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TweetPsych uses two linguistic analysis algorithms (RID and LIWC) to build a psychological profile of a person based on the content of their tweets. The service analyzes your last 1000 tweets and works best on users who have posted more than 1000 updates. It also works best on accounts that are operated by a single user and use Twitter in a conversational manner, rather than simply a content distribution platform. For more information read the blog post or follow the creator Dan Zarrella

New: check out the TweetPsych Site Profiler

http://TweetPsych.com?name=satyacolombo">Click here to tweet about TweetPsych

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The features displayed below are those for which you score higher than the average. The score indicates how much more often you tweeted something that matched each feature than the baseline.

Cognitive Content

Feature	Description	Score
Cognitive processes	You often talk about various cognitive processes like learning, thinking, knowing, etc.	66.18
Occupation & work	You talk a lot about jobs and your work.	35.8
Insight		26.65
Positive emotions	You express plenty of positive emotions.	17.21
Positive Feelings	You often discuss positive sensations and feelings.	14.6
Time		11.83

Primordial, Conceptual and Emotional Content

Feature	Description	Score
Social behavior		105.86
Abstract thought		87.44
Glory		27.21
Temporal References		19.19
Moral imperative		10.79
Anxiety		5.15

The users below are those users who are the closest match to your TweetPsych profile. As we profile more users this will get more accurate.

Some people that think like you:	Tweets	Followers
	ricraftis	9777	28897	http://TweetPsych.com/?name=ricraftis">Tweet @ricraftis
	virtuallin	5160	11452	http://TweetPsych.com/?name=virtuallin">Tweet @virtuallin
	iainbroome	1824	1296	http://TweetPsych.com/?name=iainbroome">Tweet @iainbroome
	missmcj	4440	1009	http://TweetPsych.com/?name=missmcj">Tweet @missmcj
	sbeckham	2916	6259	http://TweetPsych.com/?name=sbeckham">Tweet @sbeckham

Click on the link for your own analysis. I for one, am a 27.21 for Glory..... now if only i could figure out what that meeans....! guess i should read that blog post - dammit i got work to do!

oh wait, i guess this is work.... :-)

All i can say is WOW - this is the 1st hard data i've seen that's this thorough.... Something to pay attention to, for sure... (oh, and please retweet this) ;-)

This is one of those cases, where you really have to identify your message - your personal strengths and weaknesses, and your audience - and establish yourself within the online space of your business.

As Dan Schawbel mentions in his Generation Y personal branding book Me 2.0:

Personal branding is about unearthing what is true and unique about you and letting everyone know about it.

Trouble is, for a lot of people the ramifications of that statement are scarier than a sinister clown clutching a bag full of spiders.

In my own work with Gen Y, I’ve seen that the critical piece that’s missing from all the advice on social media and career branding is the inner game work that’s needed to throw yourself and your personal brand online.

It takes confidence and guts to ask the big questions of yourself, and even more confidence to put your experience and life out there for the whole world to see.

Once this is established - the inner game is set up - then you can really start to flow and produce powerful content for your site and your audience. Content that flows easily in the social media sphere...

http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Happiness-Project/141374821015

CHECK YOUR FB NET WORTH LATELY...?
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Author of The Whuffie Factor explains how social media is not the answer to your problems, but just one part of a consumer-centric business model. She calls out @comcastcares as an example of social media as bandaid, covering the gaping wound that is a much larger customer service issue.

Your Social Media Strategy Won't Save You

Everyone wants the advantages social media, but few are ready to become a social business. As Andrew Eklund points out, "social media strategies are pervasive, touching many if not most areas of a business, as many companies have found out the hard way."

A few years ago some companies tried to put lipstick on a pig instead of committing to the hard work that is legitimate seo. Eventually many of them wised up. Social media is much bigger. While some businesses seem like they were made for the social age, we could be talking major overhaul for everyone else.

don't miss this one - brilliant...

FAVORITE QUOTE> David All: "I check @replies first thing in the morning. I use Tweetdeck and have a group called 'Mostest' that has the people I want to hear from the mostest."

I'm glad "Trust agent" #1 @ChrisBrogan gets a mention...

 

The Are You a Twitter Snob video by Perry Belcher

I call it how I see it.  I’ve never met Perry, and have never really heard of him other than this video.  To be honest, Perry could be the greatest guy in the world who provides his followers with amazing content.  After all, he has over 66,000 followers on Twitter.  But then again, the quantity of Twitter followers doesn’t mean anything, right?

But after watching this video, I had to call him out.  This video was utterly ridiculous! Who is he preaching to here?  He’s calling Kevin Rose a Twitter snob because he doesn’t follow everyone who’s following him!  So this means that he thinks I’m a Twitter snob because I don’t follow everyone who’s following me.

Worst of all, during a section of his video he says that he’s following more people than are following him right now because he hasn’t had a chance to unfollow those who aren’t best for him.  Do you know what this means!  It means that he is sitting on his computer all day, automatically following batches of people, and then a week later, he’ll unfollow those who haven’t followed him back.

I had to know if other people had the same mentality as me.  Are the majority of people using Twitter to build a community, or are the majority of people trying to hoard followers so that they look important and prestigious?

The Question: Do you follow everyone who follows you or are you picky about who you follow?

