Tracking Your Twitter Contacts with BatchBook (and Remembering Who They Are!)
- Posted August 25th, 2008
- Filed under: How We Do It, Social Media, Using BatchBook
Update: When you import your Twitter contacts into BatchBook, be sure to put the username inside a Feed Reader SuperTag field. That way we’ll show you the last three tweets on their contact detail page (also works with any other kinds of feeds). See more about the Feed Reader SuperTag.
As Michelle wrote last week, we’re Twitter fans at BatchBlue. I love that Twitter is so simple, but I find myself wishing I could better track information about my Twitter contacts. For example, I’m following enough people now that I don’t remember why I started following a lot of them in the first place. I know BatchBook is a great way to track contacts, so I’ve been looking for the best way to get my Twitter contacts into BatchBook.
Mike Gunderloy recently wrote a post about a service called Tweetake over at Web Worker Daily. The service exports your Twitter friends, followers, tweets, or all the above to a CSV for backup. While “backup” may be the intended purpose, I immediately though “import”. As in… Import into BatchBook!
So, the steps are:
