FILTERING YOUR TWITTER STREAM CREATING GROUPS ON TWITTER

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FILTERING YOUR TWITTER STREAM

The Twitter stream moves at a furious pace especially if you follow a large amount of people. In order to be able to get to the information or tweets that interest you at a particular

moment you need to have the ability to filter through the stream. There are many filtering applications that can be used to filter your searches.

 Microplaza is a stream filtering service that permits the user to organize the tweets in your stream that contain links. The links are organized according to how recently it was posted and how popular the tweet is. This filtering premise is based on the fact that you will be more interested in the tweets and links from the people you already follow.

 Another possible filtering method is to organize the people that you follow in categorized groups. By dividing your Twitter stream you make smaller groups and the messages will flow at a slower pace making it easier to track the people you follow. Several programs can help to

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make the grouping effect easy and they are; Destroy Twitter, Tweetdeck, Seesmic and people browser.

 You can also filter the Twitter stream by specific keywords. The following are some programs that will help with this type of filtering;

 Philtro uses your input on tweets to determine which tweets in the future will need to be filtered. By keywords it will filter your tweets to only the ones that may be of particular interest to you.

 Filttr is a filtering service that allows the user to create lists of keywords, one set of keywords are desirable and the other set are the undesirable keywords. With this program your tweets with desirable keywords will be displayed and the tweets with keywords from the undesirable list will not be allowed to flow in your stream.

 Just signal is another filtering product that filters just the desirable tweets by keywords that you designate.

 Tweetbeep lets the user track keywords in the stream and sends an email to the user when their desired keyword is tweeted.

 Twilert works pretty much the same as tweetbeep, you are notified when a chosen keyword is tweeted.

Another type of filter to be used in the Twitter stream is the filters that remove “noise”. Noise is tweets that contain undesirable text or are tweets from undesirable people. These filters work to mute people not de-friend them; it actually just mutes them until you remove the filter. Twalala is one of these programs that will temporarily mute undesirable tweets.

Another Twitter stream filter that is popular right now is Cadmus, this filter works to filter your stream in real time by displaying rele-vant tweets that have been posted since the last time you signed on to Twitter. The tweets are organized by relevance and grouped into rele-vant conversations.

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Untweeps is another type of filter for managing the Twitter stream. It works by identifying inactive users that you are following and offers the option to unfollow them.

CREATING GROUPS ON TWITTER

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• I n the Twitter community following people of interest is the mainstay of the website but the ability to group your follows into sets of relevant people is a trend that is very much desired
• by the Twitter community. Now Twitter does not have an inherent feature that will group people from the site so there are several third party applications that work to create groups on Twitter. You may want to create a group related to your hobby, job, or school some of the programs that create groups effectively are:
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• Tweetworks allows the user to create groups that are public or private; it also permits the user to send messages to the groups whether public or private.
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• Twittangle lets the user create groups as well as tagging and rating your friends this program lets you do batch grouping where you can drag and drop your friends into groups that you designate.
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• TwiTag is a tag searching service that you could create groups in by using a hashtag to name a particular group of people.
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• Filtr lets the user create groups according to filters.
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• Tweetdeck lets the user create groups with all of your Twitter contacts.
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• Twitter4groups is a program that allows users to send messages to a private group.
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• Grouptweet allows users to communicate privately with a select group.
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• Tweetworks can be used for public or private groups; you can also join groups or create your own groups. Tweetparty lets users create their own groups and you can message everyone in a group simultaneously with one tweet.
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• Twitter Teams this application lets you join Twitter teams and use team tags.
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• There are also applications to create hashtag groups:
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• Tweetknot lets you create public or private groups to follow people or rss feeds.
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• Crowdstatus is another application that allows users to create groups
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• Twitizen lets the user create groups and allows for tweet filtering.
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• Twitly is a basic application the lets you separate the people you follow into groups.
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• Twithive gives user the ability to not only create groups but create Twitter channels as well.
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• Twubs creates Twitter groups based on hashtag contents. Twibes lets you create your own grouped Twitter discussion hub.
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• Tweet channel gives the opportunity for the user to create and initiate discussions in Twitter groups.
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• There are other applications that are for use with a desk top that allow for Twitter grouping as well.
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• Seesmic Desktop creates groups and calls them userlists;
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• you can delete lists as a whole or add and remove people individually.
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• Hootsuite creates groups of users as search results. Destroy Twitter is another desktop application that creates user groups.
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• People Browser has the basic functions of the other applications.
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• Nambu works as a desktop application to create groups according to specifications.
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• Tweetr also allows the user to create groups according to desired terms.
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• The ability for a Twitter member to create their own specific groups within Twitter is tremendous because of the creation of so many workable third party grouping applications.