On Large Twitter Follows

Recently I was followed by someone on Twitter who had the following statistics:

This is quite a large amount of tweeting and this person seems to follow a lot of people.

What is the point in following that number of people on Twitter?

If each of those accounts tweets just once a day, that is an average of 48 tweets per minute. Now, I am not the fastest reader in the world. But it strikes me as impossible that this person is actually reading any of the tweets of the people they are following.

What's also interesting is the nearly 190,000 tweets. At this rate of production, it is even less likely that this person is listening.

Does this person understand that the social part of Social Networking means engaging with people. Talking yes, but also listening and responding are all part of that engagement.

I don't think I will be following this account.

What do you think of accounts like this on Twitter?

Relevenz 2 hits the app store

Just before Christmas, Apple approved the new version of Relevenz in the App Store, after a lot of work over the last few months.

This MVP contains two really important changes from our first app, launched earlier in 2012.

1. Integration with the calendar in the phone

Much of the feedback we received about version 1 of the app centred on the fact that the events people set up in Relevenz were not synchronised with their existing calendar. In retrospect, this should have been obvious.

Version 2 uses the same calendar database in the phone so any events you add to Relevenz will also be added to your phone's calendar. This has the added benefit that it will also be synchronised with any server/cloud storage you use with your calendar.

It also means that you can now use Relevenz as a normal calendar app.

However, in order to make this work, we had to make one huge change.

2. Relevenz is now a native app

The original app was developed in JavaScript wrapped up in PhoneGap. This meant we were able to launch both iPhone and Android versions at the same time. However, there is no easy way to get at the calendar information using this technology.

In August, we made the decision to convert the app to a native app to take advantage of the calendar API.

There are definite benefits to going with a native app. The user interface is much more responsive and the screen transitions are much smoother.

We've also added in support for images in the calendar so that you can quickly identify who owns what event.

But the big downside is that we've had to remove the Android version from the Play store.

So if you've got an iPhone, please check out the new version and let us know what you think!

http://itunes.apple.com/app/id508741296

P.S. A special thanks go out to the beta test group for all their patience and feedback. You're great!