Follow Friday? Again? What’s it about?

It’s Friday once more, and that means it’s #followfriday – you might want to read the last couple of #followfriday posts I’ve written to find out more:
 

Follow Friday – It’s Not Just a List!
It’s Follow Friday! What’s Follow Friday?
It’s Follow Friday – a quick reminder

 
If you can’t be bothered to read those, it’s pretty simple [...]

Foller.me – Find out about any Twitter user

 An email in this morning asking us to have a look at this new service from Foller.me.
We’re always up for finding out about new Twitter apps and uses, so off we go to have a good look around
They tell us: 
Foller.me is a new third-party Twitter service that renders instant detailed information about a [...]

Twitter Interview with Heather Noble of Salt Solutions

A quick interview with Heather Noble of Salt Solutions a site offering a comprehensive range of support services.
How long have you been on Twitter?
Approximately 1 month, early days I guess.
How many people follow you?
39
How many people do you follow?
84
What made you sign up to Twitter?
I attended a workshop by Anna Farmery of [...]

Share files via Twitter

It was a brief email:
File Tweet Brings the much needed File Sharing On Twitter. Sit Back , Specify the file you want to share & the tweet you want to accompany with it. Rest is on Auto-Pilot.
Website Url : www.filetwt.com
Do Give me a review
There’s not much more info on the site, but I [...]

Twitter interview with VirtuallySorted.com

An quick interview with Virtually Sorted, a site providing accounting news, information, tips, tools, resources and insight–everything you need to help you prosper and enjoy the accounting profession even more!
How long have you been on Twitter?
Since October 2008.
How many people follow you?
Currently 367.
How many people do you follow?
We were using automatic following software www.twollow.com and [...]

Web App: TweetBrain

TweetBrain is a crowdsourcing web application for the Twitter community.

Features:

• sign in using Twitter credentials
• post questions with optional reward, deadline and topic category
• ability to mark questions as favorite
• RSS feed for all questions posted
• “hotlist” feature showing top topics, questions and rewards as well as top questioners and “answerers”
• user configurable settings for auto-following and visibility
• search feature

The Good:

TweetBrain is a great crowdsourcing tool for Twitter. You could post your questions directly to Twitter, but with TweetBrain your question will almost certainly be looked at by more people than already follow you (unless you are @cnn). The tool is easy to use and generates some interesting feedback. Every question you ask is posted as a tweet. It is also possible that TweetBrain could help you get more followers, given its “viral” potential.

The Not-so-Good:

So far, we like TweetBrain quite a bit. Some may have concerns about the sign-in procedure with full Twitter credentials, but that issue is addressed in the FAQ: OAuth will be used when it is ready. We’re not too sure about the reward feature. TweetBrain uses PayPal to facilitate payment of the (often nominal) reward that any user can assign to their question. That feature may not appeal to some users, but the good news is that it isn’t mandatory.

Tweetwave.com Rates it: ★★★★

Web App: tweetzi

tweetzi is a web app that allows users to perform searches on Twitter.

Features:

• easy-to-use web UI
• displays Twitter trends
• refine searches with up to six parameters

The Good:

tweetzi  is a very easy-to-use and capable Twitter search tool. We liked the ability to refine searches using parameters such as “links related to” the search term or “asking about” the search term. Daily Twitter trends are displayed so you can hit those as well, if you wish. One other good feature of tweetzi is the ability to turn on a real-time results stream. This is great for keeping up to date on important trends or topics.

The Not-so-Good:

There wasn’t much we didn’t like about tweetzi. The Help feature is very “helpful”. If we have to choose something to find fault with (and we do), all we can really say is that the appearance of tweetzi is a little bit on the “industrial” side. That is merely a superficial complaint about style. The functionality is very good indeed.

Tweetwave.com rates it: ★★★

Web App: Visible Tweets

Visible Tweets is a web app that allows users to view a stream of tweets on any search topic in a unique visual display.

Features:

• simple web UI
• colorful, cascading display of tweets
• search on any term(s)

The Good:

Visible Tweets is an interesting way to display a stream of tweets on any given topic. Tweets are displayed one at a time on a colorful background, with one tweet cascading/rolling into the next.

The Not-so-Good:

The visual display of Visible Tweets is rather appealing, and we liked it a lot. While Visible Tweets can search on any term or trend, it is not a hard-core search tool. It doesn’t pretend to be, which works out just fine.

Tweetwave.com Rates It: ★★★

Web App: Twazzup

Twazzup is a web app that allows users to perform searches on Twitter.

Features:

• easy to use web UI
• trending topics displayed
• save searches
• search results (tweets) displayed in real time
• popular related links displayed

The Good:

Twazzup is a very good search tool for Twitter. The ability to display resulting tweets in a real-time stream is a fantastic feature. We liked the related links feature, and the ability to sort results by retweets and tweets is also a powerful feature.

The Not-so-Good:

Twazzup is a very good tool. Our only complaint, and it isn’t a big one, is that sometimes it almost seems like there is too much information crammed into the display page. It’s all good information, but there’s a lot of it.

Tweetwave.com Rates It: ★★★★

Web App: TwitIQ

TwitIQ is a web app that allows users to use multiple Twitter accounts.

Features:

• UI similar to Twitter.com
• all Twitter operations supported
• multiple Twitter accounts supported
• advanced search feature
• keyword and trending topic features

The Good:

TwitIQ is a good Twitter client, some say it it Twitter.com “plus”. It has all the functionality of Twitter with the added benefit of multiple account support. The advanced search and keyword features are pretty handy as well.

The Not-so-Good:

While TwitIQ is certainly a very serviceable Twitter client, complete with URL shortening and saved searches, there are a few things that would be nice to see added at some point in the future. There is no support for photo posting and TwitIQ is unable to display inline videos and photos like PowerTwitter does. These aren’t huge issues, but rather bell and whistles we would like to see.

Tweetwave.com Rates It: ★★★

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