If you have more than 100 followers, or people following you on Twitter and want to have some kind of Outlook like manager for managing so much info- this is a great tool from www.refollow.com
Added benefits-
1) Secure Login using Twitter Authorization
2) Visual Click and Easy Follow- Unfollow Blocking based on activities
3) Segmenting groups of people basede on behavior
4) Hidden insights on who all suddenly have un-followed me ( after I accidentally revealed the spoiler end of latest Harry Potter movie- Dumbeldore will sleep with the fishes)
The Screenshot (of my refollow page) below shows you most of the properties-
Here is one of the new startups in India. A batch mate from B school whom I owe too many beers, and too few
calculus notes —–well he asked me to help him vote. Treat this as shameless self promotion just like http://www.cerebralmastication.com/ ‘s moustache and R rated R stats profanity on #rstats in twitter
Everytime I post to the R help list, if the email contains the three words S.- A – S , I get plenty of e-spanking from senior professors and distinguished Linux people. On the other hand when I mentioned W-P-S I got dunked by the Don of SAS Global himself. We geeks are so passionate.
Here is some new stuff on Twitter for the R /Open Source community.
1) I manually made a list of
best R blogs,
R help lists ( on Nabble since Google Groups banned R help archive),
Twitter Search for #rstats ( general search word for R)
I then copied the RSS feeds of each of the above.
2) I then went to www.twitterfeed.com (uses open Id) and linked a new Twitter Account to these RSS feeds
3) I then tweaked the layout and added #rstats before each post to the new R resource http://twitter.com/Rarchive
#rstats helps in SEO in Google since Google uses Twitter search as well. Existing best R search engine is http://rseek.com
In any case it is too late to change now since this is more like a automated firehose. Now you can use #rstats as well additional keywords to get more searchable useful stuff.
NOTE______
http://twitter.com/sas belongs to a guy who is wondering who is trying to hack his twitter account
, well you can check the screen shot below
Screenshot-Sky Sutton (SAS) on Twitter - Mozilla Firefox
I just created a twitter channel for everthying about the SAS language. (independent of SAS institute as of now)
That’s right -using RSS feeeds, keyword filters, key bloggers AND tweeters and using http://www.twitterfeed.com this is a firehose of information on everything SAS- includes Google Search and Twitter Search. I am still modifying it before transitioning it – Scandavian Airlines messes up some results for examples.
Anyways if you like to follow tech tweets this is one more-
The design is better ( read newer). Google still thinks design is something they studied and forgot in semester 1 of engineering – but the Ipod like design is cool.
I like the preview link feature- just hover the mouse to get a sleak preview of what the searh page goes to- it saves time I think A LOT.
Surprisingly the results are more and in different order than Google
Images result was again different than Google but I liked the images options on left margin
Google results are still more pertinent ( but not much) on the first page but Bing’s archive seemed fresher ( like catching my Linkedin profile changed url while Google gave an error)
Overall summary- it is NEW and DIFFERENT and GOOD. Good enough to add to the toolbar. But not great enough to leave 8 year old habits of Googling it. Unless Google guys really bung it up.
DECISION STATS 