Tag: FOLLOWERS

Twitter is ditching the 'Followed By' and 'You Both Follow' features for a combined feature called Connections. This new area shows up on each user's profile, right below their following/followers numbers, and tells you which connections you have in common with that user. It's still divided into 'followed by' and 'you both follow' sections, they've just been consolidated into one area of the ...

For a brief period this afternoon, you could send out a simple tweet that would automatically make any Twitter user follow you. The bug was stupidly simple: you just had to tweet "accept @accountname," and you'd get an instant follow. It made the rounds of the blogs after being discovered by Neowin, but Twitter was able to put the kibosh on it a mere half-hour after it first came to our ...

Follow Finder is an easy-to-use service from Google Labs; it lets you enter the username of a Twitter user that you're already following, and it gives you recommendations for similar users that you might want to follow (in case you don't have enough "social" noise in your life). From a business standpoint, it can be interesting because it maps out an entire segment of industry in one fell ...

In a new post on Twitter's Status blog, Twitter points out that a sudden surge in followers on a few select accounts was due to a large number of insecure passwords being used by regular Twitter users. What's happening is that users are re-using passwords that they've used on other sites, and some of those other sites turn out to have not been secure. That's the thing; as soon as any of the sites ...

How do you determine what something is worth? Generally speaking, the answer is that something is worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it. This comes up when trying to evaluate the value of companies, but it can also come up when trying to evaluate the value of something that is conceptually new. For example, years ago companies popped up that created an economy around the hyperlink. Today ...

You never forget your first. Well, okay, maybe sometimes you do. I don't think many people could tell you who their very first Twitter follower was, but a new service called FirstFollower can. Put in your username, and it will show you the username of the first person who ever started following you. It's the inverse of MyFirstFollow, which shows you the first person you followed who you still ...

We first covered Twerp Scan back in April of last year. At the time we commended it as a useful way to scan your list of followers for accounts that are simply following you as a way to get onto your list and hopefully be noticed - in other words, Twitter spam followers. Since then, Twerp Scan has gone through a rather dramatic redesign, and has added the ability not only to scan the accounts that ...

Twitter, when used correctly, is the ultimate meritocracy. You can freely follow anyone you want, and just as freely unfollow them. For most users this means following people whose tweets they perceive they are gaining value from, and not following people who waste their time. There are, of course, exceptions to this rule, particularly when it comes to so many of the self-professed "Social Media ...

If you've been on Twitter over the past day or so, you may have noticed some big changes to the way the site shows users' lists of followers and followees. Instead of just showing names and icon, these pages now display more detailed information, including location and most recent tweet. All of the actions you have available for each user are collected into a compact drop-down menu, so you can ...

Is Twitter a popularity contest? If you think so, then you might be interested in Twitter-Train, but for the sane people reading this you'll probably want to move on. Twitter-Train is essentially a pyramid scheme whereby if you follow a prescribed list of Twitter accounts, you will be added to that same list for the next 40 Twitter-Train users. Basically, by willfully polluting your Twitter stream ...

One way to figure out whether you should follow someone on Twitter is by seeing who your mutual friends. Twtrfrnd makes that very easy: just enter your username and someone else's, and it does the rest. Soon, it will even let you log in to automatically see friends you have in common with people who have recently followed you. Finding common friends is a good way to know whether a specific ...

If you're an obsessive Twitter user, you probably notice when someone stops following you. How do you figure out who it is, though? It can be tough, especially if you have a lot of followers. Well, now there's FriendOrFollow, a site that tells you who's not following you back, and who you're not following. FriendOrFollow is handy for discovering new folks to follow, adding people you might have ...

digg_url = "http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2008/01/28/twitter-pack-project-find-twitter-ers-by-topic-location/"; If you're new to the whole Twitter scene, and your friends have yet to climb on the bandwagon, your Twitter page might be looking awful lonely. You might have no one to stalk, er, follow-and no one is following you. Enter the Twitter Pack Project, a wiki where the community ...

In a recent study, Google was found to have some of the most loyal followers according to recent studies. The studies looked at online services, computing, and consumer services divisions of the IT world. The surveys measured the importance in customer's eyes, and which overall services you would recommend. Apple and Symantec were also ranked high on the Satmetrix survey. ...