Tips and Tools on how to use Twitter

by Sante J. Achille on March 4, 2009 · 4 comments

Twitter

Last update: May 1, 2011

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The number of sites out there with great applications you can use to improve your Twitter capability and reach increases every day.

Here is a short list of interesting twitter sites – enjoy !

The Twitter Guide Book

A guide for Twitter Newbies

Essential Twitter Tools for the PR Professional

Muck Rack – Online Press Release Service

Twitter Search

Twitter Netiquette

Twitter Backgrounds

Twitter Clients

  • Syrinx
    fully customizable twitter client designed for Leopard (OS X 10.5+)
  • hootsuite
    the professional twitter client: tweet the love !
  • TwitterFox
    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. Also it has a small text input field to update your tweets.
  • Twitter Bar
    Post to Twitter from your address bar with Firefox based Browsers
  • TweetDeck
    For the Twitter enthusiasts
  • Twittergadget
    web 2.0 style client for Twitter.com, submit status updates to Twitter via your iGoogle homepage or Gmail Account

Twitter Tools

  • Twitter Vote Report
  • iTwitter tag for iGoogle
  • Twitpic
    Share photos on Twitter
  • Twitten Secrets
    by Dan Hollings
  • TwitWall
    When its too long to tweet, just TwitWall it! TwitWall is the easy-to-use, quick-to-blast-out, instant blog companion for Twitter
  • Twellow
    helps you fond people to follow on Twitter
  • TweetValue
    How much is your Twitter profile worth ?
  • Twistory
    Twitter + History: Add your Twitter backlog feed to your favorite calendar application and browse through your personal Twitter diary, making your Twitter history both fun and useful!
  • Qwitter
    Catching Twitter quitters: Qwitter e-mails you when someone stops following you on Twitter with a message
  • Twitterel
    By using Twitterel.com on top of Twitter.com you can make your (virtual) life a lot more interesting, we thought of a way to connect to other twitter users (from all over the world) who share the same interests as you do…
  • Filttr
    There are times when you would like to cut out the chirping and just focus on what is important. Filttr makes it easy for you to do just that. This “super intelligent bird” understand what interests you, and only fetch you the tweets they think you’ll want to see
  • Monitter
    Real Time Live Twitter monitor, Twitter Widget
  • Tweet Later
    Tools to Boost Your Productivity on Twitter
  • Hashtweeps
    Find Twitter users by hash terms
  • Twist
    See trends in Twitter
  • Twitterfeed
    Feed your blog to twitter – post RSS to twitter automatically
  • Split Tweet
    Twitter Multi Account and Brand Manager
  • Tweetburner
    Track links you share on twitter and friendfeed
  • Tinker
    Follow live conversations from Twitter and Facebook on Tinker.com
  • OneRiot
    Find the pulse of the web
  • Topsy
    A Search Engine powered by Tweets
  • Future Tweets
    Schedule a tweet
  • Twuffer
    Tweet scheduling
  • yfrog
    Upload images and video you wish to share on twitter – offers automatic login with your twitter account and creation of an email to use for uploads: mail to your account, upload in real time. Offers an iPhone clint too
  • Klout
    The Standard for Online and Internet Influence. Plug in your Twitter username and discover your influence. The scores range from 0 to 100 with higher scores representing a wider and stronger sphere of influence. Klout uses over 25 variables to measure True Reach, Amplification Probability, and Network Score. The size of the sphere is calculated by measuring True Reach (engaged followers and friends vs. spam bots, dead accounts, etc.). Amplification Probability is the likelihood that messages will generate retweets or spark a conversation. If the user’s engaged followers are highly influential, they’ll have a high Network Score.
  • Twitter Lists to RSS
    How to create an RSS feed you can read in your favorite Reader
  • Refollow (*) <–NEW!!
    Refollow helps you discover, manage, and protect your Twitter social circle. (Manage your Friends and Followers, Group by Relationships, Sort by Importance, Explore Twitter Social Graph, Discover Relevant Users, Filter Irrelevant Users, Follow/Unfollow/Block, Crowd Tagging and Comments, Lock Relationships)

Using Twitter

Other Twitter Resources

Making Money on Twitter

  • Magpie
  • RevTwt
    Revenue from Tweets – gives you links to post on your Twitter account

Twitter for Fun

  • Tweet Nuts
    How big are your Twitter Nuts ?
  • Cursebird
    What the f#@& is everyone swearing about ?

{ 2 comments }

Nick March 5, 2009 at 09:17

Great collection of links you have here. My wife loves using Twitter and I think she will enjoy checking these links out. Thanks for the post!

Steven Chambers September 3, 2010 at 10:55

excellent resource for all level of tweeter user. Being new at tweeting it is going to help me start. A little overwhelming!

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