Twitter is a really great tool when it comes to looking up for news or getting updates from your favorite Twitterers. For Bloggers, its a good way to build interactions and get ideas. That gives you ideas to improve your own blog. But there's one question rolling in everyone's mind and it is how to find such blogs and how to look for more interesting stuff that relates to your own niche as well? So here goes the process.
Twitter research
Twitter research should be very first thing you do when searching for people to follow. Hashtags are a really smart way of finding information. People use hashtags to monitor conversations and ger their tweets listed. This also makes tweets public availabe easily. When you search for hashtags, you will get results from bloggers and the top bloggers in your niche are usually the ones talking about the niche often. Take a look at what comes up, and follow the people you think have a substantial following.
Bitly Realtime
Realtime is a relatively new search engine bu Bitly that not only returns results form Twitter but also other social media. It basically tracks the URLs that has been shortened through Bitly. And since many bloggers use URL shorteners, this is a great way to find top influences as well. ALthough the project is still in its beta phase, it already is starting to make a mark for itslef.
Listorious
Listorious is a really great tool for finding popular people on twitter. It has more than two million Twitter users registered, and if you visit the site, you will see a list niches you can choose from to see the top twitterers for a specific niche. You can search for a niche too. And if you think you're popular, you can get listed too by signing up.
Follower Wonk
FollowerWork comes with SEOmoz PRO. It's another great tool for analyzing user bios, searching, tracking, sorting followers and users. All data is constantly updated, so you will get the latest results.
SocialBro
SocailBro has been specially designed for the purchase of discovering influencers based on user-defined criteria. It has full analytical data on folloers, social contact, profile management, and more. It is very powerful tool, but it comes at a price starting from $6.99. Still, a pretty good tool for power users and analytics.
Klout
Klout is another very large application that lets you find influential people. It has over 100 million registered users and you can find from among them. You can also get listed by signing up with Twitter or Facebook.
Suila
A very simple application that's easy to use yet a good one. It has gathered data from millions of users, and ranked the popular ones. You can search for a topic simply and find out the experts on that topic within seconds.
Twellow
A basic list of users based on popularity there are a number of categories with users listed within. You have niches such as News and Media, Sports, Government, Education and more. You can find results based on smaller niches, location or other factors.
Endorse
It works on a relatively different concept. Rather than ranking users according to their number of followers and other data, it ranks them based on 'endorsements', or recommendations from other users. The idea, being the best way to find out about influential people is through socializing.
Science Pond
This is a perfect site for the science geeks out there. It will help you find influential scientists on Twitter. SciencePond has a full list of scientists from Twitter, and who is better to follow than an influential scientist?
So go on. Happy blogging :D
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