Mengetahui tingkat influence tweet di twitter dengan TweetLevel

Untuk mengetahui tingkat pengaruh tweet kamu di twitter dapat menggunakan TweetLevel. Situs Tweetlevel ini dikelola oleh lembaga Public Relation Edelman.

Untuk mengetahui skor akun twitter, caranya cukup masukkan akun twitter kamu di kotak sebelah kiri, kemudian klik calculate.

Tinggi rendahnya skor bukan ditentukan oleh banyaknya follower tapi berdasarkan beberapa faktor yaitu influence (

Shop of the Week - FrostedTreats

The Etsy Twitter Shop of the Week is FrostedTreats, featuring the creations of Jessica Mount. Since 2008, she's used polymer clay to make delicious looking cupcakes, cakes, cookies, pea pods, roses...and the occasional pig in an ice cream cone! While most of the tiny sculptures are wearable charms, Jessica has expanded her product line to include general accessories: bookmarks, push pins, magnets, etc.

For inspiration, Jessica collects photos, mostly from the Internet, of a variety of items: flowers, cakes, owls, fortune cookies, teapots, butterflies (and a few of her brother's pick up truck, though she's not quite sure how they got in there!) Always open to new ideas, when someone says "Oh! You should make..." she adds it to her list!

About her work, Jessica says "Since clay is my medium, the possibilities of what I can create are only limited by my own imagination. That is why I LOVE custom orders. I love having someone ask for something abstract and being able to say, "Yup! I can do that!" The only greater feeling is when they receive the finished product."

Jessica's goal this year is to continue expanding her product line. She says "Even though I love the idea of wearing a little cupcake around my neck or strawberries dangling from my ears, not everyone is into that sort of fashion statement. I've been working on creating more gift-able items...that way everyone can enjoy a little extra treat without worrying if the color of their frosting matches the rest of their outfit!"

In addition to her Etsy shop, Jessica will be showing her creations at a few craft fairs and market tables through the fall in preparation for the holiday season. She's been sketching out some holiday ornaments and...listening to her customers who are looking for gifts to give, that has defined her holiday focus. Look forward to all these new creations in FrostedTreats over the coming weeks!

Jessica has found that Twitter is her main form of bringing traffic to her Etsy shop "Since I started tweeting about my handmade crafts (as well as cross-promoting for things that catch my eye!) my sales and traffic have been phenomenal!" Her advice: "Tweet others the way you would like to be tweeted! If you see something that catches your eye, tweet about it! Having someone else gush over your work is so much more rewarding than gushing over your own projects. Make connections. Build friendships and networks with crafters like yourself and with people whose talents amaze you!"

Jessica's creativity is matched only by her enthusiasm!


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Visit FrostedTreats in all these places:
Etsy Shop: http://frostedtreats.etsy.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/frostedtreats
Facebook: http://facebook.com/frostedtreats
Blog: http://frostedtreats.blogspot.com
Written by Judy of WellspringCreations

FoxyGknits Makes the Etsy Teams Email!

Recently Etsy held an informal contest for Etsy Teams to create themed Treasuries. We are pleased as punch to announce that one of our own members' Treasuries were featured in the Etsy Finds email last week!

FoxyGknits created this gorgeous Treasury titled "The Last Rose of Summer". Alas, it is beginning to be the time of year where that is going to happen.

Congrats, Lois, for being chosen! You do so much for the Etsy Twitter Team and we are glad you got some well deserved recognition from Etsy!

Click the image above to visit the Treasury to pass out some click and comment love!

Where to find Lois from FoxyGknits:

Etsy: foxygknits.etsy.com
Blog: foxygknits.com
Twitter: @foxygknits
Facebook: facebook.com/foxygknits

- Vickie Porter
In My Head Studios

Shop of the Week - yarncoture

This week the Etsy Twitter Team is featuring yarncoture, the Etsy shop of Maryum Karim. Maryum is a knit/crochet accessories designer who makes an entire line of knit and crochet sweaters, hats, shrugs, scarves, brooches, spa items, and in the near future, perhaps, even bedding and home decor items!

The designs of yarncoture are aimed at customer comfort and satisfaction. Maryum offer a wide range of products and price points to accommodate every preference and be attractive to any budget. Maryum adds, "I also specialize in custom work to provide my customers with a "haute-couture" boutique experience...there's always going to be something special that a man or woman would like to own in their wardrobe and the experience of creating something special for someone is truly...rewarding".

