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Show Your Popularity With Twitter Counter

Martin Brinkmann — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:15:13 +0000

I recently visited the size of Sarah Perez who is running the excellent Sarah in Tampa blog where a Twitter Follower counter caught my attention. The counter looks very similar to the Feedburner counter that I have added to my blog to display the number of users who are reading my RSS Feed each day.

The Twitter counter works similar only that it is displaying the Twitter followers of a Twitter account. I’m not using Twitter but I think this could be interesting to the “social inclined” webmasters who read my blog.

You can head over to Twitter Counter if you want to create your own Twitter Follower counter to display your followers on your blog, website or even forum signature. All you need to do is enter your Twitter username and copy and paste the code that is displayed.

Users can also take a look at the amount of followers of the last seven days and even discover the top 100 Twitter users with the most followers. Below is an example of place 12 on that list from a user named HotDogsLadies with an impressive amount of followers.

Visitors can look at the amount of followers of every Twitter account and even embed the stats from someone else on their website to show off, similar to those users who embed Feedburner accounts of other webmasters to display a larger number of RSS Feed readers.

ParisLemon And The Last Podcast! join Grand Effect

Martin Brinkmann — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 07:51:34 +0000

You know that I’m a honest person and when I first heard about the two new additions to the Grand Effect network I had the following thoughts: Paris Lemon sounded like a hot French chick ( sorry girls) and I was anxious to get a first picture when I woke up from my pleasant daydream to find out that it was a blog by MG Siegler about tech and new media. So, no hot girl but a damn good blog which is something that I can live with since I prefer content over looks anytime, anywhere..

I honestly have not heard about The Last Podcast before which is surely going to change now. I was not able to locate Podcasts there which is kinda freaking me out.. just a little bit. He does seem to provide an interesting perspective about (mainly) Web 2.0. So, two plus four makes six: Grand Effect (I almost wrote Grand Central, wonder how I came up with that) is now home to six blogs that cover a variety of topics.

What I like is that we will remain who we are. This will never be a big anonymous network with hundreds of blogs, it will remain small and exclusive and I’m looking forward to getting to know each and everyone of our network.

Here is the list of all blogs that are a member of Grand Effect:

SheGeeks, Sarah in Tampa, eXtra for Every Publisher, ParisLemon, The Last Podcast! and of course yours truly..