Tweepler is a brand new application for Twitter users who are finding it difficult to sort through new followers and decide if they should follow back or not. The application offers an interface that divides your followers into ‘unprocessed followers’ and two sidebars that give you an overview of people you are following back and users you are ignoring.
When you first sign up, you register for an account using your Twitter credentials and Tweepler will automatically import users you are following and who are following you (this part is a little buggy). Once the import is finished, the latter group is thrown into the bucket of unprocessed followers along with bits of information which make it easier for you to decide if you should follow them back or not.
Tweepler will show a list of users along with their avatar and bio, which you can sort by newest follower or alphabetically by name or Twitter username (there’s also a decent search engine built in). If the person doesn’t protect his or her updates, you can view more details about the user, such as the average amount of tweets per day, total number of tweets so far, how many people the user is following and how many are following back as well as the last 3 messages. You can easily move users into your ‘Follow’ or ‘Ignore’ list by clicking arrows on either side of the middle column. You also have the option to follow or ignore the lot of them by clicking the bulk processing buttons.
Tweepler is definitely a time saver and an easier way of managing followers on Twitter than the currently available apps and Twitter.com, but it’s also something that you’ll likely use only once or twice, unless you’re really popular and gain dozens of new followers a day.
Tweepler was built by Jessy Ouellette (@JessyO) and Cory Schop (@coryschop), who believe they have a way of generating revenue from the application. Essentially they would give people the option of advertising their account so they’d show up on top of the interface and/or as a ’suggested follow’ and pay up per follower they gain through Tweepler.
As much as I like the application and the people who built it, I can’t imagine that this business model will work, and frankly I hope they’re not expecting too much from it.
But if you’re on Twitter, make sure you give it a spin and see if it’s a better way for you to manage your Twitter social graph (and follow @tweepler for updates).
Wow! Tweepler is really a big help in sorting your followers.
Tweepler has been added to Twitdom – The Twitter Applications Database @ http://twitdom.com/tweepler/
I agree I don’t see this bing a huge earner but it’s undoubtably a cool tool, will try it with http://twitter.com/worldometer
“When you first sign up, you register for an account using your Twitter credentials…”
FAIL!!!
Strange, the website does not open here… I cannot see how it works.
Cool, another Canadian Twitter app!
Great, another terrible twitter application – “500 Internal Server Error”
I only follow people back who have conversations with me. So I don’t need to manage my followers. What I would like is a way to manage the people I follow.
Following over 600 people makes it challenging to stay on top of the information stream. If I could group these people into clusters – web dev ppl, personal friends, SEM industry, News Feeds, VCs, etc then I could just flip between the groups to see what’s goin on in each vertical.
Where is that tool?
you can group people in TweetDeck http://www.tweetdeck.com/beta/
Justin, if you are still looking for a way to group your Tweople, have you tried http://www.tweetdeck.com/beta/ ?
This is of a great help…folowing 500+ is hard..
Praveen
http://spraveen...ro.blogspot.com
Give them some leeway. Twitter itself has been know to deliver a fail whale now and again.
You have to start somewhere and it says a lot to put yourself out in “the live”.
Craig
I also built an application that is supposed to help you decide if someone is worth following or not…it doesn’t require a login, you can put any Twitter username into it, and it will help to tell you who the user @ the most, what words they tweet, and what links they’ve been tweeting…you can also put in a list of users to get the same type of data for a collection of people…it’s still a bit unpolished, but anyone can use it at http://www.halfbite.com
Hopefully a few of you find it interesting/useful
Hey everyone, thanks for all the feedback both good and bad!
We are in the process of upgrading our server for the 3rd time. You should be able to get in shortly. These large doses of traffic are really hard to plan for and we are trying our best.
Thanks for checking out Tweepler. We hope it adds VALUE and is a solution to the Twitter Follower management nightmare we were seeing previous to this. Please leave your comments or emails us. We love to hear from you and will work closely with our community to constantly improve Tweepler.
Thanks!
Cory Schop
Co-Owner Tweepler
On Twitter: http://www.twit...r.com/coryschop
My Company: http://www.prizelogos.com
See I was nice, I waited till Mickey posts
anyways too bad people can’t see what an great app Tweepler is. It does remind me of mr tweet but about 120x better!
Good luck to you Cory and Jesse
@LiveCrunch
Ceo< : http://twitter.com/livecrunch
There is another tool that you might find helpful in dealing with who to follow and not to follow: http://www.halfbite.com
It doesn’t require a login of any sort and it can tell you some interesting things like who a given Twitter user @s the most, who they retweet, what words they tweet the most, how frequently they tweet, and even what links they tweet.
You can also give it a list of twitter users and see the same sorts of information for the group as a whole.
Hopefully it will be useful to one or two of you as well.
sorry about the duplication…for some reason it took my browser a really long time before my comment showed up and so I thought the first one didn’t take and so I posted the 2nd. DOH!
Very useful, covers some features Twitter doesn’t have.
seems cool, but how many of these 3rd party Twitter app’s really have a future business model? Are they all hoping that Twitter will just buy them?
There is no point to any of this. Twitter has just centralized web comments and web nonsense. For every 1 worthwhile twitter post there is 1 million that are worthless.
really helpful thanks!
http://thecashc...am.blogspot.com
I just don’t see the usefulness of this app.
Basically all it let’s you do is look at people that follow you and let you decide if you want to follow or ignore.
I already do this when i receive an email notification form twitter, I look at their profile, if it’s interesting enough I’ll follow if not I’ll just ignore. In either case I’ll delete the message.
Now why would I want to go over those “ignored” followers again ?
But do you remember why you didn’t follow that one user back who started following you months ago? If you get a lot of new followers regularly, Tweepler really saves you time in sorting through them within one interface.
But like I said, you’ll likely only do this once or twice.
Almost useless. The only benefit it seems to provide is the little blurb about people new followers so it makes it easier to decide if to follow. Should be easy for Twitter or TweetDeck to implement. And TweetDeck is a much more robust application: I currently have it sorted by 5 different panes that include topic search results.
Besides, any website that takes up half the page’s real-estate to explain how to use it should ring alarm bells right off the bat.
again, giving out your twitter user and password to some service, great.
i’ll check this out.. i’ve been using the SocialToo daily update email to check on people, but this seems easier.
Seems to have issues with having to login every three or four times when using it. Plus it only processes 100 people an hour. Hope it gets better.
Guys – this is awesome! Of course it would also help if people didn’t post such rubbish in the first place but now, as far as I’m concerned, they can post what they like!!
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Thanks for providing such great information. Twitter has become quite a useful tool, hasn’t it?Check out my recent blog I even backlinked this blog! I look forward to reading more of your postings!
Anyway, check out my blog,What the Tweet?, when you have a chance. I would appreciate any advice you have to offer.
Once again thank you for the comments and I just wanted to follow up and thank everyone for the continued support as Tweepler continues to grow and find it’s way among the mix of the top Twitter apps out there. As time goes and an with Twitter growing so rapidly.. 2400% I think last I heard we can see more and more people beginning to use Tweepler because their follower counts are going up. So thank you all for making Tweepler an effective Twitter follower management tool.