Comments on: Stalk That Twitterer

By: eulupu

eulupu — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:30:55 +0000

Is the version on http://tweetstalk.com/ working for FF 3.5?

By: Prokofy Neva

Prokofy Neva — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 03:32:08 +0000

This is good. This defeats neuralgics and tetchy anal-retentives like Dave Winer, Shel Israel, TechCrunch *cough* and Robert Scoble who block you from following them on Twitter, so that their comments can’t show up on your stream.

They do this to prevent you from exercising your freedom of expression to comment on their Twitters.

But of course it’s retarded, because you can just look them up on Tweetscan and follow what they say anyway, plus some people make accounts to follow them anyway before they can block those people, and you then follow those re-tweets.

They then want to be able to block your mention of their name, or comment on their Twitter, from their stream, so they never have to think about your critique.

The vanity echo-chamber of Silicon Valley.

By: Anonymous Following…or Twitter Stalking | Twitterrati

Anonymous Following…or Twitter Stalking | Twitterrati — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:31:31 +0000

[...] more thoughts, check out TechCrunch, which suggests Twitter may want to implement a private follow feature to do what TweetStalk is [...]

By: Diego

Diego — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:53:42 +0000

Can it be used to follow jokers that use the Block feature like there’s no tomorrow?

By: Yasser

Yasser — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:31:55 +0000

twittermurder is something i’ll subscribe to.

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By: Stalk That Twitterer | Tech News - Business News And Social Networking

Stalk That Twitterer | Tech News - Business News And Social Networking — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:56:55 +0000

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By: silicon valley dropout

silicon valley dropout — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:50:33 +0000

whats next twittermurder?

By: Jon Kepler

Jon Kepler — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:41:44 +0000

Sorry, but I still don’t get why this is useful. Just follow people normally and forget about it.

By: dave

dave — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:04:14 +0000

destroys the MAIN metric for monetization – which is accurate follower data and the ability to model the followers to see where the hubs exist within the larger network…that is why twitter does not offer this tool, seeing followers promotes the follow action

By: Besser stalken mit Twitter | Trendpiraten Blog

Besser stalken mit Twitter | Trendpiraten Blog — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:22:29 +0000

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By: CraigI

CraigI — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:59:21 +0000

You can stalk anyone you want without their knowing today via twitter — just create a stalker account….

By: Laurent

Laurent — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:27:32 +0000

@richard (and all actualy), yeah right: use a feed reader to get updates and you’re done … i don’t see the breakthrough there …

By: Kate O'Neill

Kate O'Neill — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:07:25 +0000

By the way, the invitation code is “Sitening”. Feel free to spread it around.

- Kate O’Neill
Managing Director, Sitening
(a.k.a. the “mad computer scientists” behind TweetStalk)

By: Richard Cunningham

Richard Cunningham — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:58:36 +0000

I don’t know why this made techcrunch, surely anyone could just subscribe to the RSS or visit the person’s twitter page, use FriendFeed’s imaginary friend feature or do this in my site, FriendBinder.

By: Cosmin Ghiu

Cosmin Ghiu — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:36:52 +0000

excuse me. i mean i don’t appear on the ‘followers’ list.

By: Cosmin Ghiu

Cosmin Ghiu — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:36:01 +0000

By stalking I am assuming this means I follow that person but I dont appear on their “following” list of people. I also assume that their following number doesn’t increase.

this could be an interesting tool for competitive intelligence or research. especially as more and more businesses and enterprise level companies are starting to leverage social media and twitter especially for ‘alerts’ to their customers.

By: Thunder Pig

Thunder Pig — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:57:04 +0000

I use both RSS and cut-out twitter accounts to follow people I want to “monitor from the bushes”.

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:52:13 +0000

You just couln’t have missed that the web _is_ going social

By: Darren Stuart

Darren Stuart — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:41:27 +0000

this is pretty much how crowdstatus.com used to work before we starting down the gnip road.

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:32:46 +0000

the data is public.

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:32:23 +0000

era of what?

By: kenbrady

kenbrady — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:07:14 +0000

I don’t have a problem with people following me in this way. But it does invalidate some data one might get in valuing tweets. If you don’t know how many people are following you and who they are, you can’t post info that’s as relevant to them as a group.

By: TweetStalk - Stalk People in Twitter Without Following

TweetStalk - Stalk People in Twitter Without Following — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:00:58 +0000

[...] Arrington of Techcrunch shared a nice little twitter plugin today called – TweetStalk that will let you stalk a twitterers without [...]

By: Matthieu

Matthieu — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:57:02 +0000

I think this is a moral gray area. but since you implicitly commit to zero-intimacy by subscribing to Twitter… I don’t know…

By: Domo-addict

Domo-addict — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:56:28 +0000

OMG it’s Domokun!!!