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16 Must Have Twitter Tools For Twitter Fanatics
on 21 December 2008 - 3,942 views
I have been very crazy about twitter recently and I am still working to find out how to maximise the potential of using Twitter. If you are a twitter fanatic like me now, here are 16 Twitter Tools that I highly recommend you to have. They compliment and help you make your twitter life ten folds better and easier. Here goes…
Wait, before you go on… Are you following me on Twitter already? If not, you should do so at http://twitter.com/peiprofit Thanks!
1) TwitterFox is a Firefox extension that notifies you of your friends’ status on Twitter and lets you make posts from your browser status bar. It also allows you to switch between multiple Twitter accounts in one click. This is my #1 must-have, deal-breaker, cannot live without Twitter plug-in.
2) Retweet This is an application designed for use with the Greasemonkey Firefox plug-in. It allows you to append a retweet button to the end of each Twitter entry to encourage your followers to retweet your posts.
3) Classify Twitter Users is a script that allows you to classify Twitter users and decide whether they are worth following based on their friends, followers and post ratios. Another Greasemonkey app, it’s a great tool to help you weed out the Twitter spammers and fan boys from the socially healthy.
4) TwittAd allows Twitter users to monetize their account by accepting advertising on the background image of their Twitter user profile. You decide the duration and price advertisers pay for exposure and get paíd for every hour you serve the ad.
5) TwitterCounter lets you add a daily updating TwitterCounter to your blog so everybody can see how popular you are by the number of persons following you.
6) TweetBeep is just like having Google Alerts for Twitter. It enables you to keep track of conversations that mention you, your products or your company via email. You can even keep track of who’s tweeting your website or blog. It’s a great tool for online reputation management and you don’t even have to be a Twitter user to benefit from it. TweetBeep is another one of my personal *must haves*.
7) Twitter Grader measures the reach and authority of a Twitter user, calculated by the pace of their updates, the completeness of their profile, their number of followers and the network power of those followers. Twitter Grader displays as a score out of 100 and is consistently updating and adapting as your Twitter account grows. Based on those grades, Twitter Grader lists the Twitter Elite globally and in each country, just like Technorati does for bloggers.
TwitPic, as the name suggests, is a photo sharing tool for Twitter. When logged in, it allows you to upload photos and post them with comments as a Tweet. It works with a range of Twitter clients such as Twitterific, Twhirl and MobileTwitter and stores all your photos in a single location with updated viewing stats. As far as Twitter image sharing goes, this is king for reliability.
9) Twuffer is a Twitter buffer. It allows Twitter users to compose a líst of future tweets, and schedule their release. Twuffer is ideal for making hourly, daily or monthly announcements or send post-dated birthday greetings or reminders to people about upcoming events. It’s also perfect if you’re the type of person who wants to give the impression that you don’t ever sleep.
10) Twistori One of the developers is Amy Hoy, one of my favorite speakers from Webstock 2008 and a goth geek to boot. Twistori is a social experiment that taps into the Twitter conversations revolving around life’s central activities: Love, Hate, Think, Believe, Feel, Wish. You can click on any of these emotions and witness a live feed of Tweets that use them. It’s voyeuristic and utterly compelling.
11) iTweet is another interface for Twitter. It has built-in auto-refresh, search and hash tags and features full follow, block and notifications features. Users can view and post user bio, location and URLs inline with their tweets. Another cool feature of iTweet is the ability to Retweet a user post with a single click.
12) Twitturly is a service for tracking what URLs people are talking about as they talk about them on Twitter. Similar to Digg, on Twitturly, people “vote” for a URL. The more votes it gets the better it ranks. If it does well enough, it gets promoted to the home page and as the votes rise it gets displayed higher up the home page. Twitturly differs from Digg in that instead of voting on their site, you vote by participating on Twitter. Each time that you send a link to your followers on Twitter, Twitturly takes a note of it and applies your vote to that URL. It’s a great way to follow the loudest global conversations.
13) Mr Tweet is another big favorite of mine. Similar to LinkedIn , it looks through your extended network and makes suggestions to help you build effective relationships on Twitter. For example, which of your followers should you be following in return? Who are the most influential people you should be following? Who are your followers following?
