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Flixup: Movie rating service based on Twitter Conversation

Ahmad Bilal — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 13:03:22 +0000

If you are used to checking for scores and reviews of movies before planning your weekend movie night. Flixup can help you choose the recent popular flicks.

flixup is a new service that tracks Twitter conversations to show the most popular movies. After analyzing the Twitter conversations and status update it creates a quality score and rank of the most discussed movies on Twitter.

It also allows users to vote to improve the system, showing the details of the film, with trailer and summary of every movie.Currently the movie ratings is entirely based on Twitter conversations but the developers have plan to stream data from Facebook, MySpace, and other social platforms.

Update your Twitter profile picture using your webcam

Ahmad Bilal — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:47:21 +0000

For those who like to change Twitter avatar daily, today I bring a tool that I’m sure they’ll love. Snapatar is a free online application with which you can quickly change your picture on Twitter in just two steps. The use of this application is very simple.

Ye just have to open the website, get in front of the webcam and press the button “SNAP”. Immediately you will have the image ready to send to Twitter. Enter your username and password for Twitter and press the button “SEND TO TWITTER. You can do this as often as you like.

Snapatar is undoubtedly the fastest and easiest way to update your avatar on Twitter. It’s probably the easiest way to get rid of that horrible default image.

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FriendorFollow: Know who’s not following you back

Ahmad Bilal — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 08:26:45 +0000

If you follow some people on Twitter but do not know if they actually follow you or let you follow, there is a tool that helps you find out … It’s called FriendorFollow and is simple to use.

Luckily there is not much to explain about the usage of this application as it is actually very easy to use. You just have to enter your Twitter username and click the submit button.

After a sometime, depending on the number of users you follow, you will get a list of those who do not following you back and list of your followers, you’re not following back.

Ad.ly Analytics: Learn more about your Followers on Twitter

Ahmad Bilal — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:59:09 +0000

Ad.ly analytics is a free online tool with which you can obtain information from you Twitter followers.

To use this application you should log in using your Twitter username and password and wait for the system to analyze the information of your “followers”.

After a few seconds, the time depends on the amount of followers you have Ad.ly Analytics shows a series of graphs where you can see how many of your fans are real people and how many are automated systems, the percentage of men and women and in which countries they are located.

You can also see which of your fans are the most influential and a chart showing the amount of messages send, the reply and retweets.

Ad.ly Analytics currently has two versions, one free, with the features I mentioned earlier and another with $ 9.99 fee monthly which has some additional features like detailed reporting by location, a chart with the followers who interact with us more, a list with the 20 most influential supporters and a report with the positive, negative or neutral perception about your tweets.

It can be a great tool for companies to know a little more about the people who follow them on Twitter.

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Create Reminders and Receive them by Twitter, Email or SMS

Ahmad Bilal — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:13:53 +0000

Remindr is a simple but useful online application with which you can set reminders and receive them in your Twitter account.

The use of this tool is simple you first have to enter the title of the reminder, the date and time and latter choose whether you want to receive the alert on your Twitter account, through email, via IM (Jabber and Gtalk) or SMS.

Remindr is an excellent online application to remember birthdays, anniversaries, appointments, work, exams, deadlines and bills etc. Worth a try.

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Do you know what was Most Talked About on Twitter in 2009?

Ahmad Bilal — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:38:49 +0000

Twitter has also published the hottest trends of year 2009. It’s great to see what people most talked about or social network and microblogging platform in the year 2009. Twitter has gained tremendous growth in the 2009.

In 2009, Twitter’s Trending Topics helped us understand what was happening around the world showing us that people everywhere can be united in concern around important events; excited about a new movie; or geek-out about a major new technology.

