1stwebdesigner

Posted by ryan | Posted on 20:26

Posted: 19 Jun 2010 04:00 AM PDT

Twitter has progressed so much in past few years and now it has been used almost by everybody – let it be freelancer designer, programmer, social media company, printing company, everybody evaluates Twitter power and actually try to make their brand more powerful with it.

A lot of tools has been developed over time and some of them can really relief your Twitter experience and automate some time consuming actions. That’s why I collected some great tools sorted in categories, which you might find extremely useful for using Twitter – find more targeted followers, track visitors – who is following, not following, deadbeat users, clean your account – ah..check what we have on table this time yourself!

Follower Tools

1. Mr Tweet

Mr Tweet is your personal Twitter assistant. Discover great people you might want to follow, join communities and share your Twitter buddies.

2. TweetBeep

Get regular updates to your email with conversation trackings, mentions, followers. You can even keep track of who's tweeting your website or blog.

3. FlashTweet

FlashTweet is a Twitter application that simplifies the process of acquiring more targeted followers. You can add multiple Twitter accounts to your profile, discover who you are following that is following you back, mass follow users based on search terms and location, unfollow multiple friends at once, schedule tweets in advance to run throughout the week, insert RSS feeds that will automatically tweet the title and link of your blog or another site.

4. Friend or Follow

Useful and easily usable tool to see who're you following, that's not following you back and conversely.

5. WeFollow

Enter tags and find new people to follow. You can add yourself to the database too.

6. Nearby Tweets

Find new people to follow based on location.

7. Tweepler

Tweepler is a much needed and more intuitive way of processing your Twitter followers. It allows you to quickly browse trough people you might be interested in, then follow or ignore them.

8. Tweepsect

See user's followers and those he follows to determine who is stalking the user and who the user is stalking

9. Twitter Friends Network Browser

Browse trough your friends, your friend's friends and so.

10. Twitter DMer

Twitter DMer is a tool to impress your followers with individually customized DMs.

11. Twit Cleaner

Analyses the people you follow, identifies the time wasters, spammers, bots & those who’ve quit Twitter.

Stats

1. Twitter Grader

Twitter Grader is a free tool that allows you to check the power of your twitter profile compared to millions of other users that have been graded.

2. Tweet Stats

Get detailed stats of your tweets.

3. Twitter Analyzer

Analyze someone's tweet stats, popularity, reach, hashtags, subjects and more.

4. Twoorl

Get all neccesary stats about your acount. It's still in beta, so you'll have to follow @twoolr_beta.

Trends and Topics

1. Tweetmeme

Find most popular links in Twitter, sorted in categories.

2. Summize

Search for tweets, keywoard, users and much more.

3. Topsy

Search engine powered by tweets.

4. Trendistic

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.

Tweets

1. Twuffer

Twuffer allows the Twitter user to compose a list of future tweets, and schedule their release.

2. GroupTweet

GroupTweet turns a standard Twitter account into a group communication hub where members can post updates to everyone in the group using direct messages. When the group account receives a direct message from a group member, GroupTweet converts it into a tweet that all followers can see.

3. Twiddict

Twiddict sends your tweets to Twitter even if it's down.

4. Runt.ly

Runt.ly is the easiest way to create short blog-style posts to share over Twitter and other micro-blogs. Runt.ly posts can include linked photos, embedded videos and more.

5. Bigtwitt

BigTwitt will create URL for your long tweet and then you'll be able to post it.

Bloggers

1. Twitter Feed

Add RSS feeds and it automaticcly posts the headlines to Twitter.

2. Twitter Tools

Twitter Tools is a plugin that creates a complete integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account.

Sharing

1. Bit.ly

Shorten URLs, share them, track them.

2. Twitpic

Upload and share photos on Twitter.

3. Twitvid

Upload and share vidoes on Twitter.

4. Twittload

Free file hosting for Twitter.

5. Twitter Music

Find and share music on Twitter.

6. Twitsay

Record voice message and post it to your followers.

7. Twitcam

Broadcast live, your followers can see you and you can chat with them. After that video will be saved in archive.

Twitter Clients

1. Tweetdeck

TweetDeck is your personal browser for staying in touch with what's happening now, connecting you with your contacts across Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and more. Connect with your Facebook and MySpace friends directly from TweetDeck by updating your status, posting photos or videos, commenting, liking and groups your friends to make it easier to follow only those you really want to see what your friends are doing by creating columns for each of your groups of friends. Available also on iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.

2. Seesmic

Available on almost all most popular platforms, one of the best Twitter clients. Update and view multiple social networks in one efficient but powerful application customized to your needs.