How To: See When Your Tweets Are Favorited, by RSS
Tweets on Twitter, you can favorite them - but do people take the time to? It turns out they do and someone's probably been favoriting Tweets from you, too. Favstar is a new service that tracks the most favorited tweets tweeted and finds some pretty funny stuff that way. The service will also tell you who's been favoriting your tweets though - and tonight it added RSS notification to its features.
That means you can now subscribe to an RSS feed showing you who likes your Tweets, even if they didn't reply, retweet or respond otherwise. That's interesting information to know.
It's very simple to do. Just visit Favstar.fm, search for your Twitter username, then select the "recent" tab. Once on that page, your browser will detect a feed for your otherwise silent friends. Or you could just cut to the chase and subscribe to a URL like this with your username in it: http://favstar.fm/users/marshallk/rss
Right now the feed doesn't display the usernames of the people who favorited your tweets, you'll have to click through a notification to visit the Favstar site to see that. The site's creator wants to give people a reason to come back, and that makes sense, but I sure would like to see those usernames in the feed.
I've put my Favstar feed into my favorite RSS to IM alert system, just because I think that's where it will work best for me. I might put it someplace else later, but I sure am glad to have it; it's nice to know who likes your Tweets.
Why is this useful? Well, I had no idea that widely respected PR pro Constantin Basturea was thinking about me until Favstar showed me that he favorited one of my recent tweets. We haven't exchanged words in months - but his thinking of me makes me think about him. I know now that I could reach out to him about the subject of that tweet or some other matter and I'd already have a place somewhere toward the front of his mind.
If it's funny Tweets you're looking for, make sure to visit the amazing automated funniest Tweet finder Favrd, too. Favstar, though, has something for everyone who's ever been favorited at all. Now with RSS it can become a regular part of your social media monitoring, instead of just a fun one-off thing you check once and forget about.
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That is pretty dang cool. I often mention my web usability analysis on Twitter, and it was surprising to see how many people had stared it when I did. Now I have a great way to see who is really interested in getting it to give them that extra nudge.
Rob, that's another way to use this for sure.
nice!
Posted by: .LAG liked that
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September 8, 2009 11:47 PM
your new retweet button has some issues : "http://tweetmeme.com/about/fail_invalid"
JacopoGio, thanks for the note but it seems to be working fine for me - I'm not sure how you're being sent to that URL.
It would have been kinda cool if you could have this as a program on your desktop. Only problem is the fear of being addicted to it :D
I recommend you to check favotter, a Japanese famous Twitter-related site that has a closer concept with Favster.
Sorry for bothering but let me leave links to favotter.
for English: http://favotter.matope.com/en/
for Japanese: http://favotter.matope.com/
Marshall, which "RSS to IM alert system" do you use?
Favstar? Next this would decide the status of a Twitter user. Twitter's golden ratio says about the stats of following and followers, now this Favstar would say that a Twitterer is best if more more tweets are favorited.
Motohiro How I can use favotter ?
Favotter is OK but only counts the favorites of the top 1000 or so favoriters on Twitter. Favstar is probably the most inclusive of all of them; it pretty much crawls everybody (and crawls people who sign in and follow @favstar more often).
Thanks for the link to favotter Motohiro. I just checked both sites and got the same results.
what a great concept, thanks for sharing! twitter(at)locspoc
Favstar.fm will be interesting for me to check out since i'm about to tweak my RSS function from my blog site. better tracking means more quality traffic!
As an avid TweetDeck fan, I find favoriting to be one of the features I utilize least. It's a two-click process involving very small drop-down menus... no thanks. While I do find it interesting to see who has favorited my tweets, I find retweeting still much more compelling for analysis and feedback.
I suppose Favstar is most useful to me for seeing what "mainstream" Twitter is enjoying!
+1 for George's Question: "which "RSS to IM alert system" do you use?"
Posted by: jeremyhanks.myopenid.com
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September 10, 2009 1:09 AM
Hey Marshall,
Your new retweet button has some issues I guess. Its redirecting me to "http://tweetmeme.com/about/fail_invalid"
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