Apr 16 2009
Top Must Have Twitter Apps
Twitter has become one of the most powerful social networks around! People all over the world now participate in this ever growing community of tweets. It has become an essential networking tool not just for everyday people but for businesses as well. If you are not yet on Twitter I highly recommend joining, it is very easy to join, just go to Twitter.com.
Twitter is an amazing tool if you use it correctly. However, Twitter does have a downfall, it does not allow for a very manageable platform. Once you start gaining more followers it is very hard to keep track of them and their tweets. So in this blog post I am going to share with you some of my favorite extra Twitter apps that can help you better manage your account!
TOP TWITTER APPS:
1.) Tweetdeck : This is probably the app I use most often. It is basically a personal browser for Twitter. This is one of the best apps to have to stay in touch with your twitter followers/friends. It not only allows you to send out tweets right from the app and allows you to shorten your URLs. This is a great tool to keep your twitter account organized!
2.) TweetLater : This is the second Twitter app I use most often! Using this app you can schedule your twitter messages or tweets to go out at specific times. It also allow you to automatically send out a direct message to people who follow you, so you can thank them or ask them to check out your site. You can automatically follow people who are following your and much much more! Highly recommended!
3.) Twitterholic : This site allows you to see who the top 100 Twitterers are on Twitter or who has the most followers. Great Place to find people to follow on Twitter. You can also click on the location field and find who is the top twitterers in your area!
4.) Twitpic : This app allows you to share pictures on Twitter! People Love pictures, so sharing pics will also allow you to gain more followers!
5.) TweetEffect : Here you can find out which of your tweets/updates made people follow or unfollow you. Great tools to see what kind of tweets people are interested in!
6.) FlashTweet : This is a mass follow/unfollow tool, Lets you see who is following you and who is not, then allows you to mass unfollow those people are are not following you!
7.) Buzzom : This is a awesome new twitter apps that I use to follow new people! It automatically picks people you are not following yet based on your profile and the current people you are following! You can Grow your Twitter account rapidly with this tool. There are also many other features to this app. Definitely recommend!
8.) Digsby : This is not just a Twitter app it works with other social networking sites as well! Digsby alerts you of new messages or other events you get and gives you a live Newsfeed of what all your followers/friends are up to!
9.) Twitterfeed : This tool is great if you have a blog. This tool automatically twitters your RSS Feeds to your followers.
10.) TweetValue: This is a fun twitter app that calculates how much your twitter account is worth!
11.) Twiggit : Twitter meets dig with this app, it allows your followers to see what articles you dig.
12.) TwitThis : This app allows your to put a link on the bottom of your website or blog that says TwitThis so that people can click it and automatically tweet your website/post.
13.) Twhirl : This app is very similar to Tweetdeck but it has some features that tweetdeck does not, such as recording video and sharing it on twitter and post images to twitpic. This app allows you to manage your twitter account more efficiently.
14.) TwitterCounter : Here you can show people on your website or blog how many followers your have. It can help you build your followers and track your popularity over time.
15.) TweetMeMe : This site tracks the different links that twitter users tweet and then posts them based on popularity and category. This site updates on its own every 5 minutes. Great site to see what the hottest topic on twitter is, and see how many people retweeted that link.
16.) Twtpoll : Here you can create a poll on twitter.
17.) Retweetist : This is similar to Tweetmeme, but it shows all tweets not just tweets with links that are retweeted the most!
18.) Tweepler : This site allows you to organize your followers and people who are following you, by putting them into buckets.
19.) TwitterKarma : This site allows you to manage your followers by mass unfollowing people who aren’t following you.
20.) Tweetburner : Here you can enter a URL you want to share with your twitter friends and you can shorten it and track it!
Other Sites To Check Out For Information:
- For More Twitter Applications you can check out Online Best Colleges Blog on 100 Twitter Tools To Help Achieve your Goals They have a great selection of Twitter apps that I didn’t even know existed, such as a app that allows you to track what you are eating everyday! There is some great information here definitely check it out!
- Another great site to check out for the most popular Twitter Apps is TechCrunch’s Blog on The Top 21 Twitter Applications.
- Lastly a site that is dedicated to the latest Twitter widgets and Apps is Twittown.
Till Next Post,
Krista
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Hi, cool post. I have been thinking about this topic,so thanks for posting. I’ll probably be coming back to your blog. Keep up great writing
Hey Krista great list,
these are definitely must use twitter apps,
while I use many of these, your list has some that I wasn’t aware of such as Buzzom – I just tried it and think it is a great site…
Thanks so much for sharing this list,
J Bode
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So many apps to choose from. Features are great and useful (not to mention their catchy/funny names) but is there are twitter app that does all of the above?
Tweetdeck is awesome! I love and use it everyday. Love how it always gets updated so often. Seeismic is pretty cool though.
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To be honest, I am not very familiar to social networks like twitter, as i have read many reviews & it is heavily crowded by people around the globe. But i have heard that there are spammers too. I am using facebook & its quite user friendly. However, Social Networks provides a good chance to meet new peoples, it’s like social gathering. After reading your post i think i should try to join twitter.
An interesting read! Keep up the awesome posts!
By the way, KeywordLuv is amazing. I use it on all of my blogs and it really does increase the amount of REAL comments from readers, as there is an incentive for them to post.
-Jessica
There are heaps of applications here I’ve never seen before. I’ll be looking into them all and really making the most of Twitter and the opportunities it holds for marketing and getting traffic. I like the idea of Tweetdeck. It’s great to find this information before I actually begin any marketing efforts on Twitter. At least I can start organizing my followers from the start and get a good set up going early. Thanks for your time in putting this article together. I’m keen to learn the right way to use Twitter first so I don’t have to rely on trial and error so much
I am using tweetdeck everyday. Getting new updates from my friends become more simple and easy using this application.