The last few days I have been working on a couple new features, while also maintaining a strong focus on existing processes enhancements. While many of the new items coming down the pipe are relativly simple, I can not downplay the value of both the visibility and the availability of this information.
I wanted to give you a sneak peak at one of these new features, something that I am calling Twak Alerts. Twak Alerts are very much like Google Alerts, emails automatically sent to you when there are new results for your keyword terms, but just for tweets!
Just like Google Alerts, you create unique twitter tweet keyword alerts against the public timeline. Based on your selected delivery method and frequency TweepleTwak will shoot you a gracious email alert letting you know whats going down in the Twittersphere.
Sometimes innovation comes directly from those super simple little nuggets that add so much value you cant believe it wasnt there before. I hope you, like I, find this to be one of those little nuggets! And, cant wait to unleash a few more from my mind for everyone to enjoy!
This morning @Stoweboyd tweeted the following asking if there was a tool to see if someone is following you:
I quickly replied that indeed there is and its right here in Tweeple Twak!
You can easily access this feature within our Dashboard Reports Tab:
This is also built right into the Follower/Following info views to give you a quick view of the friendship.
Why is this so important?
Often times knowing if someone is following you can only be acomplished by sending them a Direct Message (DM) on twitter. This can also sometimes become frustrating and embarrassing when trying to DM a fellow Twitter users who was previously following you. The result, if they are not following you, is often times pure rejection.
To help in this situation we’ve created a simple ‘Friendship Test’ to take out the guess work in your Twitter friendship status. You can query a Friendship Test directly from the dashboard if you know the Twitter users screenname or throughout the various sections of TweepleTwak.com.
Well, maybe one day Kevin Rose will follow me :-)
Yesterday Tweeple Twak was featured on Mashable.com!
What is Mashable?
With more than 5 million monthly pageviews, Mashable is the world’s largest blog focused exclusively on social networks. Mashable will put your brand in front of the most tech-savvy early adopters, venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, influencers, Web 2.0 aficionados and technology journalists. Mashable is also popular with bloggers and members of social networking sites - an increasingly influential demographic.
What an honor!
I feel extremely proud, after 11yrs of entrepreneurial development (and professional) to have my fellow interwebrs buzzing on one of my projects! Oh, and the servers made it! Shheewww! :-)
I am also really enjoying all the great first impression feedback from everyone! Later today I’ll be updating this blog post with a few hand picked tweets I want to share. If you’re curious to see what others are saying, just click here.
I know the Private Alpha is a bummer, but I wouldnt want to turn you loose on something thats buggy. Im sure everyone understands! As of current, existing Alpha Users can NOT invite others. Once it moves out of *buggy* Alpha, I’ll be releasing details of the invite process.
The Mashable Article is also on DIGG.com, so DIGG it up please, kthnks.
In the social economy, relationships are the new currency. This is about creating and cultivating relationships with people, online and in the real world, and these relationships are defined by mutual value and benefits.
As Tweeple Twak evolves we have slightly been refining our initial focus, which was user disengagement, to that which will better help your relationship cultivation. One might view these as similar, if not the same, but I feel these statements will help distract those who seem to focus on unfollow notifications.
Lets face it, the conversations and relationships on twitter (and beyond) can impact and influence your business and brand.
Tweeple Twak is here to help.
It is certainly interesting to read and get feedback on TweepleTwak.com! First, let me introduce this post as a followup to the ‘Some Just Get It’ post. Like it or not, the service we are providing is of value. A value which I think the haters are going to quickly see is much more than what they are blindly hating on.
In this post, I’ll share some of my recent favorite examples.
Shiny Shiny, which I have never heard of by the way, recently posted a blog writeup with their take on TweepleTwak (without access to the site) entitled ‘Feel insecure? Inadequate? Quantify it with Tweeple Twak for Twitter!’:
The tweet was fun and their blog post was less than mature, but all in good blogosphere fun, right? Glad they enjoy and embrace the branding :-)
Is TweepleTwak really promoting neurosis and/or neurotic behavior? I didnt think so.. Its nothing about anxiety and emotional distress over lost followers but more a tool for maintaining your personal brand. Sure you can freak out that you lost a few followers, but thats not the point. - Feel free to freak out btw.
Adjust your mindset. Think more Analytics :-)
<3 @SIGEPJEDI
follow us on twitter: http://twitter.com/TweepleTwak
After stumbling across the ‘Vote for Your Favorite Web Framework’ post I thought I would drop a TweepleTwak blog post on what we are using.
- Adobe Coldfusion 8
- Fusebox 5.5.1
- Sun MySQL 5.x
- Prototype 1.6.0.2
- GoGrid Cloud Computing
- Twitter
- Google
As we are currently still in Alpha stages this list may fluxuate as needs change, less any minor adjustments or additions, and will be our core environment.
JOSH
Today I came across Mike Fruchter’s blog post titled: Fake following in social media: Yay or Nay? - which he gives TweepleTwak.com a kind mention. His post summed up nicely both the debate as well as the initial spark which led to the creation of Tweeple Twak.
Had I got an unfollow notification, I could of used this as feedback to increase the quality of my postings and learn what caused that individual to unfollow me. Then there are the people who play the numbers game. Their goal is to have the following/follower field even on both sides. Notifications would serve for them as an instant friends list degreaser.
As you can see below, Tweeple Twak is spot-on with Mike’s vision:
The above screenshot shows someone I personally lost yesterday. While My feelings are far from hurt, I am now at ease with the visibility TweepleTwak provides to this numerical decrease in my followers
Today @SarahinTampa kicked off the excitement with her blog post: Tweeple Twak (The Twitter App I’ve Been Dying To Show You). As you can imagine this sparked a flurry of Tweets about TweepleTwak, and honestly I was surprised at the excitement.
Its refreshing to see that just from the introduction page users get the service, and can already visualize its power. Thats a good sign! shhhew!
For all of you awaiting your Invites, they’re coming!
Today the news came as a surpise that the secret Project TweepleTwak.com had been sighted online as @sarahintampa sent me a DM. TweetCrunch, which supplys twitter app related news, picked up on this from who knows where…….
Have you ever wondered who un-followed you on Twitter, no me neither but if you have, a new service currently in private alpha called TweepleTwak will let you wonder no more. TweepleTwak lets you keep an eye on your Twitter followers and monitor trends in friend gains and declines across Twitter.
Since we’ve been flying under the radar approaching a public alpha, I can only speculate how the site/service has been discovered. BUT, I suppose it comes at a great time since today was my last after tendering My resignation at current employer.
- I can has funding :-)
For those clammering over the TweetCrunch posting, signup for the Private Alpha and we’ll hook you up shortly! You can also follow us on Twitter: @tweepletwak
The initial concept of TweepleTwak.com is very much still at the core of the sites features and functionality, but the box has been opened and ‘new features’ are creeping into the Alpha Version.
Approximately 17hrs have been invested into the current state of the Alpha Version, with base goal features implemented successfully. Now comes the challenge of drawing the line in the sand to mark this version for release.
The concern is simple: Should additional features be included in the site before its opened up for beta testing?
I think with or without these additional features if people ‘get it’ then they ‘get it’ - 3 or 4 additional features are NOT going to overcome individual users inability to understand what is going on here and why it is important. Granted, some of the additions would make for small clarity in this but is it worth increasing the development hours spent to get this site into the public eye?
