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How to view the demographics of your Twitter followers

A couple of days ago, we showed you how to map out where your Twitter followers are located with TweepsMap. There's another service that not only maps your Twitter followers, but also analyzes their gender, profession, interests, and more.

The beta service, by Schmap, is called Know Your Twitter Followers. To get your free (when you send a tweet) summary analysis of your followers, go to the schmap.it Know Your Twitter Followers site and click on the "Tweet + Free Analysis" button.

After you authorize schmap.it to use your Twitter account, you'll be presented with … Read more

Put maps in your tweets with GeoTweeter

Something missing from many location-aware Twitter applications for iPhone is the option to stick a Web map into a tweet. Most simply change the home city in your Twitter profile and slap on some latitude and longitude coordinates. This is great if you feel like looking those up, but otherwise it's a less than ideal way to tell people where you are.

Schmap, the social-mapping service, has a new and free iPhone app out called GeoTweeter (not to be confused with GeoTweeter.com) that lets you do just that. You can broadcast your location on a map that gets … Read more

Optimize contact information for phones with Schmap

Map guide and platform company Schmap has a cool, free service that lets anyone put in a small, mobile phone-optimized contact information page on their site with just a line of code. This is in case you want to take information like your address, phone number, and e-mail address and improve the way it looks on mobile devices.

It shines on the iPhone, but has been set up to work with other smartphones, and provides a built-in map and shortcuts to call you up, with a small sticky note that goes on the top of your home page. When users … Read more