This is not any amazing original content – but on Mashable today there was a post about 5 cool Twitter Infographics – so I ran myself (@socialpmchick) through the tools and here were the outputs and my quick thoughts on the various tools.
I like this tool because it gives you a quick ‘at-a-glance’ view of who is following you and if your overall follower base is relevant. It takes your follower’s profiles (not yours) and pulls the common profile words into a word cloud. Below are two examples. One is my account (SocialPMChick) and the other is an artichoke twitter account. Both seem to be accurately followed by relevant and related Twitter users.
This tool is not particularly useful – but I must admit, it’s fun. I see my friends (IRL), who happen to follow me on Twitter skipping by as a puppy dog, or waving with their Twitter Avatar. For business folks, you can search by keyword (or hashtag) and see a parade of Tweeters who follow that term. You can click on the individuals in the parade to learn more about them, or see their parade of followers, and it also show recent tweets. Here’s my parade:
Twitter Follower Parade for SocialPMChick
This one does not do as much for me – too much clicking to get deep. It is supposed to show you social connections of yours who are connected to other your connections and so on. Image on the left below shows my base circle. Image on the right, I selected one of my connections and it expanded to show some mutual connections.
5K Twitter Browser Infographic for SocialPMChick
This one is not quite as useful, but for the collector, you can have a mug created with a collage of your Twitter connections for just $15 (or you can order them in bulk for $11). It might be a cute gift idea for someone new to Twitter, or for some other reason.
The 5th one was called TweepsKey and I tried to run it several times, and each time it locked up my browser (both IE 8 and Chrome) – so I gave up on it. Maybe you can check it out and let me know what you think!
