January 2012
4 posts
Goodbye from Formulists
“The time has come,” the Walrus said, “To talk of many things..” Or specifically, one very important news update. Like all start-ups, we have been working within a very tight budget for a while now, and are sad to announce today that due to cash constraints we will have to shut down the Formulists website. The team has learned a lot through our experience and have had a lot...
Connecting Others vs Connecting With Others
One of the major benefits of utilizing tools like Twitter lists, Twitter chats and other forms of social media curation is that in addition to helping connect yourself to others you are also helping connect others with each other, usually around topics of interest.
Most of us know the benefits of connecting more with other people: friendship, great conversations, networking and more.
But...
How Should You Organize Your Twitter Network?
Strengthen Relationships on Twitter
December 2011
7 posts
5 tags
Got Questions? Find Answers.
What is a Twitter list and why should I make one?
What is Formulists and Formulytics?
How can I find new customers on Twitter?
Some of these questions go back to Twitter basics, all are very important to ask. To help users and others get quick and clear answers to these questions and more, we have prepared a “how to” and explanation guide on our site to address a number of them....
4 tags
How To Track New Followers from Hootsuite
New followers are potential future friends and customers, as well as an indication of the type of audience you’re attracting.
Now on Hootsuite, you can easily create a self-updating list of your new followers via the Hootsuite app directory. Just add the Formulists app and then choose to add a “recent followers” stream.
5 tags
How To Get to Know New Followers
Who are your new followers? People you just met in real life? New potential friends? Future customers?
It helps to keep an eye on who is following or unfollowing you, so that you don’t miss opportunities to meet great new people and future friends. Learning who your new followers are and when they follow you will help you begin cultivating relationships with the new folks entering your...
4 tags
Formulists Now Available from Hootsuite!
We are super excited to announce that as of today, Formulists will be available from Hootsuite, a leading social media dashboard. Hootsuite is the ultimate command center for managing and measuring your social networks because it allows you to efficiently multi-task from one central location via a number of “streams” of information.
These “streams” in Hootsuite allow you to simultaneously...
3 tags
Stop and Hear the Tweeting
Back in 2008, the Washington post covered a really interesting study in which they had one of the most famous and talented musicians in the world, Joshua Bell, play some of his usual concert pieces incognito in a subway. Almost no one stopped to listen or recognized how beautifully he was playing.
Within the last few weeks- Jay Baer wrote a great post about how, thanks to new media like...
What Kinds of Twitter Lists Should You Make?
Two Helpful Tools to Analyze Your Twitter Network:
Top Tweeps Analyzer
This tool on Formulists.com will analyze all your interactions on Twitter to determine who your top fans, mentioners and tweetmates are. You can preview who these people are and also quickly group them into a list.
Why group “top tweeps” into a list?
By grouping your top fans into a list, you make it really...
The Best Place to Meet People on Twitter
Perhaps one of my favourite things about Twitter is how easy it is to find and network with awesome people around the world. At any given moment, you can find a conversation going on about almost any subject of interest. Of course, some moments are better than others and some types of people are friendlier than others.
On a very regular basis, usually once a week, “Twitter chats”...
November 2011
1 post
4 tags
Where do #BWELA people hang out on Twitter & other...
Blog World Expo went on in LA this past weekend where a number of bloggers and social media experts came together to discuss relevant issues and ideas. You can check out a bunch of these thoughts on the Blogworld.com website here.
But for those of us who did not make it out to BWELA, or those of us that did and want to keep networking with the awesome group of people that went, we thought it...
October 2011
3 posts
4 tags
How To Keep from Flooding Followers with Tweets...
There’s a lot of great chats that come up on Monday (#usguyschat, #socialchat, #rbchat)… or any other day of the week for that matter. The chats are great for learning new tips, meeting new people and just having a good time. But they also seriously crank up your frequency of tweets per an hour which not all your followers will appreciate. Thankfully, there are some built in...
#Howto Find Who You're Looking for on Twitter
With 100 million active users from all over the world, you can find just about any group of people, and any topic of conversation, on Twitter. The question is how. Here’s a few tips on places you can start.
