Twitter Karma

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The concept of karma is the idea of ​​getting something back for something you've done, appropriate to whether it was good or bad. If you do good things, you get good karma, and if you have good karma, good things will happen to you. Now how does that apply to the social networking / microblogging system known as Twitter? Twitter Karma is one of many Twitter apps, which are applications meant to work with Twitter.

The Twitter.com website does not really provide ways to filter or sort one's follower list, which can be more than a little annoying if you have many followers. Looking for one particular person among your followers that you want to tweet can be a hassle. Sometimes this will make you feel like purging your follower list of those followers whom you are not particularly connected with. Twitter Karma offers a solution to this.

Twitter Karma is a Web browser-based application made with Flash by Dossy Shiobara. It accesses your followers list in Twitter, and checks which people you are following, which people are following you, and which are the people with whom you have a mutual following, then you can sort or filter them. It is not meant to be an application for sending tweets, since there are many of those already. What it does allow you to do is to follow and unfollow users from your Twitter account.

In Twitter lingo, to follow means "to subscribe to updates of", meaning that if you are following someone, you are receiving their tweets as they post them. The thing is connections in Twitter are not necessarily two-directional. You can follow someone but they might not follow you, or someone could be your follower but not someone you are following. Twitter Karma analyzes your connections and presents them in an easy-to-navigate graphical interface.

Armed with the new information presented, you can then manage your Twitter account more efficiently. You can delete your followers whom you do not particularly care for en masse, or set up follower connections with some of those who are already your followers. This is where the karma concept comes in: if someone has done nothing for you, then you can delete them, while you can connect with those that you do like. These are basic operations on Twitter.com, but there it is done one target user at a time, making these tasks more than a little tedious.

Since Twitter Karma requires your username and password, as well as accesses your Twitter list, you might be concerned about your privacy and the security of the application. Its creator has assured us that the application never stores information and only acts as an interface between you and Twitter.com. The username and password are passed directly to the Twitter servers using your web browser's authentication protocols, so Twitter Karma does not actually have access to your security information. This application was designed and implemented using the Twitter application programming interface, or API, and is as secure as the creators of the Twitter API intended.

The features of Twitter Karma make using Twitter even easier and more fun. Whether such features will become available by default remains to be seen.

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Source by David Perdew