It seems that people are interested in freelancing or earning extra money and in twitter. Since I wrote a number of articles about twitter before anyone was visiting this site (and because I’m lazy), I’m re-posting what I consider to be my 5 best articles about Twitter.
They are on a variety of topics and aren’t exactly the how to get started with twitter types of articles but I think you will still find them useful.
- Green Twitter: Environmental Resources – Last May, Twitter was going through a lot of growing pains, service was unstable and the users were constantly complaining about it. In response, I wrote my first article about Twitter and created my Green Twitter list, which is a list of users working on environmental and green issues. I also created an opml file of the users web sites to import into feed readers. The list, however, has not been updated in quite some time and is on my to-do list – it just keeps getting pushed to the bottom.
- Monitter – Embed Live Bigfoot Search Stream Results – This article was obviously written when I was being more creative with titles and less concerned with keywords. It is a mini review of Monitter, which is an online keyword tracking tool for twitter. It runs in a web page and you can follow three keywords simultaneously. This could be very useful when searching twitter for freelancing work.
- Twellow: Categorize Your Twellow Self – Twellow is a directory of Twitter users that cateogorizes them based on interests or field. The problem is that Twellow categorizes based on what is written in the twitter bio. As I mention in the article, I used to have Doctor Who written in my bio because I was a fan of the show and Twellow had me in the health and medicine category. You can, however, claim your profile by logging in and than add and remove yourself from categories. Twellow is also one of the best ways to find other users with similar interests.
- Qwitter – Find Out Who Has Stopped Following You on Twitter – A humorous look at Qwitter, a tool that emails you when someone has stopped following you and what your last tweet was before that happened.
- Ranking Yourself on Twitter: Does it Even Matter – An examination of our obsession with ranking and grading ourselves in all aspects of our lives. Do you care about your twitter grade or influence? I might check it out but I’m not going to broadcast broadcast my scores.
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That’s wonderful collection of articles. I will surely go through each of them in detail, especially since I have just started to understand Twitter!
And it’s a great idea to bring back and present the old/lost but useful articles :)
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haven’t read most of them so i guess i’ll visit your archives :) nice list!
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Great links! Especially the Green ones. Thank you for reposting this!
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Thanks, Kim. You should think about doing social media consulting. I hear you can make $300/ hour in that field. You’re obviously qualified.
@Raju – Thanks! I didn’t have many readers the first couple of months so I thought I would highlight articles of interest.
@Stratos – Thanks! Be careful in the archives – there’s some weird stuff in there – like using rss feeds in google spreadsheets to make charts. Seriously.
@Carla – You are the reason I mentioned that I haven’t updated that list in a long time – you should totally be on it!
@Vered – Thank you! I really appreciate it.
Oh, Kim.
That one on Qwitter is too much! I’ll bet you could post one of those a month. That is Hee-larious!
I’m heading over right now to sign up. I can hardly wait for someone to unfollow me!
George
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Kim,
That Qwitter is hilarious, I don’t think it’s working lately though, I have had about 20 new followers yet my total is about 2 more than I started with.
The best one yet – stopped following me after I said nitey nite, i’m thinking he wasn’t very kid friendly! he he.
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@George – Have fun with that. I actually haven’t received an unfollow email recently so I’m not sure if it’s working properly. I find it highly unlikely that someone hasn’t stopped following me.
And let me know when you are signed up – I’ll unfollow you ;-)
@Dee – Since I wrote the article another person unfollowed me after I said thank you – it’s pretty funny.
Hi Kim,
I use SocialToo.com
You can set up autofollow there. You also get stats every night – about who followed and who unfollowed.
Yes, you should call yourself “social media consultant” – I love your tweets :)
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Hi Maya – How do you stop from autofollowing spammers? Can you setup criteria. I get emails when I have new followers and go and check their profiles and their websites one by one. I guess that’s not as efficient …
And thank you :-)
Great articles Kim. Tweelow looks interesting
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Hi Kim – I joined Qwitter but it didn’t send me any emails yet. I haven’t tried the ranking one yet – but I did try one that told you how much your Twitter profile was worth. And mine was worth very little.
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@Madhur – Twellow can be a great way to find people with similar interests. I wish more people knew about it.
@Cath – I think something is wrong with Qwitter. I haven’t received an unfollow email in quite some time and I know that can’t be right. People unfollow me all the time.
Simply great articles there.Twitter is a phenomenon and reading new things about it is always a pleasure.Great blog there.
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@Abhishek – Thanks! I’m glad you enjoyed the articles.