Due to the extreme popularity of TwiTip’s “10 Twitter Tools that Help You Work Smarter” post, we’re proud to present 10 MORE must have Twitter tools to help you get more done with less! This post is by guest author Sherice Jacob (follow her @sherice), a web designer, copywriter and author of Get Niche Quick!
If you loved our 10 Twitter Tips that Help You Work Smarter, you’ll find our newest list of even more “must have” Twitter services and plugins even better! Special thanks to fellow TwiTip readers whose suggestions were invaluable in helping us create the latest list. It was difficult to narrow it down to just ten, but here they are!
1. HootSuite – Streamlined Twitter account management from one clean, user-friendly interface is yours when you use HootSuite. In addition to being able to manage multiple Twitter accounts and profile from one application, you can also schedule tweets, track clicks to your links (using HootSuite’s ow.ly URL shortening service) and get an entire overview of each Twitter account with easy tab-based navigation.
2. TweetChannel – Confused by #hashtags in Twitter? You shouldn’t be after reading this tutorial but if you’d like an easier way to send your tweets to a specific audience, you’ll want to check out Tweet Channel, a simplified, user-friendly interface to working with hashtags. See the most popular channels as well as the newest created channels directly from the Tweet Channel website.
3. Tweet2Tweet – What ARE they talking about? With Tweet2Tweet, you can see the @replies between any two people in just minutes. Keep up on any conversation instantly. Just enter both screen names on Tweet2Tweet to see the results in reverse chronological order (most recent entries first).
4. TwitterSnooze – TwitterSnooze provides a very valuable (and free) service. If you follow someone who’s rather…”talkative” you can temporarily “snooze” them and their tweets without unfollowing them permanently. Choose a timeframe anywhere from a day to a month. Perfect for your more “verbose” tweeters.
5. TweetCube – Want to share audio, video or images on Twitter? TweetCube is a free file sharing service that lets you tweet larger files to your followers. Just a couple of clicks is all it takes to start sharing files through your TweetCube account.
6. Twitterless – Thanks to a vigilant TwiTip user, we learned that a previous resource in our Top 10, Qwitter, is no longer sending out unfollow notices (even though their site is still up as of this article writing). Fortunately, Twitterless offers the same unfollowed notification service at Qwitter – just follow @tless to sign up.
7. CoTweet – CoTweet lets multiple people at the same company manage their business Twitter accounts together while keeping tabs on their brand name and how it’s being used. CoTweet can also be used to assign tasks to different departments and follow up on results and feedback.
8. OutTwit – Microsoft Outlook is an indispensible part of the day for many individuals, businesses and organizations. OutTwit’s feature list is too numerous to list here, but suffice it to say that if you use Outlook, you can manage and post to your Twitter account directly from your Outlook interface. You can also track keywords and have the details sent to your email, even if you’re not following the original tweeter.
9. TweeTake – TweeTake lets you backup your entire Twitter account into a .CSV file (commonly opened with Microsoft Excel). Back up your tweets, followers and people you’re following in just a few minutes. Since many people have lost followers in the past due to Twitter downtime, or you may want to refer to an older Tweet (Twitter doesn’t currently let you keep older tweets), TweeTake is a must-have tool for keeping a copy of your Twitter account should the inevitable happen!
10. Twitt(url)y – Twitt(url)y lets you instantly see what people are tweeting about and linking to. Track the hot trends instantly. A great source for possible blog entries and new followers since you can see who tweeted or re-tweeted the link as well as the URLs they used. You can also see how often the link was tweeted in a certain timeframe.
Just for Fun
There are a couple of Twitter tools I uncovered that are just plain fun to check out!
TweetWheel – See which of your Twitter friends know each other! If you have a large follower base, this may take time to load and only does the last 100 followers, but it’s interesting to see who’s following who and just how short the “degrees of separation” are between your followers.
TweetValue – How much is your Twitter account worth? As a sample, Barack Obama’s account is worth over $40,000 and Darren’s is worth $3,372.
TwitterGrader – How do you rank on Twitter? Check out your Twitter “grade” out of 100.
Try any or all of these Twitter services and applications and open up a whole new world of possibilities using everybody’s favorite 140-character website. Enjoy and let me know of any must-have Twitter tools I missed in your comments below!
@jaredotoole
twittersnooze sounds really cool. There are definitely a bunch of people who aren’t bad to follow but at certain times just need to be muted because they take up the twitter stream.
Great stuff….looking forward to checking out the rest of the apps.
@NateDesmond
Hey, I Tweet Grader sounds neat. I think I will go give it a try.
