Retweeting is a great way to get yourself noticed on Twitter and a great way to thank users you like or respect. And now there’s an easy way to see if you are being retweeted yourself. Retweetrank is a simple little site which lets you see how much you have been retweeted recently.

Retweet rank is a representative of the number of times a user have been retweeted by others recently.

Retweetrank lets you find rank of any twitter user. With the rank, latest retweets of the user are shown and an RSS feed can also be grabbed for the same. Monitoring retweets can provide a better understanding of audience to the originator while others can see the most interesting tweets of a user.

The top ranked twitter users, who have been most retweeted recently, are listed in the leaderboard. They are the once producing most interesting content across the twittersphere.

I found this site very useful. It illustrates how retweeting someone elses link is likely to get it retweeted again. It also shows that there is a good chance the original linker will repay the favour to you by retweeting one of your posts or links.

I got a Retweet rank of 5224 (approx 93.25 percentile). Are your links being retweeted? I recommend visiting Retweetrank and finding out

Link : Retweetrank

I suppose it was only a matter of time before a service like this came up. Tweexchange is a new service which lets users sell Twitter names they are squatting. Alkready there are hundreds of people listing twitter accounts for sale at ridiculous prices.

The website proudly tells visitors that ‘All the cool kids are doing it, CNN recently bought CNNBRK’. Their terms of service page though states that :

• This site is for entertainment purposes only.
• You use this site at your own risk.
• Buying and selling names on twitter is against THEIR terms of use.
• Tweexchange has zero involvement in the transferring of passwords/names.

I’m personally against this kind of thing. These kind of sites promote Name Squatting. Unfortunately, there are already thousands of people doing this and using software to snap up Twitter names of popular blogs and websites.

Before registering TimeToTweet.com I checked to see if the twitter username was there was stupidly never registered it at the time. I launched the blog the next day and then went to register the username and every variation of the name had been taken. I contacted Twitter about this but as I have mentioned previously, Twitter does not seem to answer any support tickets.

Twitter are not proactive against people abusing Twitter either so I see name squatting getting worst and worst. Large companies will probably get their trademarked names back quite easily. You only have to look at the actions of Google and other high profile internet companies that when a large multinational company complains about something, they usually get their way.

But for the rest of us, getting a squatted name back could be a real pain in the ass and you might have to bite the bullet and actually buy it. If you own a blog or website or are in some way known on the web, I encourage you all to register a twitter account with your full name, company name and any asliases that you use online. It could save you a lot of hassle in the future.

What’s your opinion on this?

Link : Tweexchange

If you are looking to find out more about how much you twitter and who you twitter with then you might just love Twitter Friends. Twitter Friends shows you a lot of cool information about your twitter account and highlights who you are most having conversations with. Best of all, most of the stats are in graph form (yeah I know, I’m easily pleased!).

I thought the best way to explain this service would be to show you some of the graphs it produces.

@From

A tag cloud which shows you who you reply to and who replies back.

Statistics

This area has the most information on it. It shows you a graph of who you have replied to, who has replied back to you and some other graphs. It also compares over a dozen stats to the ‘Average Twitter User’.

Visualization

A graph which visually shows you who has been replying to you the most.

Network of Outgoing & Incoming Replies

A cool graph which shows you who you have been replying to (and who has been replying back).

Overview

Twitter Friends is an interesting Twitter Stats website which will help you quickly see who you have been developing a relationship with. I’m sure it will tell you a few things about your Twitter habits that you didn’t know.

It also shows you which friends are currently online, which can be handy

Link : Twitter Friends

Do you have more than one Twitter account? If so, it might be worth your time checking out HootSuite. HootSuite lets you connect to all of your Twitter accounts and makes it easier to check updates, send tweets and direct messages of all your accounts.

It is not just a multi Twitter service though. It also lets you shorten URLs through it’s sister site ow.ly. There is a few reasons why it’s beneficial to do this.

• HootSuite lets you track stats of your Ow.Ly links. This means you can check how many times your link has been clicked by other Twitterers.
• They let you integrate your adsense id into your links. 50% of the time ads from HootSuite will be shown and 50% of the time your adsense ads will be shown.

There is one more feature that HootSuite has : The ability to send tweets at a later date. Through the dashboard you can future-date tweets from any of your accounts to publish a week, month or even a year down the line. This is a superb feature and one which I’m sure I will use in the future for competitions etc.

I encourage you all to sign up and try it out

Link : HootSuite

John Chow today launched his new Twitter site Twitter Follower. The site was developed for people who are happy to follow everyone who follows them.

It’s quite a basic service but it works well. Unfortunately, people are not automatically followed and you need to manually follow them back. Thankfully, it’s quite easy to do this through the site.

To make sure that everyone follows you back there is two features :

• A mass unfollow button which automatically unfollows everyone who isn’t following you (very handy!).
• A report feature. The idea is that users will report those who are not following them back so that the directory only lists people who do follow back.

It’s a good site and one which I will use for my @BloggingTipsCom account as I follow everyone who follows back in that account. However, I don’t plan on using it for my personal Twitter Account as there are a lot of people who do nothing but post spam links and many who don’t even update their twitter account at all so I don’t want to just follow anyone and everyone with that account.

It’s a useful site although at the moment it is lacking the ability to add more than one Twitter account, something which I would find very useful

Neverthe less, I recommend checking Twitter Follower out.

Link : Twitter Follower

TwitPic is probably the most popular site which Twitter users use to share pictures with their followers. It’s an incredibly useful site however there is no facility to search photos quickly.

Which is where TwiPick comes in. TwiPick is a real time search engine which displays the latest photos added to TwitPic. It refreshes every few seconds with new images and when you click on the photo it shows you who posted the picture. It also tells you if the image has been retweeted by other users.

It’s a good way of finding other Twitter users and fun way of finding new people. I found myself following some interesting people I probably would have never found otherwise.

Link : TwiPick