Twitter
http://www.twitterholic.com/ - who are the big players in Twitter? Shows the top 100 Tweeters by number of followers.
http://twitterbuzz.com/ shows you what people are linking to in their tweets.
http://dossy.org/twitter/karma/ - sorts your followers and those you follow into different groups such as those who follow you but you do not follow back
http://twerpscan.com/ - highlights the people whose followers/followed ratio is out of whack enough that it could indicate a spammer.
http://search.twitter.com allows you to track keywords through Twitter conversations
N.B. Some of these ask for your Twitter password so I recommend that you change your password to a temporary one first and then change it back after running these tools.
There is a book being written on Twitter by Warren Whitlock and Deb Micek - more info here http://www.twitterhandbook.com/
This was exactly the question that I asked when I joined LinkedIn.
My favorite expert on Facebook, Mari Smith will be appearing on my BTR show on Friday October 10th at noon EST. In the meantime I highly recommend subscribing to her Facebook blog
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4 responses so far ↓
1 Dragon Blogger // Oct 1, 2008 at 8:45 pm
I use LinkedIn and get job offers and connections through it regularly. But I don’t get twitter, I have an account, don’t see how it really works and how its useful. I guess you have to know alot of people on twitter for it to be useful.
I don’t really use facebook or myspace either. I use SocialSpark for blog social networking though.
2 Monica from Online savings // Oct 10, 2008 at 9:57 am
I have been using twitter and LinkedIn as a key part of my online networking. Your right in a way, most social networking sites are great if you have alot of friends or followers . Is simply ” A number game” but people build it from scratch and so should you. I’ve seen the essence now with tons of traffic to my blog and site.
3 paul from virtual offices // Oct 14, 2008 at 4:40 am
@ monica, so what will you say your experience with the sites has been for you? any real contacts and networking? I have just created an account on linkedin but I wonder how long it will take me to get as many connections like you.
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