Looking through her shop, it's not surprising that Maryum delights in using the finest materials and trying out new stiches and techniques. And inspiration? She says "Anything can inspire me..a strong personality, a beautiful vintage button, some soft fluffy yarn...anything! I can see a specific person or a specific group of materials and I will try to create around those things to fashion together something extraordinary."

Keep an eye on yarncoture for new designs for the Fall/Winter 2019-2011 season! Maryum is halfway to her goal of 300 sales this year and she's hoping the winter season will bring in lots of sales...and very satisfied repeat customers!

Maryum uses Twitter in a way reminiscent of fine shopkeepers by greeting everyone, talking a little bit about what she's working on, responding to other people's tweets of interest, and maybe tweet about some of the items in her Etsy shop. She believes that keeping her virtual shelves stocked with new and unique items is what brings sales to her shop...and that great customer service results in wonderful word-of-mouth advertising!


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Check out yarncoture through these venues!
Etsy: http://www.yarncoture.etsy.com
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/yarncoture
Blog: http://www.yarncoture.blogspot.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/HandKnitsbyYarncoture

..and how about her latest Fall Collection video?!

Written by Judy of Wellspring Creations

Shop of the Week - inmyheadstudios

Our Etsy Twitter Team Shop of the Week is inmyheadstudios featuring altered mixed-media domino and game piece jewelry, microscope slide glass pendants, ACEOs (Art Cards Editions and Originals) by the talented Vickie Porter.

In describing her work, Vickie puts it best "I have a seriously good/bad relationship with perfectionism so my customers can rest assured they are getting top quality materials and artwork. It’s sometimes hard to tell in photos online, but the dominoes and microscope slide glass pendants have real tiny paper collages on them. I work with ridiculously small pieces of paper sometimes.

"My new line of archival prints on my domino jewelry has allowed me to reach new levels of detail for such a tiny canvas. I have been creating larger mixed media collage work in the same proportions as the dominoes. I scan and print them out in wood domino size, which is 1 3/4 inches x 7/8 inches. I usually add another layer of detail to the little collage to make the domino special."

For such a variety of beautiful and intricate results, Vickie gets her inspiration from colors, lines, and shapes (basically everything). "I simply have to create or I’m not happy. It’s like needing air." It follows that Vickie is not confined by rules, but lets her inspiration and creativity have full rein. While she may not stick to one medium, she admits, "Central to almost everything I do is paper. I love paper."

For the upcoming seasons, Vickie plans to show her work at as many shows as she can fit into her schedule. She has big holiday plans, however to add domino Christmas tree ornaments and admits to having a "couple other things up my sleeve"...so we have some holiday surprises to look forward to in her etsy shop!

Vickie is happy to take custom orders and ships internationally, too!

On the business side, Vickie is adept at Twitter (via TweetDeck) and recommends the team to "Engage! Talk. Share! Provide quality content. Comment on links posted. Retweet. Actually, I rarely tweet about my shop. I probably should tweet it more. I get irritated with Etsy sellers who only tweet their shop links. Tell me about you and what is important to you. Let me get to know you. What excites you about your work? I’m way more likely to buy from you that way."

Tweeting links can be time-consuming to research, but Vickie has a tip to share! "One of my tricks is using Google Reader to find quality content to share. I have a feed set up for the keyword “creativity”. So every morning I have a big shiny new list of articles about creativity, which is a subject I really like to read about. When I read really good articles, I tweet them. Providing this kind of content gets me retweeted a lot and that in turn gets my name out there."

For bringing traffic to inmyheadstudios, Vickie has this tip to share: Connect "with people online in a combination of places– Twitter, Facebook, Ning sites. You have to talk about you or no one else will be talking about you. Get out there! All The Universe asks is that you show up."



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Etsy Shop: http://inmyheadstudios.etsy.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/inmyheadstudios
Blog: http://inmyheadstudios.blogspot.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/InMyHeadStudios
flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/inmyheadstudios
Written by Judy of WellspringCreations

Road Blocked

The Hospital, a channel 4 documentary which focused on knife crime in North London left me a tearful speechless wreck. Like the participants I struggled to understand why this was happening and how it all began and so I racked my brains until my head hurt.

“We are all destined to die, if it happens it happens” these are the words of Daniel a 16 year old boy who was knifed in the heart and survived. He had multiple organ failure and within 6 weeks had received 9 operations. His words shocked me but he echoes the mentality of the majority of young boys today, which is disturbing as it cheapens the gift of life.