News Events
1. #iranelection
2. Swine Flu
3. Gaza
4. Iran
5. Tehran
6. #swineflu
7. AIG
8. #uksnow
9. Earth Hour
10. #inaug09

People
1. Michael Jackson
2. Susan Boyle
3. Adam Lambert
4. Kobe (Bryant)
5. Chris Brown
6. Chuck Norris
7. Joe Wilson
8. Tiger Woods
9. Christian Bale
10. A-Rod (Alex Rodriguez)

Movies
1. Harry Potter
2. New Moon
3. District 9
4. Paranormal Activity
5. Star Trek
6. True Blood
7. Transformers 2
8. Watchmen
9. Slumdog Millionaire
10. G.I. Joe

TV Shows
1. American Idol
2. Glee
3. Teen Choice Awards
4. SNL (Saturday Night Live)
5. Dollhouse
6. Grey’s Anatomy
7. VMAS (Video Music Awards)
8. #bsg (Battlestar Galatica)
9. BET Awards
10. Lost

Sports (Teams, Events, Leagues)
1. Super Bowl
2. Lakers
3. Wimbledon
4. Cavs (Cleveland Cavaliers)
5. Superbowl
6. Chelsea
7. NFL
8. UFC 100
9. Yankees
10. Liverpool

Technology
1. Google Wave
2. Snow Leopard
3. Tweetdeck
4. Windows 7
5. CES
6. Palm Pre
7. Google Latitude
8. #E3
9. #amazonfail
10. Macworld

Hash Tags
1. #musicmonday
2. #iranelection
3. #sxsw
4. #swineflu
5. #nevertrust
6. #mm
7. #rememberwhen
8. #3drunkwords
9. #unacceptable
10. #iwish

[Via | Twitter Blog]

Create a PDF eBook of all your Twitter Messages

Ahmad Bilal — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 07:04:22 +0000

The truth is amazing so many applications that are created daily, based on Twitter, the popular microblogging system.

Here is one more Twitter application Tweetbook, it allows you to create a PDF file of tweets (messages) that you have published on your Twitter account.

Like many other application it also connect to your account using your Twitter login. Once you log in you can select if you want to include the answers to your messages and bookmarks, Click “Generate PDF”.
After some minutes depending on the number of Tweets that you have published, you can download the PDF file with all your Tweets.

I tested this tool and it works very well indeed but so far. I think this can be a good way to make a copy of your Twitter messages.

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Chirps: Record Audios and Share on Twitter

Ahmad Bilal — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 06:50:55 +0000

More and more things we can share through Twitter. Initially, the popular microblogging service was created to share with others what we were doing at any given time, but today thanks to external applications now you can share files, videos and photos etc.

Today I bring an application that also allows you to share audio files on Twitter. Chirps, this is a free online tool with which you can record any sound voice, music etc and share through Twitter account.

Its use by others is simple, just record your audio, add a message and finally press the button “Tweet your audio now”. It also allows to upload audio files we have on our PC to share with Twitter followers.

Chirps works really well, it is simple and very easy to use. It would be very good if it allows to send private audio messages.

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Themeleon, A Tool to Customize your Twitter Profile Background

Ahmad Bilal — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:12:04 +0000

There are several tools to customize your Twitter profile, Themeleon is also one of them. It basically offers to customize your Twitter Profile background. This tool shows you live changes while you select different options from a full gallery for your Twitter Profile background.

Themeleon allows to change your background in the microblogging service with just three clicks. First one is to join Twitter, second is to select the background options from the gallery and the third is to save the changes, after that you will see your updated profile.

Those who want a little more, they can take pain to select some additional details such as the color of the right sidebar, and also customize the already available templates.

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ReFollow is a Real Good Solution to Manage your Twitter Profile

Ahmad Bilal — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:39:53 +0000

Although Twitter has greatly improved its interface to facilitate the users but, administration of “following ” and “followers“ still require lots of improvement. So as the user grows in your Twitter profile it became more and more complex to manage them.

ReFollow is a real good solution to manage your Twitter profile. This services access Twitter account via OAuth, and shows us very quickly all Twitter users that relate to us, whether “following ” and “followers“, to manage them easily.

ReFollow Features:

Begin to follow entire groups of your followers.
See quick details of all your followers and following.
Sort your contacts based on over 30 different criteria.
Lock and unlock people.
Begin to follow people who follow you and that you find interesting.

ReFollow is collection of most useful options in a very fast interface and helps us better manage our Twitter contacts.

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