Jarid's Log

Top 25 Twitter Lists and more

2010-02-05T23:23:00.000-06:00

Our monthly update of the top 25 lists by followers and favorite lists on Twitter. Updated 2/05.

Favorites
Autism Community by Jarid Brown
The Hope Institute Family by Jarid Brown
Chicago Follow Back by JobsforChicago
Charity by Christy Bella Joiner

75,645 - Twitter Team by Twitter

25,683 followers - TopBrasil-helphaiti by Rafael C. Define

6,388 followers - Mashable by Pete Cashmore

5,405 followers - Haiti by CNN Breaking News

4,933 followers - Most Influential In Tech by Robert Scoble

4,178 followers - Tech News Brands by Robert Scoble

3,585 followers - Social Media by Pete Cashmore

2,807 followers - Design Links by Roger Byrne

2,535 followers - Tech News People by Robert Scoble

2,252 followers - Top 50 Funny by Favstar.fm

2,229 followers - Best of Photography by Michael Zhang

2,105 followers - Haiti by TIME.com

2,092 followers - Founders by Robert Scoble

1,916 followers - Creatives To Watch by Behance

1,869 followers - Linkers by Patrick LaForge

1,861 followers - Haiti Earthquake by The New York Times

1,819 followers - venture_capitalists by Robert Scoble

1,805 followers - Marketing by Pete Cashmore

1,720 followers - Top Web Designers by carsonified

1,621 followers - Media by Pete Cashmore

1,594 followers - Staff by The New York Times

1,566 followers - Weapons for Entrepreneurs by Robert Scoble

1,510 followers - Top 500 Follow All Back by Anthony Stevens

1,445 followers - Iphone by Robert Scoble

1,404 followers - Tech by Pete Cashmore

10 Ways to search Twitter and identify trends

2009-12-31T06:21:00.001-06:00

Whether you an organization monitoring the internet to identify positive and negative feedback about your service, a marketer seeking to better identify keywords and targetted trends, or an individual seeking interesting content, finding an effective or fun-based Twitter search agent is essential. Naturally, Twitter offers an inhouse search engine, but users may find another search service that they simply like better or provides more relevant search results. In order to assist you, I have added 10 Twitter search sites for you to explore.

Twitter Search

Twitter's in-house search engine. A great resource, but often underutilized outside of the marketing community.

Twitscoop

A Twitter interface that allows you to receive & send tweets, find new friends without ever reloading your page, preview twitpics, and has a search interface that: allows saved searches, background searches through a multi-tab system, provide a trend cloud on the interface and search graphs.

Tweetmeme

The home of the famous Retweet Buttong tracks and compiles the latest Stories on Twitter; allowing you to break down trends, latest tweets by category and search keywords.

Trendistic (by Flaptor)

A keyword and trend based search tool that breaks down tweets by day.

Tweet Scan

Search by keywords and users. Also provides a paid service that allows email alerts of searches, tracking and time-based searches.

Twitterment

Search Twitter users, keywords and topics.

Twitturly

Find out the most talked about stories on Twitter, tracked and ranked.

Twistori - Fun Engine

Provides a running feed of how Twitter users feel. What they love, hate, think, believe, etc...

GoodBadMe - Fun Engine

A community based engine tracking good and bad deeds through hashtags.

Favotter

A specialty engine that tracks favorite tweets allowing you to track favorite trends and search by user.

5 Twitter directories for organizations and individuals

2009-12-30T05:32:00.002-06:00

A listing of 5 Twitter directories that every organization should utilize to help expand reach.

Twellow

A Twitter directory sorted by occupation. Users can edit a comprehensive profile including extended bio and links to other social networking profiles.

My Twellow Profile

Just Tweet It

A categorized Twitter directory utilizing a wordpress platform. Easy to use and allows short description with html.

One of my listings

Twubble

A twitter tool that finds people who are compatible with your profile and recommends new people to follow.

Twitdir

Search for words in usernames, locations or descriptions. Make sure to add your username.

My profile on Twitdir

Wefollow

A directory allowing users to search via categories or tags that you define when adding profile.

One of my listings on WeFollow

Easy Add - Facebook Share and ReTweet Button To Blogger

2009-11-20T10:58:00.006-06:00

To add Facebook Share and ReTweet buttons to your blogger blog. Follow the steps below.

1. Open up your blog dashboard and click on layout
2. Click on Edit Template and check the expand widgets box
3. Find the <div class=’post-header-line-1′/>
4. Insert the following code below the line of code.

For Small Icons

<span id='tweetmeme-blogger-gadget' style='float: right; margin: 5px; vertical-align: middle; background: transparent;'><script type='text/javascript'>tweetmeme_url = '<data:post.url/>';tweetmeme_style = 'compact';tweetmeme_source = 'advancinghope';tweetmeme_service = 'bit.ly';</script><script src='http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js' type='text/javascript'/></span><span style='float: right; margin: 5px; vertical-align: middle; background: transparent;'><a href='http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php' name='fb_share' type='button'>Share</a><script src='http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/connect.php/js/FB.Share' type='text/javascript'/></span>

For Buttons with Icons

<span id="tweetmeme-blogger-gadget" style="float: right; margin: 5px; vertical-align: middle; background: transparent;"><script type="text/javascript">tweetmeme_url = '<data:post.url/>';tweetmeme_service = 'bit.ly';</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js"></script></span><span style='float: right; margin: 5px; vertical-align: middle; background: transparent;'><a name="fb_share" type="box_count" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php">Share</a><script src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/connect.php/js/FB.Share" type="text/javascript"></script></span>

Final Step - Important
Change the tweetme source= from advancinghope to your Twitter ID

For more information on how to install Facebook and Twitter buttons visit:
Facebook Share or Tweetmeme for Blogger