Twitter Chats
Probably the most useful way I’ve yet discovered for finding very sociable and high quality people who are interested in a specific topic. Twitter chats typically...
3 tags
What Are the Most Optimal Hashtags to Use?
“A hashtag is really just a way of categorizing your tweets so that they are part of a narrowed conversation and they’re easier to find in Twitter search.” - Lauren Dugan, “Twitter 101: Why Use Hashtags”
Hashtags are great because they help you target both topics and audiences while giving context to your conversations in social media. And as a result of using them...
September 2011
5 posts
5 tags
Engage and Reach Your Target Audience
Lists are awesome. They are awesome for finding people, for recognizing people and following topics and interests. But probably the most awesome thing about lists is that they allow you to engage and grow your Twitter network in targeted ways. After all, that is a key reason to be on social media: to find and network with people who have shared interests and to create conversation around your...
6 tags
What Makes Analytics Meaningful?
This was a question that popped up in #usguyschat this week, and one we are trying to work out ourselves as we release and continue to develop Formulytics. The amount of data and ways to capture it are growing every day, so learning how to filter and process it effectively is critical for any professional or business. That’s why I thought I’d share some of the smart points and...
See Which Followers You Never Talk To
Currently with Formulists it’s really easy to see which people you have been chatting with most lately, but what if you’re looking to see which tweeps in your network you haven’t talked with recently… or ever?
Here’s how to see who these people are:
Step 1: Define what it means to have talked to someone recently
If you just want to know who you haven’t...
5 tags
Reach Your Target Audience on Twitter
Today, we are formally introducing Formulytics, smart analytics that can help users more effectively reach and engage with their target audience on Twitter. It works by running an analysis on the members of a Twitter list you want to target (ie: conference attendees, local foodies, moms, etc) and providing insight into who they are and what they’re interested in, including trending links,...
5 tags
Getting More Out of Tweetdeck (and lists!)
Both Tweetdeck and Hootsuite are awesome Twitter clients that can help you get a lot more out of your social media experience. Specifically, both these dashboards allow you to monitor multiple “columns” or “streams” at the same time which means you can simultaneously monitor mentions, home feed, searches and list streams which can seriously boost your efficiency and save...
August 2011
3 posts
4 tags
#HowTo Find Top Mentioners of a Keyword or Hashtag...
Top mentioners/participants of “#tweetnight” chat
Hashtags on Twitter can be used as a great and effective way to both discover and draw in new people. The same is true of certain keywords once you know how to use them. They can be especially useful to both businesses and individuals looking to expand their network and find relevant people to follow and engage with. And by using...
Quick Tip to Help Analyze and/or Segment Your...
If you’re looking to organize your followers into lists or if you’re just looking to see what kinds of followers you have and how they compare with the followers of someone else, we have a fun and easy tip for you!
We can now analyze the top tags of your followers in addition to the people you are following! Top tags are the most popular locations and bio words amongst your...
Thanks for an Awesome #Tweetnight Chat
Last night the Formulists team was invited as a guest to #tweetnight chat to discuss a little about lists and how Formulists can help you expand your Twitter network.
Check it out here!
July 2011
8 posts
#HowTo: Group People You Follow WITHOUT a Certain...
Using Formulists it easy to filter the people you follow (or someone else follows) by location or bio words like “mom”, “blogger”, etc. But what if you want to find out who you follow that DOES NOT contain a certain bio word in their Twitter profile?
Why Group People This Way?
This might be a handy thing to figure out if you’re sorting out your timeline and want...
Boosting Networking Efforts with Lists
One of the most awesome things about Twitter is how open it is and how easy it is to network with new people. And the awesome thing about lists is how easy they make it to hone in on “buckets” of people you’re interested in getting to know. By using lists you can not only make focused streams of people you want to get to know but also self-updating streams of people you know...