Whilst death is inevitable no one deserves to die with fear in their eyes and heart. A life cut short in this way is murder. The growing numbers of people who have died since the wave of knife crimes were not destined to die in this way, many hadn’t even lived. Life is precious and on the streets of London it is being taken away in a blink of an eye with the glint of a blade. For what? What are they fighting for?

Respect is a word banded about so much that it has now lost its meaning, they are doing everything but respecting people, others and themselves. Plus this talk of post code turf war is absolutely absurd. These boys, young men, in gangs are killing each other because others have dared to enter into a place where they reside, which they must fight for and protect. Erm... what are they protecting exactly? London is so small you could be on a road that is one postcode one minute, turn left and be in another area the next.

It’s like something out of a wild life documentary by David Attenborough who observes that the un-expecting prey is pounced upon by a pack of lions, as it dared to enter their domain. But this is people we are talking about. Are we not meant to be more intelligent as we have a conscious, a higher sense of reasoning and a life that extends beyond day to day survival? For some evidently not made clear by Taurean, a 22 year old stabbed in a fight who gave a personal insight into what is happening in his area, the result being “Hackney is the centre of my universe.”

At this point I was incensed with anger, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and Rosa Parks, to name a few fought so hard to allow us to have greater freedom and right now, black boys feel trapped by numbers, letters, concrete and fear. We have gone backwards and I feel while they are turning in their graves, the BNP and Klu Clux Clan have their feet up with smiles on their faces.

Asked to shed light on why this is happening Taurean is just as baffled. If those directly involved or affected by this nonsense can’t explain why they are doing it, or why it is occurring then how can we as adults, provide help and guidance? So many bleat about how hard done by in life they are, yet they are the ones who have created these rules which have now become both their mental and physical prisons. Or have they? To understand this postcode restriction and random attacks, which is gang related, looking back to southern Los Angeles street gangs, the Crips and Bloods seems naively obvious.

These two violent street gangs began in 1969 between predominately African-Americans and Hispanics, both active and highly successful in the drug trade. New members were recruited by their environment, which were predominately poor African-American communities often of school age. Gang membership offered a sense of belonging, protection and immediate gratification to the economically disadvantaged youth, who equated gang life to gold Jewellery, cash, nice cars and expensive sports clothes.

The Crips adopted the colour blue for their clothing and Bloods red to identify and differentiate themselves. "Cuzz," short for cousin was the greeting term adopted by the Crips in greeting each other, whilst the Bloods used “Blood” as a symbol for their gang family. All gang members were identified by a nickname, AKA or street name, which usually gave an insight into their psychological perspective of themselves.

There are evidently clear similarities with gangs in the UK! Fascinated by American culture perhaps this is where all this stems from. From as early as I can remember it was said that Britain was 10 years behind America. Well it is now on our doorstep in all its self-fulfilling prophecy glory. As gangs in America are supposedly dying out, it is rapidly growing here. Apparently there are 36 gangs operating in the borough of Lambeth alone!

The senseless killings are about gaining “stripes” projecting a “bad man” exterior coupled with “I’ll get you before you get me” This is not a spaghetti film or a music video. There is no director that will shout “cut” signalling them to wake up from their collapsed position and wipe away the fake blood. Unfortunately the reality may come too late for some. A young decision, an action or reaction can have lifetime consequences.

Whilst emulation has occurred due to the glorification of gang life in films and music, I am still left contemplating as to whether there are more reasons. What is it that makes an experience elsewhere, resonate so much here? Is it identification with wanting more? The socio-political unbalance? Or the immediate identification with people who are of the same colour? I came across a trailer called Crips and Blood: Made in America, a documentary narrated by Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker, revealing the modern-day gang life: the turf wars and territorialism, the inter-gang hierarchy, rules of behaviour, the culture of guns, death and dishonour. Within the 2 minutes 46 seconds, a respondent revealed that the Crips formed as a result of frustration and anger as a result of racism, discrimination and injustice: 

I thought further and remembered a quote by Alice Walker who said “Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate”. This notion of self hate coupled with the knowledge of racism and Internalized Oppression, a term coined by Black Psychologist Frantz Fanon which highlights the ongoing impact slavery; imperialism and colonisation have on the psychical levels, should be considered together for further exploration (I will attempt this in a future article). For now I ponder whether this is the frustrated powerless exercising what they deem to be power and control?

