Tricklr: Regular tweets,fewer distractions

Tricklr is a great application for those twitter users that want to remain present on their followers' timeline throughout the day. It is basically a scheduling app and lets you schedule tweets so that you don't spam your followers' timeline and even then remain productive on twitter.

The application is quite easy and simple to use. You just need to sign in with twitter and that's it! One doesn't needs to make a separate account for tricklr.

The working interface (above image) is the simplest interface that one can think of. Simply type the tweet in the box and add it to the queue. In the queue,you have the options to move,edit,publish immediately or delete the tweet. The major advantage of the application is that you needn't schedule each and every tweet. The tweets will be posted one after the other in the interval you decide!

By default the time interval between two tweets is 2 hours but you can change the time interval in the settings option. Apart from the time interval,you can also change the time period between which the tweets will be posted.

Overall,the app is just awesome. It is the right app for those who are in a hurry but want to remain effective on twitter. It's simple interface makes it the easiest to operate.

Link: http://tricklrapp.com/

Power of Social Media: A nine-year-old girl's blog goes viral!

There are probably millions of people who are into blogging,Martha Payne is one such girl. However what's unusual about her is that she's just nine-years-old and she has turned up to a unique and interesting way of raising charity! Her blog neverseconds has gone viral in the past few weeks and has got over 6 million hits!

(image courtesy: blog.hellomagazine.com )


She actively blogs and photographs about her school lunch. She has a unique way of describing the food by giving a detailed information about it ranging from food rating to mouthfuls to the price to the number pieces of hair found. 

Her blog has served as a nice forum of debate and discussion,attracting a large number of comments to her posts and eventually drawing up quite a fantastic amount of money for her charity mission. She has raised  stg £80,000 for the charity Mary's Meals Kitchen in Malawi. 

The controversy

The Argyll and Bute Council stopped her from taking photographs of the meals following a newspaper report criticizing the meal arrangement. This was followed by her writing the following post

This morning in maths I got taken out of class by my head teacher and taken to her office. I was told that I could not take any more photos of my school dinners because of a headline in a newspaper today. 

I only write my blog not newspapers and I am sad I am no longer allowed to take photos. I will miss sharing and rating my school dinners and I’ll miss seeing the dinners you send me too. I don’t think I will be able to finish raising enough money for a kitchen for Mary’s Meals either.

Goodbye,
VEG

The post eventually received over 2800 comments,drawing criticism from people and fans all over! 


A large amount of support was seen on twitter too with #neverseconds trending for over 5 hours. Finally the ban was lifted by the council leader Cllr Rody Mcuish. 


Finally she is back to blogging and rating meals in the unique style. This incident clearly exhibits the power and unity of social media and also on it's direct influence over the traditional media. 


Sources:

• http://www.siliconrepublic.com/new-media/item/27810-9-year-old-blogger-sparks-a/
• http://www.business2community.com/blogging/the-power-of-blogging-how-a-9-year-old-girl-became-a-social-media-star-0198932
• http://neverseconds.blogspot.in/2012/06/goodbye.html
• http://neverseconds.blogspot.in/

Unfollow = Manage Flitter

Manage Flitter is an awesome application to unfollow those tweeps who don't follow you back. All you need to do is to connect your twitter account to manage flitter. After loading your statistics,it would categorize people into different groups: not following you back, inactive and people without a display picture. You can go through the desired list and unfollow those people whom you don't want to follow anymore.

Can't follow more than 2001 tweeps?

I have seen many people who can't follow more than 2001 followers. When they try to do so twitter shows an error message. Let me tell you the reason for this.

For the first 2000 follows,twitter doesn't restrict your follow activity. However,when you cross the limit of 2000,twitter brings about a rule,a very simple equation that must be followed.

The equation

Let x=No. of people you follow

y=No. of your followers

equation is => x>=y+10% y

Going by this equation,one must have 1819 followers when they follow the 2001nd tweep. Hence if you are not able to follow 2001+ follow,it is because you have less than 1819 followers. 

