I have been playing with Twitter Lists today, since I was given the privilege today. The first thing I thought was, I would really like to get a list of all my Denver friends. So here you go:
Denver Area People – 500 users
Denver Area People 2 – 500 users
Denver Area People 3 – 288 Users
Denver Area Businesses – 12 users
If you know someone who should be on this list, please tell me and I will add them in. Just contact me on Twitter!
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So, when I built ProbableFollow.com it was perfectly clear to me why I was building it. It seems that maybe I live in my own little bubble where flowers bloom, the sun rises every day, and as I skip and whistle through the forest while all the wonderful animals harmonize with me.
It turns out that my idea has caused some controversy and some very confused tweeple. Some people seem to think that I am making a statement and pushing my non-twitter-purist ideals on them because they have a low follow back probability. Some people seem to think that I am aggrandizing those that follow everyone back, just because I put the 98%+ crowd on the homepage.
So, I will explain what your percentage means, from my point of view:
0% - You never follow anyone - OR - follow so few people relative to those that follow you that it doesn’t even register as a single percent - OR – you are really popular (@aplusk) and there is no way you could ever want to, need to, or think about following all those people back.
1%-10% – There is a good chance you have not discovered TweetDeck, or figured out all the filtering options - OR - You are a person who believes that you should only follow people you know who are good friends. “Following anyone else would cause too much noise” - OR – you are really popular (@aplusk) and there is no way you could ever want to, need to, or think about following all those people back.
11%-35% – You are careful about who you follow and probably often remove people who are too noisy (like @guykawasaki) or who do not contribute anything to your day, knowledge of the world, etc.
36%-60% -You are either careful who you follow and haven’t cleaned up the riff-raff yet - OR – just started using an auto-follow app/site.
61%-80% - I have found that when I was in this percentile, I was following more people than who followed me and was stuck at the following limits that Twitter imposes (they typically allow a 10% difference) - OR – you went on a following rampage, hoping to get more followers.
If you are pushing the following limits and want some more freedom, I suggest using Dossy’s Twitter Karma and unfollowing some people.
81%-95% - You probably have an auto-follow app running on your account, you probably follow people when they talk to you, you know what TweetDeck is and you use it religiously.
96%-99.4% – You find it very important to follow people back and typically stay on top of making sure that everyone who follows is followed back. Probably, you were actually working and got behind on your following, or it is Follow Friday.
99.5%-100% – This is a special place that is hard to stay in. You are religious about following everyone back - OR – you never follow anyone unless they follow you - OR – you stay on top of cleaning house when someone doesn’t return the favor.
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If you don’t like these descriptions or agree with them, please tell me why in the comments below.
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These are all of the features I would like to see in a single twitter app. If there is a twitter app that already has all of these features, then tell me, so I can STFU and get my perfect app. I would love it if this could happen.
Twitter Features
- Following/Unfollowing
- Allow me to follow or unfollow people from the app. I know the API has this feature.
- Search
- Yep, I want to be able to search.
- Yep, I would like the results to be in a time line like my normal feed
- Yep, I would like to have multiple searches
- Nope, you don’t have to keep these running in the background, just run them when I look at them.
- Please try to get all the ones since the last one I looked at, or allow me a limit, or tell me about a limit, of how many you will pull if there are too many since the last time I looked.
- Hashtags
- You’ve got reply functionality, now link the #hashtags to the search page for them.
App Features
- Always on top
- Give me the option. (Thanks pwitter!)
- API limitations awareness
- know your limitations, compensate. If I get 100 tweets per minute, you still don’t need to check every minute, if it means I am going to get 100 error messages from your app. I would rather it be late, than see how your algorithm for pulling tweets is broken. (had problems on twitteriffic once an hour and pwitter 3 times in the first hour I used it)
- Multiple twitter accounts in one feed
- I choose the outline color for each account
- Click the reply button in the feed item and replies from that account
- Reply button functionality
- I know why the @username always goes to the front of the twitter post I am writing, but I would like the option to turn that off. I want the @username to go where my cursor is in the message. Having to copy/paste or write it out myself sucks.
