New facets in TweetPivot and discovering Kryten likes fast cars too

TweetPivot is used to filter and sort Twitter friends, followers or lists from multiple angles or facets. The original set of facets included Followers Count, Klout Score, Klout Class, and Location. Recently TweetPivot added two new facets to its collections: 'Member Since' and 'Tweets Count', which allow you to visualise the spread of Twitter longevity and activity-levels, and slice and dice Twitter data using these criteria.

We have analysed the 2000+ Followers for @bloodhound_ssc (the supersonic car that aims to go 1000 mph and inspire the next generation to study STEM - science, technology,

engineering and mathematics) using Klout scores and the new facet 'Member Since'. Below is a screen-shot of the collection sorted by year of joining Twitter.

Zooming in to the 83 followers who joined Twitter in 2007, the monthly distribution can be seen:

Keeping the 2007 filter on, if we sort by Klout score, then we can see that there is a spread of klout scores, with 0-10 being most prevalent (perhaps surprising for a group who have been twittering for so long?).

Zooming in on the guy with the most klout, we see that it is bobbyllew (Robert Llewelyn), otherwise known as the android Kryten from one of my favourite TV programs Red Dwarf.

I once saw Robert Llewelyn give an after dinner speech, and I am tickled to discover that we're both fans of Bloodhound_SSC, in fact, I think I'll go join his list of followers now.

Give TweetPivot a whirl and see who you discover. Please leave a comment if there are additional facets you'd like to see in the future.

New: Save Twitter Lists Interactively Created with TweetPivot

Feedback from some newcomers to TweetPivot ran along the lines of:

"cool use of technology that's of interest to the curious looking for insights into their twitterverse"

However, when they were asked to explain how they would use these insights, pausing and head-scratching ensued. We believe that, with the new ability to save twitter lists, we are a step closer to making TweetPivot a useful, reusable tool...

Many Twitter users recognise that building up highly-customised Twitter lists is a great route to managing the firehose of Twitter information and maximising the relevance of updates they receive. However, it is time-consuming to build a custom list one person at a time, and simply adopting a large list from another Twitter user may leave you drowning in tweets. TweetPivot can help by making it easy to interactively chop down existing lists to increase their relevance. New functionality allows you to save the results as a custom Twitter list to be picked up by your favourite Twitter client.

If you've already tried TweetPivot, then you'll know that it enables you to interactively explore friends, followers and lists for any unprotected Twitter account and graphically identify a subset of people based on criteria such as location and influence (as measured by Klout). In the latest release of TweetPivot you can now save the results of your pivot exploration as a Twitter list.

To give it a go:

1. Go to the TweetPivot website
2. Pick a Twitter account of interest
3. Pivot its friends, followers or one of its lists
4. Interactively select a subset of interesting people
5. Save as a new list
6. Receive relevant tweets in Twitter or your favorite Twitter client

Follow @TweetPivot for updates, including an announcement of a upcoming video of how to use the new functionality.

TweetPivot goes Interactive!

We published a new feature today that has gotten us very excited at TweetPivot. Tanya Morton will be publishing a post later today that discusses more of the benefits but, for now, here's the mechanics.

Over the past few weeks thousands of people have been using our software to investigate collections of twitter users; but it's been a read-only process. Now, once you've found a subset of interesting users, we'll allow you to save them 'en masse' to one of your Twitter Lists.

This does require that you grant us access to your Twitter account but I've already blogged about what we will and won't do with that trust here.

This is what the new interface looks like - note the new button at the top 'Save Users to a Twitter List'. I've already filtered the collection so that it just contains people that Klout considers to be Socializers.



The first time you click this new button you'll need to tell Twitter that we can access your account details.



Clicking the 'Login via Twitter' link will redirect you to a page owned by Twitter where you can enter your username and password. Note: we don't ever know what your password is. All we need is the 7 digit number that Twitter gives you which you should enter in the textbox marked 'PIN'. If you keep the 'Follow @tweetpivot' checkbox ticked you'll be able to keep informed about improvements to our service, but you are free to uncheck this. Click OK to move onto the List Selector screen...



If you've already created the list you want to add your selection to, just click OK. Alternatively, click the 'New List' button to create one...



Click OK and TweetPivot will start working. You'll see a 'busy' graphic at the top of the TweetPivot window but you can still continue to manipulate the whole collection you loaded.



Finally, we'll show you a notification window telling you that all the selected users are now in the list. You then have the option to automatically jump to that list on Twitter.com.

We hope you have as much fun using this feature as we had building it!