you easily. This tool is very much handy when it comes to selecting friend/followers based on religion, country, occupation, language etc.

8. TwtrFrnd
TwtfrndThis interesting tool helps to find out the common followers between any two Twitter accounts. This is also helpful when you need to find out the followers of a strong Twitter profile. Just enter the two Twitter usernames into TwtrFrnd. This is also  an online tool and you just need to register for free and avail the options to enhance your Twitter profile.

9. RetweetRank
Retweetrank1Retweetrank is another online Twitter tool which lets you find the Tweet rank of any twitter user. With the rank, latest retweets of the user are shown and an RSS feed can also be grabbed for the same. Monitoring retweets can provide you with a better understanding of audience to the originator while others can see the most interesting tweets of a user. The top ranked twitter users, who have been most retweeted recently, are listed in the leaderboard. You can know more about this tool at Retweetrank.

10. Twittangle
TwittangleTwitTangle is a free service that helps reduce the mess of having too many friends on twitter. Twittangle allows you to rate and tag your friends and then filter your timeline to help you easily find the tweets that are most important to you. You can also create custom groups of your followers and filter you timeline by that group. So get ready to use Twittange