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[DailyBlogTips) Pour l'auteur, il n'y a pas photo : un twitter follower vaut davantage qu'un nouvel abonné à votre flux RSS... Le billet date du 20 novembre : lire aussi la longue discussion qui suit dans les commentaires.

Twitter Groups allows you to tag your followers into different groups. Then you can send a message to those groups without needing to send the message to each person one at a time!

Twubble can help expand your Twitter bubble-it searches your friend graph and picks out people who you may like to follow.

Bill Gates, Microsoft Co-Founder has started Twitter Account @billgates. Within 18 hours from his first tweet, he got more than 182K followers and listed in 5K lists.

Actor Ashton Kutcher recently challenged CNN to be the first to 1 million followers on the micro-blogging site, had more than 959,360 Twitter followers as of 1 p.m. ET Thursday. CNN's breaking-news feed had about 12,000 more Twitter fans, with some 968,000. But the real intresting part is the Ashton reaches one million fans on his Facebook fan page while am writing this post Ashton has1,037 ,940 fans on his Facebook fan page.

Topify, a simple but powerful tool, saves a lot of time and energy when replying to direct messages and responding to new followers. Topify also has an added value in detecting spam followers.

"10 college Twitterers worth following" w/ follower count, post count, and a couple of paragraphs about them.

This is a handy tool as I can create lists for workshops to get teachers to follow other teachers quick.

Article about the pitfalls of trying to "pad" your followers so that new accounts look popular.

Ok, so what is Twitter and why should you care?  First, let's start with what it isn't.  Twitter is *not* about micro-blogging.  Yes, it is described this way - yes even by it's founders.  But they have also admittedly publicly that much of the innovation on Twitter has happened in the user base - the convention for retweets (RT), for example, came from the user base.  For those of you who are new, RT is just a way to a convention for sharing a message from someone you follow to your own followers.  It's sort of citation plus recommendation plus message all wrapped in a little two letter acronym.

TrueTwit is a validation service for Twitter. It distinguishes between people and bots, helps prevent spam, and SAVES YOU TIME in MANAGING (BLOCKING) BAD FOLLOWERS!

Create a feed of your own tweets, those you follow, and those following you. Import the OPML file into Google Reader.

...here's how to manage the followers you have in a way that's mutually beneficial...

At the time of this writing, I have over 91,000 Twitter followers. No, I don't read every word they type. No, I don't recommend that you try to get 10s of thousands of followers...but here's how to manage the followers you DO have in a way that's mutually beneficial...

"Followerwonk helps you explore and grow your social graph. Dig deeper into Twitter analytics: Who are your followers? Where are they located? When do they tweet?"

Tweriod will analyse your followers' streams, work out when they are online the most and let you know the best time to post your tweets!

Find out which of your Twitter updates made people follow or leave you. Simply enter your Twitter ID in the following form.