Managing New Twitter Followers
Author: Matthew Bibby | Filed under: General Ramblings, Promotion, twitter, web 2.0I realized today that I have been recommending Topify to a number of my friends on twitter as it is a great way to manage new followers. Have you ever spent hours at a time checking every new followers profile? Or worse, made the same mistake that I did by setting up an auto-follow rule and receiving silly amounts of direct message spam.
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!
April 26th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
Love this! Hope I did what I needed 2 to implement it. Thx for the read and info.
April 26th, 2009 at 10:00 pm
Hi Robin,
Thanks for commenting!
I am sure you got it right – all you need to do is complete the registration process with Topify and then change the email address in your twitter page to the one provided.
All direct message notifications will now also include the option to reply via email.
I have just followed you now so keep an eye out for the Topify notification.
Matt.
April 27th, 2009 at 3:59 am
Thank you for the awesome review !
April 27th, 2009 at 4:10 am
Thanks for the post. following @topify now and will try it out. Cool recommendation and yeah thanks for including me in your example. Rock on! = )
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April 27th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
Thanks Arik – glad you liked it!
April 27th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
Pleasure Misty – thanks for being so awesome!
May 3rd, 2009 at 2:55 pm
You know I looked at Topify and then balked at putting their email address in my Twitter Account. That just kind of bugs me. Maybe I’ll give it a second look. Thanks for the heads up.
Really great comparisons for deciding who to follow by the way!
May 6th, 2009 at 3:07 pm
Thanks Janet! I considered the email address in Twitter Account and after speaking with some friends about the concept decided to give it a go. I do not regret doing so, it has greatly improved my twitter experience.
Let me know what you end up deciding . . .
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May 7th, 2009 at 12:07 am
Thanks for the heads-up about Topify. I didn’t think there were any new 3rd-party Twitter tools left to discover!