KIDTECHGURU

If you want to know how “hot” or “cold” on Twitter, you can head to Twitemperature and find out so. Twitempeature is a special start-up that measures the “temperature” of your interaction in the microblogging community and taking into consideration of what tweets you post rather than the number of followers or updates you’ve.

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Think about this! According to a survey completed in September 2009, there are 1.73 billion internet users worldwide and 234 million websites. From these colossal numbers, we find that Facebook has passed the 400 million user mark (generating 6 million pageviews per minute), Twitter hits 50 million Tweets per day and over one billion videos are viewed on YouTube every day (source). How does this affect Bloggers?

By definition, a blog is an educational or informative web log, and there is a major crossover between Blogging and Social Networking which should be exploited to the full to maximize your presence whether you are blogging to spread information, generate revenue or both. People join a social network site to be noticed and to find out what is going on. In another amazing study, it was shown that 75% on Americans get their news online, receive it from a social networking site direct or via email and 52% forward that news on through networking sites (source).

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It’s quite surprising for one to find out that his or her neighbors are using Twitter when you didn’t even know about it. This is when Nearby Tweets comes in handy in helping you search Twitterers living near you. By punching it details such as location, keyword and search radius (measured in miles), it will present to you the 50 recent tweets that match your selection you’ve made earlier on.

If you play with this Web app and was lucky to stumble across a similar face – that is either your friend or neighbor living near you, follow him or her on Twitter and they will be surprised to see you on the social platform.

The downside of this app is that it doesn’t provides very accurate stats. As a frequent Twitter user, you should have known that when users sign up, it doesn’t requires them to provide their location and some even leave the option blank. Therefore, there are actually many of them who are not included in the database.

Chad Wyatt of PrettyTweet emailed me regarding his newly launched WYSIWYG Twitter background designer that helps you create custom Twitter background for your profile without forking out money to pay for professional designers or struggle figuring out some complicated features in Adobe Photoshop.

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