This experience prompted me to find the easiest way of checking out my new followers and easily return the follow (i.e. without logging into twitter).  I have been using Topify for the last week and cannot stop raving about this service! Here is why . . .

Get a New Follower and Topify will notify you via email.  For example:



Now no offense meant for this David character, but I love twitter for the conversation so can tell at a glance that I will not be following this person by the Mr Tweet stats: 1% Conversation.  If I did decide to follow David all that I would need to do is reply to the email . . . pretty easy.

Another example, I have been following the wonderful @mistygirlph for a while and when she began following me I received the following message via Topify:



You can see the difference, 87% Conversation, 45% Links & 30 Mr Tweet Recommendations. As I am already following her updates Topify gives me the option of sending her a direct message via reply email . . . which is also an option when you receive a confirmation message from Topify saying that your follow request was processed:





Topify is currently in beta, however you can grab an invitation code here, or follow @topify and request an invite!

If you would like to learn a bit more about Topify, take a look at their You Tube video:

If you enjoyed this post, you may also like to read about my experience with twitter spam and learn about how to opt out of recieving automatic direct messages.

If you enjoy following me on twitter, please drop me a Mr Tweet recommendation - Thanks!

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How did this happen?

Well, I have been very busy recently and hadn’t been keeping up with new followers on twitter, I had 100+ emails from twitter inviting me to check new followers profiles and I felt bad about having not done so.

I mean these are real people who have found value I what I have to say and have chosen to follow my updates, the least I could do is take a peek at their profile.

I then decided that rather than going through the 100 emails that I would just  follow everyone who has followed me recently, automatically.  A bad decision, I advise that you don’t do this!

I was surprised that nearly a quarter of my new follows were people who used automated services to broadcast utter rubbish.

So after unfollowing everyone who sent me a direct messages I did a little bit of research about how to automatically block DMs, here is what I ended up doing:

• Follow @OptMeOut
• Await DM advising that @OptMeOut is following you
• Respond to DM to finalize process

Now I will not receive any automated direct messages from TweetLater, for full details on the process click here.

While I am sharing, I also came across Turn This Thing Off! and love the frustrated bird!

If you use automatic DMs . . . can you please tell me why?

If you don’t use automatic DMs . . . how do you feel about them?

Before you go, have a look at how I am now managing new twitter followers and subscribe to my RSS feed.

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I have been a BlackBerry addict for the past two years.  Originally I had my trusty Curve, with a battery that lasted around four days and now the magnificant BlackBerry Bold.

I am also a tad additcted to twitter, the only problem was – up until recently my BlackBerry and twitter were not the best of friends.  All of the twitter applications that I tried were lacking in some way.  Then, I came across dabr . . . hallelujah!!!

dabr has been accurately describe as ‘m.twitter.com on steroids’ – it is the only twitter interface that I have used that does everything!

Have a look . . .

Before we look at the features of dabr, let me highlight the above discussion I had with the developer on twitter.

I was playing with dabr trying to get used to the fact that it didn’t have a character counter and tweeted the following . . .

dabr didn’t ignore me . . . but rather responded with a solution half an hour later!

Very impressed, now I just need to wait for them to add a character count to the RT & direct messages!  Ok, you got me, dabr doesn’t do everything  . . . but it does have Twitpic integration; meaning that you can easily upload a pic from your phone and preview thumbnails of other twitpic posts automatically!

I even love the fact that dabr has an ugly orange theme by default (that is always a good thing right?) . . . however you can change the look if you wish.

Using dabr is very intuitive, there are great navigational controls on each tweet . . .

The navigation of different parts of twitter is also intuitive, with shortcuts included if you have a little tiny itty bity phone . . .

I mean the developer even advertises his competitors on the front page of his site!!!

dabr states that “Your ideas aren’t just welcome, but are the driving force that makes dabr improve and hopefully be your mobile twitter client of choice. So please get in touch ”

I believe they mean it.  What do you think?  Are you going to try dabr right away?

You may also be interested in reading about how I manage new followers on twitter.

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