- Retweet option
- I want to be able to 1-click to put a whole tweet in my typing box, with the letters RT and the original twitterer’s name
- Don’t use via, seriously wtf!?
- Mark feed items as read
- Many of the programs out there do this, many don’t (pwitter I’m looking at you)
- Also, when you get more items from my feed, please remember where I was, and leave the last tweet I touched in the active window
- I don’t know about you, but I don’t watch my twitter feed. I take mini vacations from work to check it.
- Idiot Proofing
- I have a feeling most of my request fall under this, but bear with me anyways…
- I always send half a tweet, because my enter button is too close to my quotes button ( ” ), so ctrl + enter option is really nice (thanks pwitter)
- Status Updates
- Update my status on Adium, iChat, etc. Twitteriffic does this with style.
- Would be cool if it would update my status on FaceBook, LinkedIn, etc. too
Display Features
- Timeline
- Pull EVERYTHING since the last feed item I looked at
- For multiple accounts, this means for the last item I looked at for each account, respectively
- Pull items in the order they were tweeted, don’t add a bunch of crap at the bottom. If you pull all the new stuff, you don’t have to worry about making sure I don’t miss something. (Twitteriffic pulls Replies and DMs to the bottom of your feed, why!?)
- Replies
- Make sure that replies to me have a background color that is easy to identify quickly.
- Also, please make sure that it is easy to identify when I have that feed item selected.
- These should NEVER look like all the other feed items, they are special, so make them look that way
- Background options
- Make as many colors as you want for backgrounds, but at least include black (spaz I’m looking at you)
- User Icon on left of twitter post
- Do not wrap the twitter post around the icon, that’s annoying
- Or allow me the option to customize this
Extras
- Image posting to TweetPic (again idiot proofed)
- drag + drop into the tweet window would be amazing, I don’t really like having to use a browse/upload feature
- Tr.im support
- I like tr.im because it is one of the shortest url smashers out there. Also, they are great guys
- Growl support
- It’s great to have this, but please make sure it works. Half the time, the apps I have seen have it, but the notifications never come up.
Bonus Points for Style
- Grouping My users
- Tweetdeck does it, but I don’t like how they do it. It would be better if I didn’t have to employ a monitor-sized window to see all my groups
- Allowing me to group them across multiple accounts = super mega mega bonus points
- Make it free – also see 3rd item in “Plugins” below
- I know this is a hugely tall order for all the features that I am asking. BUT, if you can put ads in every 20-50 feed items you could make good money.
- I understand you have to make money, and rightly so. Putting an ad in for a free item is totally cool with me.
- Now, if you can put in ads based on the content of the tweets around the ads…I might actually click them and not ignore them.
- Plugins
- Make an interface that will allow for plugins. This way you don’t have to write ALL of this code at once, and you can allow 3rd parties to write code for you.
- This will allow anyone to choose their own suite of features and customize your software to them.
- You could charge for plugins.
I will probably think of more things I would love to have, I know I am taking a pie-in-the-sky approach to my feature requests…
Added After publishing
- I would like to be able to ctrl+click or apple+click to open the link without losing the twitter window. So I can open a bunch of links without having to track down my window or have my mouse lose focus on the current window.
- I want to be able to search within my timeline. I am tired of losing quality twitter posts that I want to revisit or retweet.
- Suggestive features to choose a name from people I follow. Could suggest as I type after the @ symbol, or just be a drop down.
- From @xstaticstacey: add the ability to see all replies all the time
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I have been doing quite a bit of marketing via Twitter recently. During this effort, I have noticed a couple of trends in the automatic Direct Messages I am getting when I follow people. (I am assuming that most people have an automatic Direct Message). Some of them I don’t like, some I understand, and some I feel are inappropriate. You make the call, I just listed them in generic groups below.
