Mr Tweet Is Your Personalized Alexa For Twitter
May 11, 2009 by Gwendolyn Regina T
Few of you might know, but Mr. Tweet has a nationality. Well, not exactly, but one of the founders is a Singaporean! Ming Yeow was one of my colleagues in the NUS Overseas College Programme to Silicon Valley and he is based there now.
If you have trouble deciding who you should follow on Twitter, Mr. Tweet can help you do that. Mr. Tweet is like your own personalized Alexa-like ranking system for Twitter, and more.
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Problem
With more and more people going onto Twitter, it’s harder to decide who to focus your Twitterttention-span on. So many tweets, most of it noise. Who do you follow? Who do you unfollow?
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Idea
A way to easily identify the 20% of the people whom you spend 80% of your attention and time on.
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Solution
Mr. Tweet aims to help you do three things: (1) Get more relevant followers (2) Discover great people to follow (3) Check out your Twitter usage statistics.
Richard Branson is 10th on the list of SGE‘s “Relevant folks to check out”:
Mr. Tweet also shows you useful information like how often the user tweets:
To better understand these statistics, just head to your own profile page and check out what they mean by “Ratio” etc:
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Money
Thus far, Mr. Tweet remains a free service for you and I. One obvious direction Mr. Tweet can take is to go down the freemium route so for power users who need to delve more deeply into the statistics and insights Mr. Tweet offers, you’ll have to pay for it.
They also have a popular blog that has Twitter tips and tricks for you and your brand to succeed and grow on Twitter.
Check out this great interview with Ming Yeow on Twit.tv to find out more about his thoughts on discovery, influence and credibility.
About The Author
Gwendolyn Regina T - Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief
Apart from SGE, Gwen is also a Partner at Thymos Capital, where she focuses on early stage investments in technology firms. She has had two exits out of her investments via the firm, one of which is iHipo. A frequent judge for business competitions both locally and overseas, she graduated from the National University of Singapore. Gwen also spent some time in Silicon Valley and studied in Stanford University under the NUS Overseas College programme. Gwen is a mentor at Spanish incubator Tetuan Valley, Polish incubator Gamma Rebels, the Singapore Ambassador for the Sandbox network and the Singapore curator for StartupDigest. She enjoys languages, travelling, dance and adventure sports. Gwen can be found on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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