Twitter is removing "spammy" followers and if you're on twitter you may see a big drop in your followers. Don't be alarmed, it wasn't anything you've said. Gotta think some people may be legit though.
Mr. Tweet will do some homework for you - although I still believe in the randomness and greatness of building a network - I often find people that I thought I was following and wasn't. I don't know how this will work, but am goign to test it out!
If you are a teacher on twitter, you can "join" this group - which means nothing except your name is added to a list. I like this b/c it helps teachers find other teachers. Wish it let you put a little info but you can look at the twitter id's - I like that it is automated even the excessive ads are a little bothersome, I can live with that -- share your id or make another group.
I started receiving about five complaints a day—still, the math was good: five complaints from 140,000 exposures? I can deal with complaints but, in a sense, my idea worked too well.
600 people signed up for it. That was surprisingly high, but what’s even more interesting is that only fifty of the 450 Twitterfeed folks stopped doing it.
We got to talking about how she increased her traffic, and she told me that a “Post to Twitter” link was the most effective mechanism.
Now there is a “Post to Twitter” button on every Alltop topic page.
Cool article on twitter tools and plug ins for twitter. These help us see into what can be done with twitter, the cool tool that is really a customized, unique search engine of people.
Article by Vicky Hennigan - an up and comer in the parent edublogger category about the use of twitter for missing children alerts. Don't know a lot about how this would work but think that perhaps there are applications for having public twitterboards for such things.