As Daniel looked at his family around him he broke down. Although he didn’t say much, the pain and fear in his eyes spoke volumes; he looked like a scared lost deer which was a horrible sight that triggered my tears to flow. The reality of what he had been through, the love and worry of his family surrounding him and the new and very real struggle back to recovery seemed to hit home in that one moment. Daniel upon facing death was glad and grateful to be alive and the hard words expressed earlier revealed themselves to be fake bravado, empty, selfish and valueless.

As well as the physical injuries Daniel and so many other survivors of knife crime and crime in general, must now also strive to overcome the psychological damage which is just as crippling. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is common amongst anyone who has been in a life threatening situation. PSTD is likely if the person has been exposed to a traumatic event in which both of the following were present:

“The person experienced, witnessed or was confronted with an event or events that involved actual or threatened death or serious injury, or a threat to the physical integrity of self or others. The person’s response involved intense fear, helplessness, or horror” (Scott et al., 1995, p.78).

Direct related signs of PTSD will include heart palpitations, anxiousness, distressing dreams; unpleasant and intrusive thoughts, disruptions of behaviour, fatigue, insomnia, irritability, and a return of fear. PTSD was first documented amongst war veterans but is now also associated with experiences such as child sexual abuse, rape, terrorist bombings, vehicle accidents, physical or emotional abuse and natural disasters such as earthquakes. The meaning and order of the world for survivors crumbles beneath them. Their sense of self worth, safety, stability and sense of control is compromised and shattered. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is considered to be the appropriate intervention for PTSD.

At this point my mind crossed over to the perpetrator. Yes, he plunged the knife in cold blood with no conscience or respect for life and ran off, not sticking around to hear the sirens and the chaos thereafter. So why should I, we care? The perpetrator would have smelt the fear, his own and his victims. Seen the blood, his own and/or his victims and as their eyes met in this surreal but very real situation of aggression, fake bravado and survival, will too have seen the mirrored truth, which he knows and feels in the reflected eyes of the other, FEAR!

As the perpetrator, the cause, but also the witness, PSTD is likely and I wonder how he deals with the memories at night and in the day? The psychological distress must be high as the potentiality of a mental health disorder. Two birds are killed with one stone. The perpetrator and victim are both scarred. There are no winners here!

The Hospital series is an eye opener as it directly voices the opinions of the issues that affect young people, giving an insight into their world view. Whilst my emotions and frustrations dipped and dived throughout, I acknowledge that this is what they are going through. This is what they know, all they know. This is what they are dealing with and they cannot see bigger or beyond the end of their road due to fear, attack and tunnel vision. So what do we do about it? What happens next? After all, we are the adults who can see that Hackney is not the centre of the universe.

Gangs and post code wars were perhaps structures built on top of the foundations of fear, pain, frustration and powerlessness, however these structures only serve to be visual, mental and physical road blocks to potential, self development and a future.

The reality of the situation needs to hit home to these youngsters and fast. Prisoners and reformed gang members need to directly show the way, as whilst this series is absolutely brilliant, I am convinced that those who needed to watch it for a wake up call, were out on the street...defending their area!

©2010 Lisa Bent

"Goin' on VACATION" Team Treasury

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Shop of the Week - MostFavoriteAunt

The Etsy Twitter Team’s Shop of the week is: MostFavoriteAunt, also known as Pamela Ziemlewicz. According to Pamela, the shop is full of “knits and flair,” from baby hats, coffee cup cozies and other knitted goods to pinback buttons—all adorable, all handmade, and “all me,” she says What inspires her? “I'm pretty sassy. Usually I'll make some smart-alec remark and then think, ‘Oooh, that would make a cool...’” What is her motivation? “I work a lot. At the end of a long day, I love turning on the boob-tube, and sitting down with some yarn and needles to relax.” Eventually, she’d like to turn her craft into her full-time endeavor and dreams of quitting her day job…maybe by 2011!

On the Twitter front, she offers this advice: “just tweet yourself”! She does this by tweeting about her three biggest hobbies: traveling, reading, and creating. She brings traffic and sales to her shop through her generosity: “Do it for a cause! The biggest traffic draws are items where proceeds go to charity. This scarf is a super-seller!

Her upcoming plans? “Fall and Winter are always BIG seasons for me. Lots of people buying warm fuzzies. Lots of cold and yucky days to spend inside creating.” Look for an increased and ever-changing inventory! Perfect timing for the holiday season to come!

This week MostFavoriteAunt is offering
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Please visit MostFavoriteAunt:
Etsy Shop: http://MostFavoriteAunt.ETSY.com
Twitter: http://Twitter.com/MostFavorite

Written by Judy of WellspringCreations