webrampage

I like to stay on top of things. I wanna know everything I could possibly know about my followers, my tweets, my profile and how its affecting my Twitter account in general. There’s a lot of sites and tools you could use to stay updated, but these are the few that I use on a daily basis.

1. Twitalyzer

Twitalyzer tells you everything that you possibly need to know about your account. I don’t even know where to start. These are seriously detailed analytics for social media experts.

Twitalyzer connects with your account (don’t worry, it’s safe) and then starts analyzing how you and your followers are engaging. It gives you a 30 day average of these following stats: Impact, Engagement, Influence, Clout, Generosity, Velocity, Signal, Klout Score, Retweeted, Retweeting, Retweets, Retweet Ratio, Referenced, Referencing, References, Reference Ratio, Followers, Following, Lists and Updates.

And there’s just way more. It tells you a bit about your tweeting personality, makes recommendations to you, allows you to create goals for yourself, and lets you explore your network with a visual map. Definitely give this tool a shot.

2. ReFollow

I like to keep my timeline as clean and as helpful as possible. That means I’m always following and unfollowing. It sometimes just gets very difficult to keep track of. But, that’s where Refollow comes in. They call it the “Twitter relationship manager.”

I hate following inactive accounts, accounts without a profile picture and accounts that mass follow back. With the help of Refollow I can point out those accounts and easily unfollow them with a few clicks. And what I love most about this tool is the bulk follow or unfollow capability. (Unfollow all of them ungrateful people.)

3. Twitter Counter

Twitter Counter isn’t something that is essential for your Twitter analytics, but its sort of a fun tool to play with. It graphs out your number of followers (or following or tweets or even all) over a period of one week, one month or 3 months. It also predicts the number of followers you would have in X number of days, and sometimes the predictions do come true. Weird.

4. TweetEffect

Ever wondered what kinda tweets are working with your followers? Well TweetEffect will pass that info along to you. It lists all your recent tweets and shows which ones caused you to gain or lose followers.

And before you start using TweetEffect, please do keep in mind that it is still in its beta stages and I am not quite sure how effective this tool is.

5. Twit Cleaner

There’s the user who’s constantly trying to sell something, the user who’s always doing shoutouts, the user who’s tweeting nothing but links, the user who hasn’t posted in ages and the user who hardly interacts. I wanna unfollow all of them! Thank you, Twit Cleaner.

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You’ve got Facebook, you’ve got Twitter, you’ve got Tumblr and you’ve got YouTube. Or maybe even more. So, many links. A total chaos.

Sometimes its important to create a solid web identity. Link down all your accounts so they know its YOU. Well how do we do that? Hmm that’s where Flavors.me comes in handy.

Not only will you be able to list down all your social networking accounts, but you’ll be able to do in an elegant way. Flavors.me allows you to create beautiful sites with no coding hassles. Just a few clicks and uploads, and you’re good to go.

Available services

• Twitter
• Facebook
• Tumblr
• Posterous
• Blogger
• WordPress
• LinkedIn
• GoodReads
• Netflix
• Last.fm
• YouTube
• Flickr
• Foursquare
• Etsy
• Vimeo
• Picasa
• del.icio.us
• RSS
• Typepad
• Soundcloud
• Digg

You’ll be able to add your accounts from those sites, and yes, its quite a large list. And I’m sure the Flavors.me team are working on supporting more sites, so you could get full coverage. But, do keep in mind that free accounts are only allowed upto 4 connections.

Premium Accounts

For only $20/year, you’ll be having access to an extended font collection, beta layouts, a contact form, detailed stats, metadata and unlimited connections. $20 isn’t too much, but I chose not to upgrade for my own page. I just simply didn’t find the need for it.

Free or paid, either way its a great service to give all your accounts a home. Feel free to share your new Flavors.me page with us by posting the link below in the comments section.

I have just noticed that Twitter has started suggesting friends for us. It seems to a be a smart step taken by Twitter to get an active and connected community going on. This tool sure does have a bright future.

But, how relevant are the suggestions? I’m not too sure about that. We’ll have to keep in mind that the suggestions might not be all that helpful in the first few weeks (or even months), but it will surely help us meet with new users.

One user surely had an interesting point:

Wait seriously?!? Twitter is suggesting people for me to follow. Hello this isn’t Facebook! – @AllieGresham

So far I have seen quite a bit of mixed reaction, but I suppose this tool would come handy when making new connections are in need.

Well if you would like to know more about the tool then I suggest you read the official Twitter post from their blog. And I spread how you feel about this down below in the comments.

Update: A lot of users are reporting that they’re not able to view the suggestions on their sidebar or even the suggestions page. Well be patient and eventually all of us will be able to use the tool.