Do you Twitter?
One in five internet users are now on Twitter according to a study conducted by the Pew Research Center. Over the last year Twitter’s traffic has increased greatly.
For those who don’t know what Twitter is, Twitter is a status-updating or microblogging social networking website.
Twitter was founded by Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams in March 2006.
Since my time on Twitter, I’ve come across some very useful twitter tools. There certainly isn’t a shortage of Twitter applications out there.
Have you ever wondered just how much time you waste on Twitter? Tweetwasters will tell you just that.
Want to know where you rank amongst all other Twitter users around the world? Check out
Hashtags-add tags to your Twitter posts with Hashtags.
Twitsay- Give your Twitter account a voice! Record up to 10 Seconds using your mobile phone.
I don’t know why you would want to, but now you can find out who is cursing on Twitter by using cursebird.
Use Digsby to manage IM, Email, and Twitter from one application.
Fight Twitter Spam
Twitblock- TwitBlock offers a light-hearted approach to booting unwanted followers.
Post more than 140 characters.
Sometimes 140 character is just not enough. Twitlonger is an easy way to post long messages to Twitter without the need to write a blog post.
Directories and User Search Tools
Wefollow- WeFollow is a directory of Twitter users organized by interests.
Twellow- Twellow is a Twitter directory sorted by occupation.
Just Tweet It-Just Tweet It is a user directory for Twitter organized by genre to allow for users to easily find other Twitter users to connect with.
Twitterlights- Twitterlights allows you to highlight snippets of text from any webpage and send it to twitter.
TweetBeep – Tweetbeep is just like Google Alerts. Tweetbeep will send you an alert whenever your set keyword is mentioned on Twitter.
Top Twitter Users
Twitterholic- Provides a list of the 100 best twitterers based on their followers, the people they follow and the number of their updates.
Twitrank- Twit Rank by Twittown is a list of the top 150 Twitterers.
Twittercounter- The 1000 most popular Twitter users.
Popular links on Twitter
Twitturls Find out the popular Twitter links Tweeted with Twitturls.
TwitterBuzz-TwitterBuzz shows you what people using Twitter, are linking to.
Twitter Image Sharing Services
Twitpick-Twitpic, is an app that lets users share photos on Twitter.
Tweetphoto- TweetPhoto is a real-time photo sharing platform for the social web. Instantly share photos on Twitter.
Receive Tweets via email
Twittermail- Twittermail is a website that let’s user send and receive message on Twitter by Email.
mail2twitter-mail2twitter is a free service that allows you to post tweets through e-mail.
Twitter Desktop Clients
Tweetdeck, is a desktop
application, which allows you to manage your feeds, post Tweets without browser log-in etc.
twhirl-twhirl is a desktop client for social software such as Twitter, Friendfeed, identi.ca, or seesmic.
Seesmic Desktop- Seesmic Desktop integrates with both Twitter and Facebook.
Twitter Browser Add-ons
Twitterbar- Twitterbar allows you to post to Twitter via the address bar.
Twitter Search –This search plugin gives you quick access to the real-time Twitter search.
Twittytunes-TwittyTunes is a FoxyTunes feature that allows you to post your currently playing songs to Twitter.
TwitThat -Post pages to twitter via twitthat.
What apps, Twitter websites or interfaces do you use?
Rose DesRochersRose wears many hats. She's a wife, mother, respite worker, proud shih-tzu owner, blogger, published poet, freelance writer, as well as the owner and administrator of Today's Writing Community and Blogger Talk Blog Community. Feel free to contact her with any questions you may have.Rose DesRochers has 1216 post(s) at Rose DesRochers – World Outside My Window
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12 responses so far ↓
Wrote: Dec 13, 2009 at 12:47 pm
Hi! Great resources! I think they would take me a month of sundays to go through!
Even though I do not spend much time on twitter, it is one way of keeping in touch with whats happening outside my square.
One other resource I use, which I don’t think is mentioned here, is the Twitter Notify plugin for Windows Live Writer.
BTW How do some twitter users end up with 15,000 followers? They mustn’t have much time for anything else!
Take Care,
Peter
Rose DesRochers Reply:
December 13th, 2009 at 9:16 pm
I have 621 followers. Looks like I have some catching up to do. lol
Wrote: Dec 13, 2009 at 1:36 pm
Hi Rose,
I use HootSuite as my primary Twitter app. I like it because it’s web based so you don’t need to download anything like with TweetDeck. They also have the URL shortener, scheduled tweets and tracking stats.
Buzzom is a good tool for mass following and unfollowing people and Topsy is great for searches.
I’ll check out some of the ones you have here, there is always a new Twitter tool to try.
Thanks.
Wrote: Dec 13, 2009 at 3:24 pm
Holy cowabunga!! What a list, reminds me of how I’ve not tweeted in a week.
I really wish I would tweet more, but I have some little block against it, TweetWasting, perhaps?
I dunno.
Buzzom? Hmnnn. sounds interesting.
Wrote: Dec 13, 2009 at 3:26 pm
Hi Rose,
I started with Tweet Deck and moved over to HootSuite for pretty much the same reasons as Ileane.
Tweetwasters was good fun – thanks!
Cheers
Will
P.S. I saw from your Twitter stream that you’re interviewing Brian … are you a member at BlogEngage??
Rose DesRochers Reply:
December 13th, 2009 at 9:13 pm
Why yes I am.
Wrote: Dec 13, 2009 at 7:33 pm
I don’t want to know how much time I waste on Twitter!!!!! Probably way too much
I use Wefollow, Twellow, Seesmic and Tweetdeck desktop apps (trying to decide which I like better right now) as well as SocialScope and Ubertwitter for blackberry.
Some of the others you listed are built into phone and desktop apps ie: search, twitpic, hashtags.
I will have to check out Twitblock, some spammers are annoying!
Rose DesRochers Reply:
December 13th, 2009 at 9:14 pm
Annoying= porn bots and spammers.
Wrote: Dec 13, 2009 at 9:19 pm
I jsut use the plain only Twitter.com. I have enjoyed the introduction of lists which helps me find more people related to my niche. I guess you could call me a Twitter purest.
Wrote: Dec 14, 2009 at 2:07 am
I use Tweetboard on my site and it lets me have Twitter conversations on my websites as well as grow some backlinks as well
Wrote: Dec 17, 2009 at 3:41 am
Someday when i have time to waste on twitter stuff, I’ll come here first to get this info!
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Wrote: Dec 17, 2009 at 4:06 pm
Rose,
What an exhaustive and wonderful link-up of the best of Twitter! Wow, I can’t believe the 1 in 5 people on Twitter stats. That’s just crazy!!!
Thanks for the comment on my interview at Famous Bloggers Club! Hope you enjoyed my site. I look forward to getting to know you!
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