You should already be aware that your Twitter account is an open book, out there on the web for all to read. It shouldn’t come as any great surprise, then, that there are a growing number of tools available that others can use to summarize and analyze the information that you produce, compile and distribute. A free service I recently learned of called Foller.Me provides users some very interesting information about any Twitter account they choose to examine.
This information can be helpful as you decide who to follow on Twitter. I looked at what Foller.me had to say about many Westchester, NY Twitter users, including my own accounts, and the information was very enlightening. Foller.me shows what you’ve been Tweeting about through the use of a word cloud, making more frequently used words more prominent.
The @Blythedale account (managed by my wife Connie Cornell) is shown below, and gives a clear picture of how Blythedale Children’s Hospital in Valhalla, NY is using Twitter. The list of Recent Topics includes words such as help, child, Blythedale, school, volunteer, therapy, donated, safe, join and Twitpic, among others. Words used more recently appear closer to the top of the list, and words used more frequently appear larger.
Screenshot of Blythedale Twitter account as viewed by Foller.me
Close-up look at the Blythedale Twitter account through Foller.me
The screenshot above shows a list of @mentions that have been posted by the Blythedale account. @SidewalkAngels has obviously been mentioned many times, and @safekidsusa has also been the subject of multiple @messages. As with the Recent Topics list, more recent mentions show up toward the top of the list.
Foller.me also lists other facts about a Twitter account, including #Hashtags used in Tweets, number of followers and profile information. I suggest you visit Foller.me and give it a try. You might learn something about yourself and the Tweeters around you.
Twitter Professor is not affiliated with Twitter.com. Chris S. Cornell is not actually a professor, but he is helping build local Twitter communities. Follow Chris on Twitter at http://Twitter.com/ContentHarvest. If you have questions or need help with Twitter, give Chris a call at (914) 741-1203. Feel free to add constructive comments, questions or criticisms in the comments section of this blog.
Hey Chris, this is a great article, though you definitely forgot to mention the followers geography section, which points out user’s followers on a Google Map ^_^
Anyways, thanks so much for the article and the shoutout!
Cheers,
~ @kovshenin
Kovshenin –
Glad you liked the article. Thanks for pointing out the geography feature, which I have used and found to be very interesting. Cool application for Twitter.