plentyoftweeps.com
Plenty Of Tweeps can be accurately defined as a dating site for Twitterers. Let’s face it, messages that are limited to 140 characters are not necessarily the best framework for knowing others. They might provide an interesting way for breaking the ice, but that’s it. If you want to take it any further, you either change the platform you are using for communicating among yourselves, or you try a site like this one. It will let you create a detailed biography (complete with photographs), and others can then proceed to “Like It” in order to show you they are interested in knowing you better. You can do the same for others, obviously. And private messages can be sent and received effortlessly.
Moreover, the site will empower you to search for single Twitter users based both on age and location. You can look up singles in the city you are located in or search for users in any city of the world in an equally smooth fashion.
Getting started is also something quite simple, as you can log in using your Twitter credentials and have full access to all of the services and functionalities that were just mentioned.
twejay.com
Many people are known to say “Oh, I love Twitter but I just don’t have the time to read my timeline in full”. Well, that is set to become a thing of the past. This service will let you take your timeline and have it read to you. This means that now you can deal with all the tweets that have come into your stream since you last checked it out, since these tweets will be read to you while you are exercising or shopping. You no longer have to sit through a lengthy succession of messages that end up being confusing, and you don’t have to focus in one single task either. It is important to note that this service can also be used for reading tweets that are not within your timeline. That is, if you execute a search you can have the resulting tweets read. This can be useful in a plurality of cases, and the one that I thought of more immediately was letting people who are visually impaired have an idea of what Twitter is all about.
twittaquitta.com
People stop following each other on Twitter every two seconds. That is nothing to worry about for individual users, specially if we take into account that the amount of information one has when he starts following this or that Twitterer is not that encompassing to begin with. You start following someone without him accepting or declining, and when you get bored you stop following him. It is as simple as that, and for the vast majority of users it is nothing to worry about. That is probably the reason why an e-mail notifying you that a person has stopped following you is not sent out. Conversely, if you are promoting a brand on Twitter and people begin unfollowing you massively you will most likely want to be informed about it in order to try and rectify the situation. A dwindling number of followers not only means that your product is being marketed wrongly, it actually gives a bad image of your brand since mot people equate a big number of followers with prestige and vice versa. This service aims to let you take care of all that by sending out a notification when someone has stopped following you. It is as simple as that. You sign in with your Twitter screen name and password and provide an email, and from that point onwards you will be notified on the spot when someone deserts you.
retweetfollow.com
To some, retweeting has become an integral part of their Twitter experience to the point that their streams have little in terms of original content – they are made up of nothing but a retweet after the other. The ones who devised the site under review right now obviously took that into account, as RetweetFollow is a search engine for Twitter that enables you to find (and follow) retweeters. These are found by going through the keywords in their tweeted URLs. In that way, it is easy to determine who is interested in what and build up a list of contacts that share your same interests 100 %. In addition to being organizable in lists, you can export these fellow Twittereres as a plain text file, and even send them tweets showing your gratitude for the knowledge that they are putting about. Most notably, you can also thank them for retweeting any blog post of yours. That is one of the true assets of this service – it gives you the chance to know who is tweeting about your original content, and you don’t even have to visit their profiles in order to find that out. You can easily make new allies though such a feature, and marketing anything becomes far easier as a result.
tweetvac.com
TweetVac can be regarded as an alternative Twitter stream in which all the content that is highlighted has to do with traveling and vacationing. That is, the site compiles these tweets that have been put forth by the ones who have holidayed somewhere, and who are keen on sharing the experience with just everybody using the popular micro-sharing platform. It goes without saying that the site compiles not only tweets but also the images and videos that go with these. The site will obviously be of great help to people who are thinking about going to any specific location for their holidays, and who want something else besides the vision of the smarmy salesperson at the travel agency. TweetVac is instantly likeable because it puts you in contact with people who are exactly just like you.
followupthen.com
Task management tools are certainly practical, but the fact remains that someone who only wants to be reminded about a specific activity at a specific date and time could find them a bit too much. I mean, would you create an account and set everything up just in order to be reminded that you have to call Tom at nine o’ clock? The answer is clearly a negative one. You will end up trusting in your memory and keeping your fingers crossed. Alternatively, you can give Follow Up Then a try. In essence, it is a simple service whereby you CC Follow Up Then when you send out an email. The address that you use should include a specific timeframe, something like “5hours@followupthen.com” or “2days@followupthen.com”. Upon doing so, a reminder (only one) will be put your way in due time. Maybe future revisions of the service could give users the opportunity to have more than one reminder per request sent out. Just a thought. In any case, the system is easy enough to make the whole service an immediate one indeed. You don’t even have to create an account to get going.
playtagnic.com
With Tagnic, you can give and get +tags to and from anyone — anywhere you tweet.
The concept that lies at the heart of this site is as simple to apprehend as it is easy to be enjoyed. In essence, Tagnic is nothing but the result of applying tags to people when tweeting. Think of it as hashtags for people and you will be 100 % on target. The way these tags are added is quite straightforward, as you simply add a plus sign “+” and the corresponding adjective at the end of the tweet. Upon doing so, the tag will be added to that person’s Tagnic profile. When certain tags end up being combined, the person will receive a badge, too. In a certain sense, it is all a big game. But it is a game that has a serious side to it, too, as the ones who take part of it will have a better chance to get to know each other as people. Some of the featured badges include “Rockstar”, “Book Worm”, “Top Chef”… I guess you get the idea. Again, it is all really simple and easy to get to grips with, not to mention quite enjoyable. Those to whom a lot of followers mean nothing and who place the real value of social interaction on the actual depth of the relationships might end up flocking to it.
locafollow.com
Simply put, LocaFollow is a new tool that is geared towards Twitter users. It lets them locate fellow users in a couple of different ways, including looking them up by location and by biographical information so that the bond which is created online goes hand in hand with relevance in the physical world as well. Besides, when executing a search it is possible see the person’s latest tweet in a very direct way, and have something of an idea as regards the kind of tweets which are forthcoming from that person. On the other hand, a “Bulk Follow” button is provided for you to follow people massively if you feel like going truly social. A nice touch is that when you visit the site for the first time it geolocates your position. That information is then employed to show you a list of Twitter users within your same city or town. Lastly, it is important to mention that you will not have to disclose your Twitter password in order to use this service – OAuth is thankfully supported, so that you can get started in a matter of seconds upon first addressing your browser to www.localfollow.com.
