When you are planning a trip to a new city you might want to review your Twitter followers to see a list of your Twitter friends in that city.  Here is the tool for you. TweetSearch allows you to search the Bio information of your friends and followers on Twitter.

Here is the Home page for TweepSearch.com

I entered a search for my name and New York.

Here is what the screen looks like.

Now I can scroll through the list, which includes avatars, and be reminded of my New York tweeps that have typed New York in the Bio field of their Twitter profile.

The results can be sorted by last update, screen name, followers and friends and indicates whether they are following.  It also shows their follower/following counts, the number of updates, their full bio and even includes a link to their Twitter page.  This is yet another cool Twitter app, currently in Beta, created by @dacort.  Keep up the good work Damon!

Drop a comment below if you have seen other tools that allow you to search for Twitter friends.

I received a Tweet informing me that I was Tweeted by six CEOs.  This caught my attention because I had never thought about which folks are CEOs.

I replied to the tweet suggesting that it might be possible that not all of the folks on my list are actually CEOs.  The reply informed me that it is a best effort and acknowledged that there are gray areas of course.  It was further explained that they try to be “C-level-ish”.

Does your Twitter profile indicate you are a CEO?

Who are CEOs Tweeting About

Use Google to search Twitter.com using the Google intitle: command to find useful information.

Use Google to Search for specific Twitter user names

site:twitter.com intitle:”jim* * on twitter”

site:twitter.com intitle:”jim spencer * on twitter”

Use Google to Search for words in Twitter the Bio of Twitter Profiles

site:twitter.com intitle:”on twitter” “bio* * Drupal, SEO, PPC ”

Use Google to Search the contents of Tweets

site:twitter.com/*/statuses/* “WordPress 3.0″

I just ran across http://tweetboard.com/alpha/ and thought you might want to know about this site and request an invite. TweetBoard will pull in your Twitter stream onto your website or blog in near real time. The kicker is that threads conversations.  This provides a real focus on the conversation instead of a one-sided Tweet stream. Let us know what you think in the comments below.

TweetBoard home page

Twitter Lists continue to add interest to the Twitter experience.  Recently I found myself on a couple of people’s lists with the same name. The list was named Conversationalist. I thought, hmmm.  Am I really that conversational with that person?

Some time later I discovered that there is an application, named Conversationalist, that has been put to the task of making the lists.  All you have to do is sign up (Login via Twitter)  and it takes over, quite literally.

The ConversationaLIST - Click to visit

The ConversationLIST adds someone to the list if you @ someone. If you stop @ them, then they fall off the list. As they say on their site;

once someone follows your list, it means that they automatically see the tweets from the people that you’re sending @replies to, retweeting, or mentioning, so your tweets don’t appear in a vacuum. Your followers see what the people who influence you are saying on Twitter.

Is ConversationLIST helping you track the conversations that interest you?

TweetChat

The users of Twitter invented the # hashtag nomenclature.

The TweetChat tool provides a Chat Room where only tweets about a given hashtag are seen.  This keeps your main twitter stream out of view.

TweetChat - Click to visit

Any Tweet created in the chat room will have the #hashtag added to it automatically.  For example, type in “chocolate bacon” and you will see the conversations on Twitter that include “chocolate bacon”.

Secret Tweet

Have you ever wanted to tweet something with-out anyone knowing it was you?

Here is the place to do it.

Reading Secret Tweets

Reading Secret Tweets can be depressing or even frustrating if you see a tweet that you really wish you could contact that person and say something to them.

Secret Tweets - Click to visit

This could be a voyeurs paradise. Be careful out there.

Twitter continues to evolve and add new features and new buttons.  Third party applications add them as well.  There have been times for me when a command line Twitter shortcut is much faster and works when other interfaces do not.

As a former Unix admin I have a natural love of the command line. Below are three choice command line commands out of many that you might also find handy to know.

Warning; Not all third party apps are programmed to provide the feedback message or answer to these commands, but they do send the command to Twitter for processing.

