Happy New Year!
To ease you into 2010 with a smile, Thoughtpick presents you with the fifth special episode (1, 2, 3, 4) of top 25 social media jokes, clips and cartoons!
Use the comments below to let us know your favorite!
Apart for the Twitter avatar and background, what would influence your choice of people to follow on Twitter? How many Twitter users have you unfollowed due to their user names? What is the best method for companies to benefit from Twitter user names?
“No one cares anyway”… Right? Wrong! Take a look at the following comments:
@Kurd said “I have blocked people before based solely on their avatar or name, if it was offensive enough. Or if I’m following someone with, say, a puppy avatar with the user name “ILoveLife” but at some point they’ve changed their avatar and name to a spread-eagle model named “SexFrosting.”
Lois Arnando added, “Rather than background, I’m more concerned with the user name.”
I’m sure many of you out there would agree to what these two gentlemen had to say, and I’m 100% percent certain that you’ll have one story or another about bad or annoying experiences with at least one of your followers’ user names!

First Impression Matters...
How much of Twitter’s trending topics are polluted by spam? How many Twitter verified accounts are there? Have you ever thought of reaching Twitter utopia: a spam-free Twitter where information and knowledge sharing are the main purposes for using Twitter? Is Twitter doing enough to protect us from spam? Would you like to find all the top 5 solutions to cutting down on Twitter spam in one place?

No Spam!
Thoughtpick is here to save the day!
While reading the post about Twitter closing down thousands of spam accounts, I found that it would be interesting and very beneficial if I researched the web to present you with the top 5 methods and applications which could help Twitter users cut down on incoming spam and better enjoy their overall Twitter experience.
A few months ago, “Thoughtpick” the company was established with our main objectives being to blog, be active in social media channels and then create mini (or “scrappy”) Web projects.
Tweepi is a simple collection of Twitter tools; each tool is designed to make a certain aspect of your Twitter experience and interactions simpler and more enjoyable!
We created Tweepi out of our own need for some of these scripts. We’re constantly looking to follow quality tweeples, and trying to unfollow deadbeat users. We simply want to do more on Twitter in less time!
Tweepi has 4 tools so far, with more to come:
1. Geeky Follow Utility: follow active and sociable users with the same interests as yourself
There are too many people out there using Twitter for an infinite variety of reasons and to share a wide collection of topics ranging from business, to cooking, dancing, technology and so on. The most common way to find and add people with the same interests as you, is to find a popular tweeple within your area of interest, say “@mashable” or “@techcrunch” for technology news, and add people who follow these known users.
This tool helps you filter these people - the geeky way, with numbers in a table – based on their activity and sociability, and follow only quality twitterers.