14) Twitter Search is Twitter’s own built-in and oft-overlooked search tool. You can use it to search for other Twitter users, keywords, hash tag topics and a range of cool shortcut items
15) FlipTitle is not surprisingly, a tool that enables you to flip text upside down. It’s great for Twitter because sometimes your tweets can get lost in the conversation. Using FlipTitle makes sure they get noticed.
16) Bit.ly is a very cool URL shortener that also includes click-thru statistics. Why is it perfect for Twitter? Because the length of the converted URLs is generally much shorter than other URL converters like TinyURL. When you are tweeting, space is premium as your whole post can only consist of 140 characters including spacing.
The other neat thing aspect of Bit.ly is that it keeps a record of clicks that your URLs received and where they originated from. It even provides a share button so you can re-tweet your URLs on Twitter or send them to friends on Facebook, Gmail or another email client.
Now that you have finished reading this, you know you have to follow me on Twitter to keep yourself updated in real time of what I am doing. You just can’t miss anything out.
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Wow Ben, you are a true blue twitter fanatic. Tell me with all the traffic coming through from twitter, is this targeted traffic and how’s the conversion rate from them. BTW I just followed you. Hope you will reciprocate:http://twitter.com/peterleehc
Peter Lee
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Hmm it has been a very good interaction for me because you can see some big names in my list as well. Traffic is coming in slowly but I am pretty sure they are targeted because they will only respond to your tweet and come here for a reason.
You are right Ben, I also use twitter and the traffic that comes to your blog should be targeted since its like putting an ad in adwords and only the real intersted ones will click on it, except this is a no cost.
Ben I have found that if you follow the followers of the big names like Brad Fallon,Rich Schefren, Andy Jenkins, Frank Kern, Jeff Johnson , etc, they tend to return the favor faster than just following unknown guys, of course I also follow anyone even if they are just begining and have no many followers, but if the ratio of following and followers it is almost the same then there is a lot of chances that guy will follow you back and you will get a new follower.
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Hi Ben,
Wow, I didn’t even know twitter could do all that. By the way Im following you on twitter http://www.twitter.com/monsterblog.
Ben Which plugins do you use in wordpress? Next articles on that would be great.
My Tip for your readers for today will be:
make money selling infoproduct on the internet:
Two most important rules and systme you must follow are:
1)Acquire a Product to sell
2)Promote, Promote and more Promote…
Im going to tell you all how I promote the products I Acquire. I am new to this internet business but im slowly and surely earning nice income which I don’t like to brag about.
So here I go…
Forum Marketing
The first method that you’ll use is called forum marketing.
The reason why you want to use forum marketing is because it’s free and you can target the correct or right market you want to sell your info product. Moreover, almost anyone who can write can participate in online forums.
By now, I’m assuming that you’ve already set up your product details like clickbank id and you have the product website with order links ready for people to buy this product from you. So, the next thing to do is look for a few active, highly targeted online forums that you can participate.
Some examples of well recognized international online forums are http://www.warriorforum.com/forum, http://www.im4newbies.com/forum and http://www.howtocorp.com/forum.
The local forums that you can go are http://www.wangcyber.com/forum and http://www.webmastermalaysia.com.
Search on the internet for the right forums that you want to participate. Then, register and join these forums and start interacting with the community. These forums are FREE TO join.
Most forums allow you to have a short ‘blurb’ about yourself, your business or anything at all at the end of your forum posts. This is what we call a signature file or signature box. To get an idea of a signature file/box, just look at the examples in other posts.
I am going to stop here and part two of this will follow shortly. So please don’t forget to subscribe to http://www.peiprofit.com and follow Ben with Twitter. Also please visit http://www.monsterblog.info. As I have posted this article on that blog.
Till The Next Time… Success Together…!
Mayur Sangani
http://www.monsterblog.info
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Thanks for your effort Mayur. That was a long one =)
WOW!!! I am shocked to know that there were this many tools for twitter alone!! This list of such a huge number of tools makes me want to sign up - surely I must be missing out somehow if there is such huge support for an application - wow.
Great post once again Ben!!
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Lol Taris, I remember you said you are anti twitter? Well you should sign up.. Its really very interesting!