How to Quickly Follow Someone on Twitter in Any Application

Problem: Sometimes I click the follow button on my Twitter home page and nothing happens or the progres wheel just keeps spinning without following and updating the page. (Due to 85+ tabs open in Firefox)

Problem: You are using a new twitter application, maybe a new mobile app, and you need to quickly follow someone, but don’t see how.

Solution: In the message box type;

F UserName

You will then see a confirmation message indicating that you are now following that person or that you already do if you are on Twitter.com.  This command works on twitter.com and in Seesmic buy your mileage may vary on other third party applications.

How to Quickly Favorite a Tweet

Problem: You want to Favorite a Tweet really fast.

Solution: In the message box type;

FAV UserName

This will only Favorite the person’s latest tweet. The command is not case sensitive.

How to Quickly See Twitter Profile Details

Problem: You need to quickly see Twitter Bio information

Solution: In the message box type;

WHOIS UserName

Capitalizing all letters works too.  Many third party applications will not support this command because they have no way to present the information, but it works on your Twitter.com page.

Twitter Profile Information Provided includes;

1. Account holder’s Name, usually your first and last name
2. Month and Year that the Twitter account was created
3. Twitter Bio description, usually a description of your and what you like
4. Twitter Location, usually a city
5. The URL you entered in your Bio, usually your blog or website

Here is a screen shot of  whois fairminder

Twitter Command Line Whois Information Displays Across the Top

Follow, Favorite and WhoIs

F UserName

FAV UserName

WHOIS UserName

Did you know these and many others exist?  Do you use any command line commands on a regular basis? Leave your comments below.  For a full list of commands visit Twitter.com forums and then come on back and share a comment.

Once you cross the abyss to managing more than one Twitter account, questions arise.  One concern may be the number of Twitterers that are following both accounts.  You may not want to hit most followers with the same tweets coming from two different accounts. The following two Twitter Apps help you see the level of account overlap between  Twitter accounts.

Both sites have appealing designs that include a Twitter bird and Twitter colors.

For the sake of clarity the examples use my two accounts, fairminder and BlogWranglers.

TWTRFRND

The website offers the following text by way of an introduction or explanation;

“A new follower? Should you follow back? Find out if you have common followings with them, and which people you follow that follow them…”

This site shows the people that @fairminder and @Blogwranglers both follow
This site shows the people @fairminder follows that follow @BlogWranglers

(This last capability is where TWTRFRND and Who Follows Whom are not the same)

Common = The 35 people that both @fairminder and @Blogwranglers follow
Indicators  = The 25 people @fairminder follows that follow @blogwranglers

A few observations

1. The explanation on this website was more clear in explaining what I am looking at
2. The two column layout was great, until it came to presenting the avatars and it switched to one column
3. Introducing Common and Indicator, two new vocabulary words to the Lexicon of Twitter, did not add clarity for me. I am still thinking about what an Indicator means.
4. The sentence descriptions above each group of avatars is invaluable

Twitter Friends - Click to visit

Who Follows Whom?

The website offers the following text by way of an introduction or explanation;

Pick up to 5 tweeters to see who they follow and are followed by in common

1. This site shows the people that @fairminder and @BlogWranglers both follow
2. This site shows the people that follow both @fairminder and BlogWranglers
3. They are both followed by  35 Twitter users in common
4. They are both following 31  Twitter users in common

A few observations;

1. This site offers to compare up to five accounts, not just two
2. The explanation of what you are seeing is less clear
3. Provides less mouse-over information about each account
4. Includes advertising and it is attractive

Who Follows Whom - Click to visit

Summary

These tools are not identical, except they will both show a list of people that both accounts follow.  I find TWTRFRND a little clearer to understand.  Who Follows Whom has the advantage of comparing up to five accounts.

What are other potential uses for these tools?

Do you know of other tools that provide a similar services?

Please leave a comment below.

Ever want to know quickly if someone is following you?  I sometimes do.  Here is a quick, single use Twitter App to answer that question.

Does Follow

Does He Follow Me? - Click to visit

There are lots of other ways to get this information. You could;

1. Review your Follower List
2. Try to DM them. If it fails, they are not following you
3. What other ways are there?  Please add to the list in the comments below. I will add them to this list along with your Twitter handle, and a link.