Excited
- You’re following me? FABULOUS! U Rock! Let the tweets begin.
- Thanks for the follow! You rock
Please check out my Young Internet Entrepreneur blog ******
- You totally ROCK, thanks for the follow! Please @me anytime. Seen ***** yet? How can I help U?
FaceBook
What I don’t understand about this one is, I am following you on Twitter so that I don’t have to find you on FaceBook. Also, facebook (for me) is a site for personal relationships, not business or casual encounters.
- Thx for the follow! Extreme value on new group in facebook ***** check it, and see for yourself
- Thanks for following me! Please feel free to add me on Facebook “***** ******”.
- Hello ****. Great to connect with you. Feel Free to add me on Facebook too: *****
- Thanks for following me *****, let’s also connect on Facebook – ******
- Thanks for the follow, look forward to learning more about you. Lets connect on Facebook *****
Helper
- thank you for following, ☯ I’ll try to find you as many job leads as I can!
- hey thx for following me ****! i use Twitter for both personal and business so feel free to ask anything
- Thanks for following Kona Endurance. We help pro and amateur endurance athletes increase VO2 max and reduce lactic acid.
- Thank you so much for the follow. If there is any way that I can support you, please let me know. I wish you the best.
Genuine Response
- Thank you, great concept! I will do, not sure what to do as the full site isn’t live yet. The beta will be live in March.
- Thank you for following me. I am going to follow you back!
- It’s nice to meet you, *****. Thanks for following.
Multilingual
- Obrigado por me seguir! Thanks for following me! Diga-me como lhe posso ser útil. Let me know how I can help you.
Religious
These are DMs with religious connotation.
- Have A Blessed day.
- Happy New Year, and may you have many more blessed days.
- Thanks for following me *****.May God continue to bless you and your family. *****
- thanks for the follow…blessings.
Sharing
- Nice to Tweet you! Hope I can share with you my world!
- Hello, im looking forward to reading your updates, dont be a stranger!
- Thanks for following… Look forward to Tweeting with you!
- Thanks for following me. look forward to tweeting with you
- Welcome to the stream enjoy our moments in time
- Hi – Thanks for sharing the journey with me! Look forward to tweeting with you soon…
Site Links
I call these spammy, because they are DMs intended to get people to have a second chance to see a site link or URL.
- thanks for following me.Join my unisuccess space for better networking :http://unisuccess-space.ning.com/
- Thanks for following me. Check out www.Soles4Souls.org where we giveaway a pair of shoes every 17 seconds
- Thnx for following! I will follow u 2! BTW I just launched my book! -> http://twitclicks.com/xsfn
- Thank you for following http://www.tweetgiveaway.com. I look forward to your Tweets
- Thanks for following me! Be sure to check out my site http://www.TheGadget411.com and comment a post! IT TAKES ONLY 10
Spammy
These are different than site links, because they usually come with the “get my free gift” message.
- Thanks for following, look forward to getting to know you. Posted some cool gifts for you at http://www.xaviernelson.com
- Thank you for following me! Meanwhile you can watch this free videos about list building @ http://tinyurl.com/8tjmxz
- Hi and Thanks for the follow! Grab Your Free Copy of *The Twitter Report* @ http://www.MLMIsEasyOnline.com
- Here’s my gift to you http://TwitPWR.com/3uP/ Thanks for following me. I look forward to connecting more!
- Hey Twitter friend, thanks for the follow! – The Monetizer’s moneymakers are here: http://themonetizer.blogspot.com
Thanks
- Thanks for following @TopWineNews (Wine Lover). Tell us what you’re drinking tonite and we’ll RT, sharing with the Twibe.
- Thanks for following Twit2Win! Good luck in our Tweetstakes!
- Thanks for following me. I look forward to networking with you in the months ahead. Ask me about SocialTo
Do you have a category that should be added here? How about a classic DM that you have received?
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Maybe tomorrow? #