Yea - I’m still shying away from that venue hehehe
Taris Janitens’s last blog post..Flip Sites and Get Rich from JWRMedia.com
Twitter is great. I’m not as big a Twitter user as you but only because I’m not that familiar with it. Thanks for sharing the tools!
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Sure there is always a first time.. you can always start now! I started not long ago too.
I’ve been using TweetLater for scheduled tweets and it seems to work OK but I might have to try Twuffer instead. I got a 98 on Twitter Grader, woohoo!
You gotta check out TweetDeck though, it’s awesome and you’ll never go back to using Twitter on the web.
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Yup thanks for your extra promotion Dud.. Saved my effort!
Nice compilation of twitter tools. Twitter is a very powerful tools for blogger. Thanks for the superb post, i guess ill go through each tool.
Money Money’s last blog post..How To Have Success In Networking Business
You have to.. Don’t miss anyone out
All these plug-ins..so little time haha
i just got into twitter too, i had an account before but never did anything with it except received a lot of crazy tweets on my phone, but now i see the potential in forming a community with twitter and “optimizing” it
follow me on twitter as well..
http://www.twitter.com/pheaktol
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Yup.. its like a live forum updating very quickly.. Very fun actually!
I haven’t been successful in exploiting Twitter as a successful tool in marketing. Any findings you have on it so far?
Wei Liang
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Hmm success in terms of money not really yet but I have managed to make friends and get contacted with some big names and got myself some good traffic. Thats about it for now..
I’m following you on Twitter now.
I have heard of and used most of these. I have one I think is pretty cool I’ad like to add to the list. Twirl is a Twitter client for you desktop. I makes it easy to send Tweets, DMs ect with out having to actually go to the Twitter website. It function very similar to an instant messaging client. There is another one called Tweet deck that seems popular but I still like the Twirl better personally.
-Gerald Weber
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I’m following you on Twitter now.
I have heard of and used most of these. I have one I think is pretty cool I’ad like to add to the list. Twirl is a Twitter client for you desktop. I makes it easy to send Tweets, DMs ect with out having to actually go to the Twitter website. It function very similar to an instant messaging client. There is another one called Tweet deck that seems popular but I still like the Twirl better personally.
Definitely.. I highly recommend you guys to use these tools..
Very timely as you know, thanks dude!
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Lol why dennis? Just got lucky with Twitter?
It should be well known by now that I plan to bust it out in the new year…I’m about due for a new addiction. LOL
Most of the remainder of this year will be “setting up” as I want to start off right!
Dennis Edell’s last blog post..UPDATE: Free Permanent BackLinks: Are You A Subscriber Or Following Me On Twitter?
Good luck on that mate. Be sure to share your success story with me!
Twitter is great. I do use it from time to time daily but it’s got it’s time of day. If I spent all day on twitter (which I could) I would never get any work done.
My favorite tool is that you mentioned above, for obvious reasons, is the twitter search. It allows me to to find conversations going, enter them, and cultivate relationships.
Yeah definitely it should be part of your schedule and not taking over your entire schedule. Glad you like it.. Keep going!
Wow! Thats a lot of Twitter tools! Thanks! I just checked out my twitter grade, I got 98.2 woo hoo!
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Haha well done there!
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Thank you! I appreciate that =)
Im just learning to use twitter for networking and marketing. The tools you provided are very useful. Thanks for sharing them with us.
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Great list. Of course my most favorite was TwitterFox. It makes tweeting a lot easier.
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thanks for the list. i do really adore twitter
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Anyone check out BubbleTweet yet?
Let’s you put a video on your Twitter page using your webcam.
http://www.bubbletweet.com
Check it out if you get a chance…lots of fun and very useful for adding a personal touch to your Twitter page.
I thought i had Twitter all worked out using TwitterFeed and Ping.fm but obviously there are more tools i could be using. TwitterFeed will collect RSS feeds and post them to Twitter or Ping.fm so my “tweets” will be posted to other sites as well, fully automated. I also use TwittyTunes Firefox plugin to post the occasional website i’m browsing or song i’m listening to.
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Cool tips on Twitter. Appreciate that.
Thanks for the twittering tips. I’m one big fan of Twitter but didn’t really know how to use it adequately.