Connecting through
Twitter can be a difficult as
your followers grow and you attempt to wade through all the auto tweet
noise. I’ve provided a list of the top 4
Twitter-app directories and the
top 10 Twitter follow directories that will help you explode your followers and truly get connected with those that are participating and providing value.
Personally I combine these resources with my
TweetAdder professional twitter marketing tool that allows you to easily manage and grow multiple
Twitter accounts.
Using a combination of several of these resources will boost your
followers, your interactions, your link clicks and allow you to break
your followers into sub-groups to easily manage and truly network on
Twitter.
The Top 4 Twitter App Directories
Searching for people or applications on
Twitter? Good luck with that. Since
Twitter
offers little in the way of people search features (though they now
have an improved suggestion tool), your search for interesting and
dynamic people to follow and applications to use could be a giant waste
of your time.
Thankfully there are more than a few third-party resources that you
can turn to for finding new people to follow, and new tools to help you
do what
Twitter won’t let you. We’ll shed a little
light on these 15 directories by separating them into four categories:
applications, people, politics, and strictly business.
The
apps section of Twitter Fan Wiki is like
Wikipedia
for, so it’s for users, by users model, making it the most robust in
terms of applications listed, but potentially the most unreliable if
entries aren’t current. Applications are broken down into three
categories: desktop apps, web apps, and mobile apps. And with
subcategories under each heading,
Twitter Fan Wiki makes it easy to drill down to just the apps you want to research.
There are lots and lots of applications, so you’re bound to happen
upon something new and cool that you didn’t even know existed.
Twitdom, which launched with 50+ apps and now houses more than 300, uses
WordPress as a platform to display information on
Twitter applications and let users navigate category types via tabs to find desktop, mobile, or web apps, browser plugins, and mashups.
Application profiles. Each application has a short profile that also
lists related applications. Users can also comment on or rate the
applications. And even though it’s easy to miss, users can view the
highest rated applications across the site by clicking the Popular link
at the top of the site.
Similar to Twitdom,
Twtbase also houses their database of applications within
WordPress and divides them up into either the web, mobile, desktop, or browser plug-in buckets.
The thumbnail view. Each application has a screenshot, displays current rating, and number of votes.
Twtbase also has a Site of the Day page that features one app per day.
In the same vein as
Twtbase,
Twapps
highlights each app with a thumbnail image and comment content on the
home page. Users can navigate category tabs to search for desktop apps,
Firefox plugins, mobile, and web apps.
Look and feel. The site is easy on the eyes, and since there’s only about 90 apps listed you won’t get overwhelmed by selection.
Top 10 Twitter Follow Directories & Tools
Twitter directories are a useful way to find new
followers. These directories are all different ways of associating
people with similar interests or geography. Here is a list of some of
the top
Twitter Directories .
WeFollow is a User Powered
Twitter Directory of
Twitter users organized by interests.This directory was founded by Kevin Rose in early 2009.
Here you can find
Twitter celebrities, actors, TV personalities, or new
Twitter friends in your area.
Follow them at
@wefollow
Twellow is a great new search tool and directory for discovering
Twitter users. Twellow was launched by producers of
WebProNews.
Twellow.com grabs publicly available messages from the
Twitter.com
micro-blogging service. It then analyzes and categorizes each of the
users responsible for those messages into the various categories found
at
Twellow.com. By adding these people to specific
categories we help you narrow your searching into specific niches where
you can find who you are looking for.
Use the
Get Listed form to request the user information from
Twitter and have it added to
Twellow.
You can also follow
@Twellow
One of my personal favorites. Twibes organizes
Twitter conversations by topic which makes it a whole lot easier for you to find them, stay up to date, and participate.
A lot of people set up a
Twitter account… and then what? With
Twibes, you can search on a keyword or browse their categories and find
Twitter people who are interested in the same things that you are.
Even if you are active on
Twitter, there can be lots of random conversations that are hard to follow.
Twibes makes it easy to participate in
Twitter
conversations you care about, which is made even easier with their
threading feature. This allows you to follow all replies to a tweet
from start to finish, without having a bunch of other
tweets in the way.
It basically allows you to create sub-groups you can then inneract
with by topic and based on what their interests are. This is a great
tool for Internet marketers!
Follow them
@Twibes
The
semi-controversial TwitterPacks is a wiki style directory originally started by
Chris Brogan about a year ago, had some issues then regrouped and got its act together.
People are organized in packs by topic, interest, location, company, and events. Now that the dust has settled,
TwitterPacks could be just the thing you need to find great people to follow on
Twitter.
Grouped in unique “packs” the category types are endless, with the
Interest packs including everyone from fitness buffs to gardening
gurus, so it’s the perfect place for hobbyists and serious marketers to
add themselves or connect with like minded individuals. Plus, the
convenient
Autopack tool lets you follow and unfollow
Twitter users based on their pack.
Follow
@ChrisBrogan
TwitDir is a searchable directory of
Twitter users.
TwitDir enables you to find statistics of the Top
100 followers, Top 100 followed, Top 100 favoriters and Top 100
updaters. It also works as a search engine for
Twitter users, which mean you can find any user information by searching his name.
Follow
@TwitDir
Just
Tweet It is a user directory for
Twitter organized by genre to allow for users to easily find other
Twitter users to connect with.
It was created to make it easier for people using the popular micro-blogging service
Twitter to find other “
Tweeters” with similar interests.
Follow
@justtweetit
TweetFind.com is a
Twitter Search Directory for Businesses & Users.
Its a
Twitter Directory where
Businesses & People can add their own
Twitter accounts to a
Free Twitter Directory.
Follow
@tweetfind
Twibs is the
Twitter Business Directory.
Twibs was created by a small group of people with one purpose: Give
twitter users a place to find businesses on
twitter.
Add your business to the definitive list of businesses on
Twitter.
Follow
@twibs
GeoFollow is a location based
Twitter directory. This directory that takes advantage of adding listings based on
tweets to their own account.
Tweet the following and replace your geographic information and tags:
@geofollow your city, your State Your Zip #tag1 #tag2 #tag3.
Follow
@geofollow
Similar to
WeFollow, you can find others on
Twitter by using
TweeterTags‘ keywords. But unlike
WeFollow, you don’t input tags. Instead, the service searches through
Twitter to find commonly
tweeted tags
and allows you to click on them from a cloud. Whenever you click a tag,
you’re given a listing of people who have mentioned it in recent tweets.
You can follow them
@Tweetertags