How 9 Food Trucks Use Tech To Drive Business →
pamelarappaport:
The Social-Savvy Food Truck Series is supported by the Ben and Jerry’s Scoop Truck. For more information on the scoop truck and where it stops, click here. We know food trucks are embracing social media, but there’s more to running a food truck than marketing on Twitter and Facebook. There …
See Who the Top Fans of Your Competitors Are
The newest addition to the Formulists gallery is another hotly requested one: the ability to track who a competitor is talking to or being most retweeted by. These lists have been added as a pro feature and can be seen and added under the new “Who Competitors Influence” category:
How Can I Use These Lists?
Find out who your competitors are targeting
Find out who the top engagers...
3 tags
How to Subtract Lists or Follower Sets from Each...
This morning we got a great question from one of our star users, Joel Hughes. Specifically, he was wondering how he could make sure that members from one Twitter list would not also appear on another:
This is a great question, because by making sure that each twitter list has unique members, you also make sure you don’t read the same tweets twice and thus can more efficiently pay...
New Formulist: Find & Group Top Mentioners of a...
For new and existing pro users, we have an exciting new featured list for you: a list that will help you find, track and group the top mentioners of a search term or hashtag.
Where can I find this list?
This new list can be found under the “Expand Your Network” Category
What can I do with this list?
Make a list of people who participate actively or commonly in chats or events...
#HowTo: Import a List into Hootsuite
There are many ways to view and use Twitter lists, but probably the easiest way we have found is using a client like Hootsuite or Tweetdeck that will allow you to view multiple Twitter streams at once. For example, in Hootsuite, you can make one stream your mentions, another your home feed, a third a favourite list of yours and a 4th stream another list or perhaps search you want to track. By...
How would you describe a 'community manager' in <...
cacioppo:
Phil Strazzulla asked me on Twitter today, and it was a great exercise. My answer’s here - but before you click, what’s yours?
PS – turns out you can’t use mathematical operators (e.g. ‘<=’) in Tumblr post titles?
June 2011
4 posts
5 tags
Great Tips from Users on Using Formulists for...
Often times I learn great tips and uses of Formulists from star users themselves. The past month has been no exception with some really brilliant posts about Formulists and ways to make the most of the service. Below I have summarized and taken quotes from some of these hot tips and provided links to the posts and their authors so that you can get in touch with them and learn more!
Tip:...
Guidelines for Getting The Most Out of Formulists
Below are some guidelines we think will help both new and veteran users get more out of Formulists!
1. Think about the tweeps you care about
Before making a list it’s important to know what kind of feeds you would want to read. Do you want to better hone in on what locals are saying? Are you looking for a feed of quality experts on a certain topic? A different list, and Formulist, will be...
4 Social Video Lessons Brands Can Learn From... →
Some Common Questions About Formulists
Many of the questions we get revolve around the idea of automation and specifically what it means to have a Twitter list be created around an algorithm and updated automatically and the implications. So here I’ve compiled some of those questions in one place. What does it mean that Formulists are created using algorithms and will be “automatically updated”? The way Formulists makes it easy to...
May 2011
4 posts
Discover the Top Tweeps in Your Twitter Community
If you’re a community manager or just someone looking to discover and give thanks to your top supporters on Twitter, then the newest Tweepshuffle cloud is for you. The “Top Tweeps” cloud finds the top people that you have talked to, that have mentioned you and that you have retweeted. In addition, you can see your top retweeters for both the current month or for the year.
...
Quickly See Who You Have Not Listed Yet
As a result of popular demand, we have added a new Formulist that can quickly figure out and group all the people you follow that you have not yet listed yet. This list can be really helpful in managing your Twitter community and ensuring that you are focusing on all groups of people you have chosen to follow.
You can find this list under the “Organize Your Network” category:
Happy Mother's Day from Formulists
Today is Mother’s Day and so we wanted to present some fun and useful ways moms can use Formulists to help them find quality mom-related information sources on Twitter as well as meet new and awesome Twitter moms either in their area or abroad.
Find Quality Information Resources for Moms
If you’re a new mom on Twitter not sure how to get started, this might be a...
Political Tweepshuffling
Today is election day in Canada, so we thought it would be fun to show you a cool way you can use the new Formulists Tweepshuffler to profile different tweeps including political candidates!
