Why things went wrong with InRev_Buzzom’s Twitter?

First of all, our apologies to all the people who received a tweet from the @InRev_Buzzom regarding their unfollow details. The message did sound like a spam to lot of our visitors and we are sorry for it. It was not purposeful. So what did happen will the system and what was it anyway?

For last few months, InRev team has be researching on ways of coming with the best tool to manage the followers in Buzzom. Among many features, letting users know the growth or decline of their followers is very essential. Many times people are followed and then unfollowed, this goes unnoticed by the user. So why is it important to know your unfollowers?

Recently, their are thousands of spammers among us and these account rarely care about if you follow them back or not. They simply go mass following, they don’t even tweet, forget about getting replied. Therefore, we need a system to track these spammers down and make sure that they don’t follow us back again. Now, because Buzzom is a tool allowing to follow in mass and unfollow, it becomes our responsibility to make sure that we don’t allow our tool to be the weapon of Spammers.

As a result of such concern, we are designing a system to reduce spamming in you account. The automatic message being replied to all was a live test of the system.  For a while, we were thought of as being SPAMMER ourselves, thats quite an irony in our part. :) We will make sure such things doesn’t happen again.

Thank you for your patience and support. Your every suggestions are welcomed.

Tweet from Buzzom

One thing I always missed in TwitIn was the facility to tweet from there. As a matter of fact I used to find it annoying to leave the application in order to share my thoughts in my Twitter world. It was surprising to know that there were many users like me who wanted the facility to post their tweets from Buzzom itself.

Buzzom has been updated with this facility now with the idea to be a tool where you could manage your Twitter account completely. Its surely is the step towards the main goal.

I am completely enjoying this new feature and would love to know your experience. Please feel free to contact us at buzzom@in-rev.com for any concerns.

OAuth and Cross Follow in Buzzom

Recently, Buzzom has launched its new version for the users. So what are you expecting from the new version? Here are the few things which has been added to the applications:

1. OAuth

An open protocol to allow secure API authorization in a simple and standard method from desktop and web applications. This will prevent the user from giving up their id to the third party, instead you are connected through the twitter’s authentication process.

New Authemtication Process in Buzzom

Once you allow the authentication, you can easily operate on buzzom with out the need of repetative entry of the password. This save lot of your time. Further this is more secure than the previous method of getting the password fromthe user. In short, now you are authenticating via Twitter.

2. Cross Follow

This is an interesting feature that is very useful. This will allow you to follow the followers of other users. The interface is very simple.

Cross Follow Screen Shot from Buzzom

You have to enter the name of the twitter user on the top-left text box and press the show button. This will give you the followers and following of that user. Then you can select them to follow them.

We hope the new features will add value to your experience. We hope to recieve suggestions and recomendations of you rnew progress. Please provide your response.

Benefit from Social Media Marketing

Innovation is moving so fast, in the line of social media marketing, that everyday you come across a new word which you thought never existed. Everyday, you hear a term or a new rating which gaurantees to be the better than the previous. In these kinds of environment, just a post on new ways to market has a life time of only few seconds.

Enough has been talked about new ways to measure the effectiveness of the social media but less seems to be done. Every tool or software available has less credentials to prove the methods. In this chaotic situation, if I say I might have a solution would sound just another hoax. But I would want to to observe what I say.

Many say that the old marketing ways are obsolete and give measures and statistics to prove it. Well there is this Murphy law which I would suggest for answering such questions:

Enough research will tend to support your theory. - Murphy’s Law

There is no one perfect ways of doing marketing. There is only ways of doing it and for every different kinds of services and products some work and some don’t. Using all to see how it goes is the best you can do. So if you are uncomfortable with the Social Media Stuff, give it a go, it might just be the right thing for you.

For more information check this post out: Marketing Through Twitter

Download New Buzzom’s feature (pdf): Benefit from Social Media

To follow someone’s followers

We always tend to befriend those who are already known to our friends. It’s a habit that we have picked up over years and subconsciously still follow. Why should online social media be any different?

Let me give you an example. Remember the first time you signed into Twitter, you might have tried searching for a couple of friends. After following those friends you just went into their accounts and started following more people. You find your common friends and sometimes you find new friends with a common friend. It’s easy and hassle free.

If you are an avid twitter user, it’s even more interesting and less time consuming to go to a user who has same interest as yours and add people from his network to your network.

The ‘Cross Follow’ function in Buzzom offers the most user friendly and time efficient way to carry out this operation.

You have to just write the username of the person whose followers/ following you want to follow. You can either follow all the users from his list or choose a few selected ones.

New Features in Buzzom

After lots of discussion and request from the user, Buzzom has been revamped to address new agenda. The need for change was obvious, and was expected from the very start of the project. Buzzom has been brought up with only one thing on mind- to cater to the needs of people in social media.

Screen Shot from the Lock and Unlock Section of Buzzom.

The new design has been chosen to cater to the new features that buzzom has. So lets see what these new features are:

1. You can follow back and follow new people with just one click.

Buzzom had this feature initially but due to the mass Twitter API calls, the process had been reduced to user selection method. But now its back and better, so enjoy them.

2. You can lock users which you want to permanently follow or unfollow.

There are users which you never wish to unfollow like NewsChannel or Celebrity. In that case it is wise to lock your user so that they will never appear in the unFollow list. In similar ways, you can also lock the users which will never appear in your grow list.

Locking user is one of the most important addition to the new Buzzom. Beside the user’s lock and unlock list, there is also an internal algorithm running which will make sure that once you unfollow any one, he/she will not appear in the follow list for at least 30 days. Why this restriction? This has been put so that user will not be accounted as Spammer by the twitter. Further this will prevent from being a complusive follower.

Finally, there are more on the store for the Buzzom User. If you have any queries you can access our FAQ section or you can simply hit the contact us link and send your queries.

Do send us your reviews and comments. We would love to respond to them.

Twitter : Why unfollow who dont follow you?

Twitter is supposed to be a Micro-Blogging site. There most people speak, but few people listen. There are even people who neither listen, nor speak. And surprisingly, there are a lot of computer bots acting like Humans and fooling the audience.