Wednesday, December 3, 2008

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You Are Offending People On Twitter, But Who?

Posted by OpenSourceMarketer On November - 9 - 2008

Are you offending people on Twitter without even knowing it? The truth is every time you post a new tweet to Twitter you are potentially encouraging someone to stop following you.

By default, Twitter doesn’t tell you when someone kicks you to the curb. So there’s no way to know if something you said made people drop you from their radar.

Fortunately Qwitter provides a simple solution that fills the gap to help you keep track of when people unfollow you. Qwitter even tells you what you said just prior to the person unfollowing you.

This can be extremely valuable information if you are tweeting business related information and you need to know what topics people are wanting to hear about. If several people unfollow you after you post a series of updates on SLR digial cameras, then you might assume that they weren’t interested in that topic.

Personally I unfollowed several people during the finally days of the 2008 Presidential race because of their negative attitudes. If they used Qwitter, then they would have known that I unfollowed them after they made negative tweets.

Now to be fair, knowing when someone unfollows you is not always as helpful as it might sound. Sometimes it’s just not clear why they left and you might find it is more of a novalty than a matter of business intelligence.

But if you’re interested in having more visibility into what’s going on with your Twitter followers and you’d like to watch for follower trends, then Qwitter is a great solution.

Charles McKeever
OpenSourceMarketer.com

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How To Track Twitter Replies Using SMS

Posted by OpenSourceMarketer On August - 28 - 2008

Recently I’ve been relying more and more on social networking sites like Twitter to communicate with people and get answers to questions. I’ve even learned about a some useful tools that have helped me with Internet marketing.

But as great as Twitter is there are times when it’s left me hanging when it comes to tracking replies. Not everyone on Twitter replies instantly to your Tweets and that means you can miss replies that come in minutes or hours later.

If you’re gonna build relationships on social networks you have to be responsive. Until now it’s been a problem for me on Twitter. I tried using TweetBeep to track Twitter messages, but it just didn’t catch all the messages to keep me on top of things. But thanks to a tip from @BradMcFadden at FishWitz I now know of a great way to track Twitter replies.

RyanK from TweetTrak has created a bot that converts your Twitter replies to direct messages. If you have SMS turned on for direct messages you’ll receive a text message each time someone replies to you on Twitter. It’s a great way to track Twitter replies using SMS.

Here’s all you have to do to turn it on:

1. On Twitter, Follow Tweettrak
2. Send a direct message to tweettrak: ‘track @RyanK’ (substituting your username, or any other search term)
3. Enjoy track functionality!
4. Tweet about it and tell your friends!

According to @RyanK, the TweetTrak website is suppose to be coming soon and it will allow you to filter out people you already have device notifications turn on for.

This little Tweet tracker has already helped me to catch a couple of important replies that I would have definitely missed. Hopefully this will help you too.

Tell your friends,

Charles McKeever

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