The tweepshuffler lets you “shuffle” through ways to sort tweeps in your own community, but you can also use it to analyze or group cool people others follow as well. And who a person chooses to...
April 2011
4 posts
Quick Lists for Businesses and Pros
All Formulists lists are designed to help users achieve certain goals on Twitter but we thought we would compile a few that we thought would be extra helpful for businesses and professionals on Twitter.
List to Track and Strengthen Ties with Most Loyal Followers
How to Make: Click on the “Strengthen Social Ties” goal category > add the “Track Your Most Loyal...
Need Help Organizing Your Twitter? Introducing the...
If you’re new to Twitter lists, or even a veteran of them trying to figure out optimal uses for them, the Tweepshuffler was designed for you. Just click on the new “TweepShuffler” link at the top of Formulists.com and the Tweepshuffler will begin to analyze your Twitter community for optimal ways to sort the people in it.
Behind the scenes, the Tweepshuffler figures out the...
5 tags
How to Find and Strengthen Your Relationships with...
Knowing the people that have been your or your brand’s most loyal retweeters can be helpful since it will allow you to evaluate what kinds of people are most loyal to you as well as how many of them there are. Another valuable reason to try and figure out who these people are is so that you can make sure you are maintaining and strengthening your relationships with them.
Using lists from...
Formulists Introduces Topic Lists!
Tweep Cloud of “SF Food Trucks” lists made using Formulists new topic lists with “food truck” as the topic and “San Francisco” as the location filter
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could just type in a topic of interest and- BOOM- get a special Twitter stream featuring a bunch of experts on that topic right on your Twitter homepage? Well, now you can....
March 2011
6 posts
5 tags
Using Competitors to Find Relevant People to...
Tweep Cloud of Vancouverites following at least 5 of 8 food truck accounts
In addition to organizing the people you follow with Formulists, you can also quickly (and easily) sort and filter through the people that anyone else is following or has following them. This can be useful for anyone looking to nab some suggestions of who to follow from friends, someone they admire or even competitors....
Twitter Tip: Create Lists within Lists
Whether for business or personal interest, it can be helpful to create lists within lists so that you can progressively and on-command, hone in your focus on the group of people that you want to pay attention to at a particular moment in time. And there is a super easy and fast way to make these lists with Formulists.
Step One: Start with a list of group of people you want to focus on. It can...
Join Us For #SMManners Chat Tonight 10pm EST!
We are really excited to announce that we will be sponsoring @DabneyPorte’s #smmanners chat tonight to talk about different twitter tools to help build up and strengthen your Twitter network!
This discussion is directly related to what Formulists aims to do for its users. For those that do not know yet, Formulists is a website that helps users find and focus on relevant groups of Tweeps...
5 tags
Ways You Can Use Formulists To Discover Great New...
For those who would like to try Formulists out as a way to grow their Twitter network and discover new and relevant people, there are a few ways you can do it.
Formulists’ “Expand Your Network” lists each look at one of three different ways we are connected to each other on Twitter- lists, @ replies and follows- to help you find and connect with the people most relevant to...
Meet Sociable People on Twitter that are in Your...
TweepCloud of the locals that are most social with the people I’m social with (size reflects how social)
One of my personal favourite ways to use Formulists is to help me discover and network with locals I do not know yet but who are frequently social with the same people I talk to a lot.
The idea here is that if you are someone that has talked a bunch of times with many different...
Formulists Pro Options Now Available
As of this morning, new Formulists pro options have been introduced including the following handy starting features:
- up to 6X faster updates than normal users (whose lists update daily)
- the ability to refresh lists on-demand which will be quite useful for a number of users including any who are using the ’who-recently-unfollowed-me’ list
- No account expiration!
Pro users...
February 2011
3 posts
How to Filter the People You Follow Based on How...
As a result of popular demand, we have added in a new filter option to all of our lists- the ability to filter based on how often someone tweets. So, as one example, if you follow 100 really active tweeters that tweet 40 times a day and then have 20 friends that tweet only once or twice a day, you can now filter the two groups into separate lists so that you don’t miss the less frequent...