There are two websites I would like to introduce to help you get more out of your Twitter experience. One is Twellow and the other is TwitterFriends.
Twellow
Twellow is a fellowship of Twitterers, put into categories, so you can find people with common interests and they can find you. It’s supposed to help you cut through the clutter; all the noise in your Twitter stream (especially if you are following a lot of people.)
You can put yourself into 20 categories at the most, so explore the categories and pick the ones that you have business interests in. They have hundreds of categories, not to mention subcategories, and they’re willing to add more categories if you have suggestions.
You can get the pulse of what’s going on in a category by clicking on Pulse and then any of the categories you’ve selected. Perhaps the current trend of Twitter conversation will give you ideas for a blog post to write or a product to create.
Maybe you want to see what’s up with the people you follow who are your favorites. Simply hit the Friends tab and you’ll see their last tweets. They are in order of Tweeters with the most followers on down to the least followers.
The same can be done when you want to check on what your followers are doing. Click on the Followers tab and bingo, you have a wealth of information at your fingertips. Not only can you respond to something they’ve recently tweeted and build your relationship with them, but if you think creatively you’ll come up with ways to use the information or questions in the tweets to build a product. You can find the needs and help people.
Now here’s a really cool feature – TwellowHood. This is where you can find peeps to follow in your home town, or any town in the US or Canada for that matter. It’s a quick way to decide who you want to follow as their pics and bios are right on the page. People registered on Twellow can also do an extended bio, which is a nice feature if you want to check someone out a little further.
TwitterFriends
If you’re into statistics, Twitter-Friends.com is a great tool with very comprehensive Twitter statistics.
See who you’ve replied to the most as well as who’s replied to you in bar graph form. Check out your stats with categories like replies sent per day, conversational rank, fans, loyalty, link quotient, and more. You can even compare yourself to someone else. And there’s also a TwitGraph that sums up how you’re doing on Twitter with a quick glance. This is so interesting you have to be careful you don’t spend all day here.
There is a neat visualization chart with conversation bubbles. But of course it’s up to you to interpret the information and decide what you want to do with it. You can check out your conversations with another Tweeter. You can also view the conversations of any two people, but that feels kind of creepy.
Twitter is all about building relationships, and TwitterFriends helps you get a clearer picture of your network of relationships on Twitter. You can also find out who tweets the most and which Tweeters post the most links.
I recommend both of these Twitter applications in your quest to narrow down (or merely find!) your areas of interest so you can use the information to take your business to the next level. They are also great for getting overall pictures of how you tweet and will give you some ideas on what you can make better. Lastly, they are great tools for helping you establish new relationships as well as further ongoing ones.
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