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| | by David Jackson
December 02, 2009 |
Like millions of other Twitter users, I use Twitter as a serious business tool,
to enhance my business interests. But I also enjoy using Twitter for the fun
aspect that is inherent in its DNA.
Let's face it, Twitter is a lot of fun! And it has spawned an entire
industry of amazing Twitter tools that are not only fun - but can also help you
maximize the power of Twitter, as well as enhance your business
interests.
Following are 32 Fun and Useful Twitter Tools. Enjoy!
Backtype.com is a real-time conversational search engine that helps users
find, follow and share comments from blogs, social networks and other social
media. Very, very cool.
CureCRM is a Twitter CRM (Customer Realationship Management) tool. It works
on your desktop and gives you the ability to automatically record email
conversations into salesforce cases, contacts, opportunities, and leads entries.
It also schedules meetings, manages your calendar, and reminds colleagues to
attend meetings.
This is my favorite Twitter tool. It tells you who you're following who's
not following you back. This tool allows you to stay on top of your unfollows,
as well as "trim your Twitter fat", so to speak.
4. Featured Users
featuredUsers.com
Featured Users is a Twitter application ad network. It appears to be
affiliated with the aforementioned Friend or Follow. Here's how it works: When
you purchase impressions, your Twitter profile is displayed on the Twitter
applications in the Featured Users network.
The more impressions you purchase, the more often your profile is
displayed.
It actually looks pretty cool. I haven't tried this one yet, but
I'm seriously thinking about it.
They also have a user referral program that will allow you to make money
when you refer customers to their program.
Geofollow bills itself as "The Largest Location Based Twitter Directory on
The Net." GeoFollow allows you to list yourself geographically, and
categorically, simply by sending a twitter reply. Pretty cool.
GoTwitr is a Twitter referral service. However, what makes GoTwitr
different from other Twitter referal services is the fact GoTwitr gives you the
ability to preview in detail everyone you follow or unfollow.
That way, your community will be made up of people who actually share your
interests.
HootSuite is yet another free professional Twitter client. Here are some of
the functions that HootSuite performs: Manages multiple Twtitter accounts,
tracks how many people click the links you tweet out, pre-schedules your
messages, submits your blog feed to Twitter and more.
Billed as "The evolution of TwitterBerry," OpenBeak is mobile client for
posting updates to Twitter. It works over the data network, so you don't need to
use SMS. OpenBeak is the evolution of TwitterBerry, and the new name allows the
app to grow beyond both the Twitter platform and BlackBerry
smartphones.
PeopleBrowsr is a real time data mine and social search engine. It allows
you to monitor your brand, manage feedback, share accounts, run campaigns, track
keywords, build widgets and engage across multiple social networks
simultaneously.
Ping.fm is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables
users to post to multiple social networks simultaneously. This is a really great
tool!
Qwitter is a Twitter tool that notifies you when you get un-followed.
Qwitter checks your followers and notifies you as often as it can, depending on
how many people are using it and how many followers they have.
Now here's what's really cool about Qwitter. Not only will it alert you as
to who is no longer following you, but it will also show you the tweet you
posted that (may or may not) have caused the person to unsubscribe. Very
useful.
Seesmic Desktop is a Twitter client and desktop app which allows you to
view multiple accounts in one window. Not only will you be able to view multiple
accounts, you will be able to view the window in columns (similar to
Tweetdeck).
SocialOomph is a free Twitter tool that lets you set your tweets to be sent
at specific time intervals, track keywords, automatically send welcome direct
messages (DM's)to new followers, purge your direct messages and more.
Ever heard of Google Trends? Well, Trendistic is similar to that.
Trendistic is a tool that allows you to track trends on Twitter, similarly to
what Google Trends does for Google searches. It gathers tweets as they are
posted, filters redundant ones and compiles the rest into one-hour
intervals.
TwitterMail is a service for users of Twitter that allows them to redirect
email to their twitter account.
Here's how it works: When you give TwitterMail your Twitter credentials
they supply you with a unique TwitterMail email address. For instance, abc123example@twittermail.com.
If you send an email to that address it will be posted to Twitter.com (By the
way, that's a fake Twittermail address, so don't use it). If you're a Firefox user, this one's for you. Twitbin is a Firefox
extension that allows you to keep up with all of your Twitter conversations
right from your browser sidebar. Twitbin allows you to send messages, receive
messages, share links, and more. Great Firefox extension!
Supporting a cause? Twibbon allows you to promote your cause through
Twitter. Twibbon overlays a small icon onto supporters’ profile images to create
a 'Twibbon', making an impactful online statement. The user’s Twitter account
automatically tweets to let everyone know about their affiliation.
If you're an article marketer like I am, you're going to love this tool.
TweetMeMe is a retweet button for website and blog publishers who want to
encourage viral activity of their content on Twitter.
The button shows a live count of the number of times your content has been
tweeted. I love this tool!
TweetDeck is your personal social networking dashboard for staying in touch
with what’s happening now on Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and other social
networking sites. In fact, you can do so many things with TweetDeck, you are
limited only by your imagination.
Twitterfeed allows you to publish updates from any RSS feed to your Twitter
account. You then have the ability to decide how frequently you want Twitterfeed
to check your feed updates and how many updated articles to post to
Twitter.
As its name suggests, Twitpic allows you to share photos on Twitter. You
can post pictures to TwitPic from your phone, their API, or through the Twitpic
site itself.
If you have a lot of Twitter followers and want to show them off, you'll
find this is an interesting tool. TwitterCounter is a statistics tool which
allows you to display the number of Twitter followers you have on your blog.
It will also display whether your followers are increasing or decreasing.
The service also has a Twitter Remote widget that you can add to your blog
sidebar for more interaction with your followers.
Want to know who has the most followers on Twitter? Then Twitterholic is
the tool for you. But Twitterholic goes one step further, not only does it allow
you to see who has the most followers, it also allows you to check your own
ranking in the Twitter universe. Great tool!
Twellow is a directory of public Twitter accounts. It features hundreds of
categories and search features to help you find people in specific niches.
Here's how it works: Twellow grabs publicly available messages from
Twitter. Twellow then analyzes and categorizes each of the users responsible for
those messages into the various categories found on its website.
Twaitter is a tool that allows team accounts, scheduled tweets, RSS
integration, tweet calendar and more.
Twibes is an interesting Twitter tool that allows you to find groups of
people who share your common interests.
TwitterLocal is an Adobe AIR based application that allows you to filter
Tweets by location. You can generate an RSS or XML feed, which allows you to
receive Tweets from a specified area, including city, state, postal code and
mile radius.
TweetBrain is a crowdsourcing service powered by the Twitter community. It
enables you to get quality answers to your Twitter questions quickly - sort of
like Yahoo Answers for Twitter users. Very cool.
Tweetvisor is a web-based, multi-column Twitter interface that enables
users to better manage multiple Twitter accounts. Tweetvisor returns real-time
updates about favorite topics, news and tweets - plus, much, much more.
Nice!
TwitterFox is Firefox web browser plugin that TwitterFox is a Firefox
extension that notifies you of your friends' tweets on Twitter. This extension
adds a tiny icon on the status bar which notifies you when your friends update
their tweets.
It also has a small text input field to update your tweets. In addition,
TwitterFox allows you to view Tweets within your own web browser, in a popup
menu. This is extremely convenient and eliminates the need to constantly go to
the Twitter website.
This is a popular WordPress plugin that display tweets from a Twitter
account in the sidebar of your blog. It is without question the easiest way to
add Tweets to Wordpress.
Sideline is an Adobe AIR desktop application that allows users to create
and group custom queries by topics of interest.
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