Remedy

If you would like to follow new people,you have to unfollow people. I recommend three applications out of which one can be chosen

• Just Unfollow
• Tweepi
• Manage Flitter

All The Best

t.co v/s third party URL shortening services

Twitter's new URL shortening service has made sharing the links an easy affair. You don't need to go to a third party shortening application to shorten your links. This naturally saves time.However I found a shortcoming of this service.

When you shorten a link using t.co,you can't track the clicks.

Tracking the clicks is a healthy habit for every twitter user. It lets you know your true reach (even more than re-tweets). Also, for bloggers it is a necessity to know how many real-time clicks they get for the links the post (this info. is provided by the blogging services like blogger etc.).

The best part of third party shortening services is that they give you a complete history of clicks. Hence,it is quite a useful affair to shorten links using these services. A few of the shortening services are:

• Bit.ly
• goo.gl
• ow.ly
• su.pr
• tinyurl.com (You can add it to browser's tool bar and also use custom alias)

Its good to be consistent with one of these service as you'll readily get a reference and compare which of your links/at which time your link got highest clicks.

All The Best.

5 twitter applications to make it simple

Twitter is one of my favorite social media tool. A place where professionalism meets social networking. The best part of twitter is: it is an open garden. Make your own stuff,do it in your own way,and no one would object. Here are five applications what makes twitter experience a simple but lovely one:

1.Tweetdeck

Tweetdeck finds itself on most of the twitter users'  fav. list. It's efficient layout ensures that you can easily perform all the twitter actions: follow/unfollow,reading tweets,re-tweeting(edited and new one) . Tweetdeck makes it all simple.

2.Tweepi

Tweepi is a great tool to manage twitter account. It comes with geeky follow: which lets you quickly add followers or friends of a particular twitter user. It also gives you option to add your followers back and unfollow the non-followers.

3.Manage Flitter

Manageflitter shows all the people who are not following you back. Select them at once and unfollow. Its simple and easy.

4.Social Oomph 

Social oomph increases your productivity on twitter. It lets you schedule tweets,auto-follow-back twitter users and much more. It comes in a free as well as in a paid version. The latter is useful for those who want to promote their brand etc. on twitter.

5.Dlvr.it  

This is a super cool application for bloggers. Many bloggers write their blog posts at once and then schedule the posts. Once you feed the rss feed of the blog to this application,it directly posts the blog post to your twitter account, minimizing your efforts.

review : echofon for mozilla firefox

I am a third party application freak,at least for twitter applications. This happened due to my interest for the social network and the urge to stay connected almost 24x7. Even though most of my tweet are posted through mobile,even staying connected to twitter when online via PC or laptop is a must.

When online via PC,my first need is to do work smoothly. At one time i simultaneously read news and chat with friends. This is done by changing tabs. However these two things consume a lot of time and i miss out a lot of tweets posted. Here emerges the problem, since I can't miss out any of the three things (many more at some times). I see two possible solution,first, if the every new tweet pops out at the corner of the browser or second,i have a side panel where the tweets appear.

These two conditions are possible with echofon.Echofon is basically an add on for browser so that one doesn't misses the tweets while surfing. This application gives me all the necessary features I require for tweeting. Edited retweets,twitter retweets,reply all,follow,unfollow,making a favourite tweet etc. along with some new and nice features.

Additional Features.
The above mentioned features are provided by almost all the application. One striking feature of echofon is its feature to post links easily. This application directly gives the option to post link of the page you are working on. Moreover it comes with an option of shortening URL with inbuilt bit.ly shortener. This feature is good when one needs to share link to pages that don't gome with tweetbutton feature.

Secondly, the application is light weight and suits muti-tasking without any problem of browser getting hanged. As I mentioned earlier this application gives you the facility to read tweet in different modes. You can switch between panel mode,Window mode and side bar mode.

Thirdly, you don't need to sign in to the application every time you switch on your computer. More over you can manage multiple twitter accounts quite brilliantly.
Final Review
Echofon is a light weigh application that can well adopt to your multi tasking routine,providing you some new and additional features. Try it once and it won't disappoint you.
here is the link to echofon : http://www.echofon.com/twitter/firefox