My Favourite Twitter Tools

Twitter is… well a revolution and to use Twitter effectively – like a pro – a few extra tools are needed to make your Twitter experience easier, more like marketing (because it is trackable), searchable, quicker and simple. These are a few of my favourite Twitter tools and why:

• Seesmic – if you don’t know about Seesmic you are missing out on one of the easiest ways to stay on Twitter even while you are working. Seesmic is a desktop application that sits on your computer updating the latest Tweets from your friends, so your Twittering can continue even while you work. Just click back and forth, add a tweet when you feel the urge and keep up with your friends the easiest way I know. Now with integrated Twitter Lists.
• SocialOomph – Now this little baby will make your day, do you want to tweet 24 hours a day to make sure you let the whole world know you are there? Well you might get a little tired without a tool like TweetLater – it allows you to schedule your tweets, it even saves favourite tweets so you don’t have to type them again – just click on a saved tweet and hit send! TweetLater can do so much more, like follow people who follow you, unfollow those who unfollow you, or allow you to ‘vet’ your new followers before following, basically it allows you to automate a lot of the time consuming stuff you find yourself doing with Twitter freeing up your time for more important things – like tweeting. This is one you can’t do without! ** Today they announced that you can now do it all with Facebook too!
• Twhirl – now this desktop application is a little like TweetDeck except it allows you to Tweet from more than one Twitter profile at a time, much smaller than TweetDeck but still very useful for those who have more than one account. I use it when I am Twittering for clients accounts.
• Twitter Search – invaluable if you are looking for people using your keywords on Twitter, or for people tweeting on a particular topic.
• Twitpic – Easy photo and image sharing on Twitter, upload your pic and tweet it right into your Twitter stream for all to see.
• Tweetizen – easy groups for twitterers, that says it all – a place where you can create or join groups around your favourite topic.
• The Twitterhood – great little Twitter directory begun by my friend @linnetwoods a lovely lady who lives on a boat currently moared in Spain, she runs the regular Twitterquiz and has created this directory for Twitterers. If you think it is not worthwhile, please not this lady has over 20,000 followers! (To get into the Directory just DM her and ask for some ’space’ on the Twitterhood.)
• Twellow – great directory for Twitter – a must for any business! List yourself under your keywords (up to 10) for all the world to see, Great SEO by the way.
• TwitterCounter – Need stats, TwitterCounter is where you will want to be, As it says it is the Ultimate Twitter Stats counter. Just pop in your Twitter username and you get numbers, graphs and more (hint: try putting in someone elses username to see if they are worth following.
• Klout.com Another really good Tracker for your clout on Twitter, yells you whether you are an influencer, what your score is and how many people are likely to ‘listen’ to your recommendations.
• ePenis – now this one is just to make you laugh – more stats -  essentially it measures your influence on Twitter, just type in your username to see your penis grow (Guys love this one – I wonder why???)

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