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Wanna know more about your twitter followers?

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You know there are tons of apps to make it easier for you tweet and know what your ‘friends’ and influencers are doing or saying on twitter but If you ever wanted to know little more about the people who are listening to what you are tweeting about, there is this neat little service called TwitterSheep where you put in your tweet id and it goes through your followers’ profile information to spit out a tag cloud that gives you some idea of what they are all about.  This may not be an exact and probably changes on a daily basis as your stats change based on who leaves your network and who joined.  But still, it was fun to see it.    I was kinda glad to see my followers are in the areas of my interests, social media, entrepreneurship, marketing and of course blogging. 

 

How about your followers?   The site doesn’t require your twitter password so you can be sure it’s safe! 

Pearl's TwitterSheep

 

 

 

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This is really good. Lately, I have been getting some new followers as a third party social bookmarking website signed me up for twitter. I had no idea bout twitter, but it has become HUGE. I would love to find out more about my followers because this is good for marketing purposes :)

Samir

Interesting find, Pearl. It actually fits in very well with some things I’ve been researching recently.

I’ve been reading up on intelligent online technologies that sort through all the text information and do automated categorization and such. Very fascinating subject, and can provide soem great services without too much human intervention.

TwitterSheep does just that. Right now to keep it practical it would seem they base their results only on the Twitter bios, but we all know people’s Twitter bios are not always a serious reflection of their interests. It would be inetresting to see a service like this expanded to actually studying the person’s last x-number of tweets, or seeing where their website link leads etc. I doubt anyone would release such a public service due to the sheer amount of processing power that it would require, but an intriguing possibility anyway.

Samir

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Adam

Sweet. The most dominant words on mine were marketing, Online,Internet, Twitter,web, social, entrepreneur,and business.

The apps for Twitter just never cease to amaze. Twoof Games being the most recent site…you can play games and share your scores with your Twitter crew…of course if you are a lousy gamer like me, your friends will not find it very competitive. I can see sites like this appealing to kids like my son though. Pulling in the youngsters is what its all about…more eyeballs for Twitter.

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Andrew

Like the rest of you, I also have a twitter account and a dozen (or more) of my followers I do not even know. That is why twitter sheep will make me more at peace because I can check who they are and I can check common interests that we have.

pearl

@Samir: TwitScoop does crawl people’s tweets to build a cloud of hot topics being discussed and it is also updated real time.

@Adam: I didn’t know about Twoof Games yet, but that may also be because of my lack of interest in games but you are right, twitter’s momentum doesn’t seem to be slowing down at all..

@Andrew: like Samir said, I don’t think its a sure shot way to find common interests among your followers but it can give a good enough picture of what they’ve put in their profiles, which made me think to change my own profile to reflect some of my interests.

Jessica

I just joined twitter a few days ago so I am only just starting to understand how it all works and what other apps you can use with it. Thanks for pointing this one out. Jessica.

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RennyBA

Very interesting – thanks for the tip and I was kind of happy with the result too. I even posted it on my FB account ;-)
Yea; I know my Twitter goes there directly through my FriendFeed, but it was fun anyway.

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GregR

I noticed this big weakness with twitter as it is. You have no way of knowing what other peoples interests are. So what I do is just add people until I find people of interest. This way you can hone into them.
Thanks for that.

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Pearl

@Jessica: there are lots of fun twitter apps, let us know which one you like the best

@RennyBA: I’ll have to check out of your facebook page, I haven’t been spending as much time on it as I would like

@GregR: I wish there was a better way to find more about them too but with limited number of hours in the day and with so many social networks out there, it’s just not feasible to get to know everyone’s ‘interests’ but based on their profile, this is a good one for the time being I say :) thanks for stopping by

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Stu

Hey that is really cool!

Mine were a bit like Adams – all internet marketing stuff.