Thanks,
Nate
@articlesbin
This is a great place for everyone new to Twitter to start… These tools are immensely helpful in navigating your way through the Twitter experience…
Happy socializing, Happy Marketing and Happy Tweeting,
Pat & Gina
@EricHamm
I know of a few of these, but certainly not all. Thanks for another great Twitter post to add to my ‘Social Media Resources’ bookmarks.
I think it’s becoming more and more crucial for Tweeters to have the capability of using multiple accounts at the same time. As Twitter becomes more of a marketing tool we will find the need to create multiple Twitter personalities to cover our different business and personal personas. Some of these tools look very promising for this. So far I’ve been playing with TweetCockpit. Now I have more toys to play with. Thanks! Eric
@jeff_Finley
These are great tips Nate. I’m checking out CoTweet and OutTwit right now… Also gave this post a retweet!
Great List!:
Another great tool that has just come out into Beta is t(wait)terr. It is a full twitter client plus scheduling platform with tools to make scheduling and managing messages easier. Includes an outlook style calendar to view your tweets.
http://www.twaitter.com
@Olivero
Thanks for the list which covers most applications I appreciate. I strongly suggest you also check out MicroPlaza.com and its Tribal Search which has just been released under private beta and which provides a mix of Digg, Delicious and RSS that allows you to browse, search and monitor relevant news tweeted by the people or groups of people you follow… and lot’s more.
Cheers,
Olivero
@briancray
Don’t forget Nearby Tweets for finding local twitterers!
@michaelkrahn
I want a tool that analyzes what time and day those I follow and those that follow me are most likely to be tweeting.
Since it is impossible to monitor every tweet, I would at least like to know when I’m most likely to connect with those in my circle and when the most effective time and day is to drop a tweet in or a link to a new blog post.
@johnsamuel
You can also look for the most popular links on Twitter using http://tweetmeme.com
@SteenOhman
Great list …
Has just been Twittering for two weeks … so this is a new world for me. Great to find a extensive list of tools.
Must say i’m very impressed with Twitter … it has a very big business potential.
@sherice
Glad to hear you’re all finding new uses for Twitter with these excellent tools! I’ve been getting lots of great recommendations for a new list through Twitter. Feel free to send yours too!
@BILL_ROMANOS
Great listing of tools. Some I haven’t seen before.
Thanks!
@josephrueter
Great list. This is the first I’d herd of CoTweet. Thanks for the list. I wonder if you’d consider a service that makes it easy to tweet quotes of text from any page with two clicks. It’s called http://www.tweetthistext.com
@blogviet
Great list. I have not used many of these but should try soon. T
@giaiphapso
Thanks men! Good way to tweet
@lipshay
Alice in Wonderland; just making sure I don’t have any rabbit hole problems; getterdone!?
@astransman
Like many people, I thought Twitter was simple and a bit silly when I first heard about it. Now, I am overwhelmed with the possibilities and amount of information. Staggering.
@louisliem
Qwitter still send me mails…. up to hours ago at least…
@ganeshsrinivas
Thanks for the list. Especially Twitter Grader and TweetValue were awesome!
@123network
This time the list is all professional and more of a corporate level.
Good going.
Seems you r developing vry fast.
All these were needed after one gets out of the know how level of twitter.
Good list
keep them coming.
@hectorhenry17
Thank you for the pots i thin twitter have somuch apps that its hard to know how muhc exactly.
Than you againg.
@jjdb210
Awesome list of tools!
Don’t forget TwitCapt (http://www.twitcapt.com/). This newly released tool allows anyone to create a viral message using wordpress and twitter.
@jordanwillms
Great list.
Also check out http://www.tweettop.com and http://www.wefollow.com
J
Nice Post again !
Still missing these 2 very useful ones
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1. SocialToo – http://bit.ly/tXHEP , you can get report everyday in your email of followers/unfollowers and do autoFollow/autoDM (I dont use “auto” options)
2. Twimailer – see details : http://bit.ly/lvZ3
Have a good day,
Michel.
@vietad
great list, thanks for sharing. I could not think there are a lot of tweet tools until now
@gr33ndata
Hello,
This one it to follow conversations between Twitteres, it’s somehow similar to Tweet2Tweet.
http://www.baralbait.com/twall2wall
@amazooo
Some tools I’ve never use before.
Thank you very much.
@iphonezone
Great list, thanks for sharing. Don’t forget Mr. Tweet.
@drjeanne
I haven’t used any of these. Do you recommend Tweeterdeck
I think when I tried to use it my antivirus went crazy. But I’ve heard it recommended. I’d appreciate your all sharing what you know.
drjeanne – tweeterdeck is good. Definitely check it out.
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