I like to follow the people who are following me on Twitter. It helps nurture the relationship and makes it easier to have conversations. Unfortunately, a lot of bots were really spoiling everything. I saw someone using TrueTwit to validate followers, so I thought I’d give it a try. I’m pretty happy with it so far. It does have some downsides, but it certainly has helped cut down on the bot spam and I feel better about following people back again.
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Review: Twitalyzer for Twitter statistics
Twitalyzer goes beyond most websites providing statistics on your Twitter usage, displaying 15 key metrics on an easy-to-use dashboard. Other sites which provide Twitter statistics usually focus on followers (and follower growth), updates and followees. While it may be nice to see the growth of your following in a graph, it’s much more useful to know how engaged your audience is and how influential you are. Twitalyzer gives you a snapshot based on the past 7 days of activity, with trending information available for the last 14, 30, 60, and 90 days (and all time). Best of all, it’s free (at least for now).
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Review: Disqus for Blog Comments
Disqus is a comment system for websites & blogs. If you’re using WordPress, it’s a simple as installing a plug-in. I’ve been using Disqus since we moved the blog back from WordPress.com. I prefer it over the default system (and akismet) because it makes it easier for our readers to comment and easier for us to moderate – pretty important features for a commenting system.