I’ve been watching the various twitter ranking, measuring, mashups seem, and most have little utility (other than some of the search tools). I’m pleased to finally run into Tweeterboard, which has metrics (see my profile), rankings, a ‘newsfeed’ of composition, and it starts to tie relationships together of different users. There’s even an RSS feed of all the hyperlinks I put on my twitter account, I often share what I find interesting on that feed, so please consider subscribing.

You can check your stats too, it’s much like Technorati, but it maps out your social graph. I’m thankful to the following users for ‘giving me love’. martysmind (40), mickeleh (24), jspepper (21), dough (20), shashib (20), jagath (18), tetesagehen (17), tastybit (16), shawnz (16). For any of those folks, you can add them by going to www.twitter.com/PutNameHere.

Why is understanding who talks to me and vice versa crucial? considering you can see who influences me, and who I influence.

If you haven’t figured out Twitter yet, it’s a chat room, and knowledge and conversations are happening there before it hits blogs. In fact, even the press are getting stories by watching the conversation in Twitter. whether your job is to watch the conversation (many early adopters

in here) I recommend you follow some of the top posters. next when you’re ready to dive in, there’s by 400 other users that want to connect! Please note that tool isn’t for everyone, so figure out your objectives first.

If you haven’t done it yet, try these tools
Because of the API and RSS feeds, third party developers are experimenting with the output. True useful business tools haven’t really emerged, but it’s only year one.

1 Search for your grade, see who’s talking about you
2 TwitterVision is a map that shows the global conversations, interesting but low value. It would be great whether that could be segmented by role, topic, region, or industry.
3 TwitterBlocks shows a graphical representation of who your neighbors are, again, not certain of the value, although the interface certain is neat.
4 There’s by 100 applications available that have been created by the developer community. I’ve used Snitter, an Adobe air app, but it started to be a resource hog.
5 There’s already a twitter application in Facebook, or you can embed it on your blog, and considering I can update my explanation from my mobile phone, I’ve used it to meet up with humans.

Original post by jeremiah_owyang