Feedback from people who are picky:

@Norcross - “I don’t follow everyone, but I do a lot. I wish there was a way to follow them on a “probationary” period to see if I like them”

@HeyStephanie - “Picky. I always check out the profiles of new followers to see if they’re legitimate or not.”

@20orSomething - “If they follow me first, which I always appreciate, I’ll follow them back if they start a conversation. It’s about connecting.”

@TamiReiss - “I’m picky about who I follow isn’t everyone?”

@ElReyTheatre - “Super selective!”

@Joseph_Yi - “Generally I follow only “real people” rather than companies that use Twitter.  Twitter is all about being ‘real’ and ‘personal’”

@g_ro - “I’ve gotten pretty picky with who I follow back (must have a bio, link and pic + semi be related to what I do/like)”

@flatcat - “I try to stay away from people that look to spammy, way more following that followers, etc, try to cultivate value”

@mattChevy - “I keep ‘cleaning house’ so to speak. I’m not a fan of adding 500 people and hoping half follow you back.  I’d rather it be natural.”

@CarlosMic - “Very picky. I look for value, insights and conversations.  Few deliver this, that’s why I’m so proud of the people I follow”

@MeghanKathleen - “Nope, I’m picky w/ who I follow. You can’t have authentic 2-way conversations if you’re trying to play catch up and filter, IMO ☺”

@vboykis - “I don’t follow everyone who follows me… I read their bio first. They need to be relevant to the purpose I have on Twitter.”

@JuneLin - “No, picky about who I follow because I don’t want to see a bunch of random stuff on my feed”

@NikiPaniki - “I don’t auto-follow nor follow all. I look at profiles and tweets and then decide if I should follow them or not”

@JonathanMead - “I only follow people who interest me.  I try to keep it under 200″

@Akhilak - “I am pretty picky w/ who I follow. I only follow those who have interesting tweets, posting interesting quotes and links”

@eighteyes - “I have no attention span for everyone. If someone doesn’t demonstrate utility in 10 tweets, they’re not considered”

@hellopresto - “I’m more on the picky side. I look at the kind of info they tweet about, and if it’s relevant to me OR it’s entertaining I follow”

@melizzard - “I use twimailer to decide case by case. Follow people who seem real, avoid ones who have no updates or follow thousands”

Feedback from people who autofollow:

@MaryCateOMalley - “Despite my immense respect for Ed Dale, I do autofollow out of courtesty.  It brings me a world of tweets I would not otherwise see.”

@MarcandAngel - “I do follow everyone that follows me.  I do this as a courtesy.  But, I filter who I really follow by using groups  in TweetDeck.”

@Jonathan360 - “I use auto-follow b/c of the mass amount of people who choose to converse with dm’s, major bulk of my conversations”

@sutterbomb - “Just getting started on twitter, but following everyone so far. Not sure it’s the right route for me.”

Discussion: Do you feel that Perry is correct? Are Kevin Rose and I being Twitter Snobs?  Or is Perry teaching people something completely ridiculous?  You decide in the comment section!

 

YES - This is a few months old - (aeons in web 2.0 speed) and yes, it's every bit as relevant as it was when it came out....

My response:

Perry’s a brilliant marketer… and a convicted criminal who loves the limelight, and whatever tactics he can use for his business, however scummy they may be. Do a google search for perry belcher conviction.

Great job on the video Jun, and i always love a little online controversy, but i think you missed the REAL point, which is that Perry’s got a multimillion dollar internet marketing business, and he’s just using a classic “attack” tactic to build more traffic and business.

- then again, i guess you’re kinda doing the same thing, just in a slightly more productive, community-oriented way…

i guess the bigger question to ask here is, “at the end of the day, does your quest to expand the bottom line of your business eclipse the value your providing to your audience and potential PAYING clients and customers…?

- cause if that’s the case, you’re just wasting everyone’s time, including your own…

One $100 FLIP Camera + Niche Blog Post = $20,000 plus of FREE publicity

You have to understand, I had NO advertising budget for my business and along comes this amazing $20,000 marketing opportunity at no cost. Even better, the Islands Magazine article has led to numerous other (free) publicity opportunities for my small business, including a quarter page write up in Conde Nast Travel and mentions on various travel websites.

Yes, it was then that I became a TRUE blogging and social media convert!

you gotta understand how brilliant this guy lays it out - these rates demonstrate why the print magazine industry is unsustainable...

How to find good bloggers

Brady gives his method for finding relevant and potentially influential bloggers:

• The best tool is Google Blog Search. Once you have opened the search box enter your keywords and you can find out who has written about that subject in the last week or so.
• Google Alerts help you figure out who is talking about what.
• Run a search directly from Twitter and via TweetDeck, again using the campaign's keywords. Twitter can also be used to contact bloggers.
• Look at the back links and blog rolls of interesting blogs.
• Sometimes we just do a simple search in Google, although much of the time you find blogs that are out of date but it can give you a starting point from which to find more.

How to spot influential bloggers

Once Brady has identified a particular blog he does some background analysis on that site. He wants to know:

1. How much traffic the blog gets.
2. Is it abusive, unfair or biased?
3. Google Page Rank?
4. Is the content suitable for the client's PR campaign?
5. How many links are pointing to the site?
6. How many comments are there and are those comments monitored?

did you catch this round up of how this works...!

IT's AMAZING how much really powerful and useful information you can find ...if you know where to look. : )