Get More Out of Twitter: Top Posts, Links and Tools
2008 May 17
Tools
Here are the best tools (and lists of tools) for Twitter that I’ve uncovered over the last few weeks:
- Online Marketing Blog: Five New Twitter Tools You Should Know
- Web Strategy by Jeremiah: My Essential Twitter Tools
- ReadWriteWeb: How We Tweet: The Definitive List of the Top Twitter Clients
- SearchRank: 7 Gadgets That Are Sure To Enhance the Twitter Experience
- Unclutterer: Uncluttering with Twitter – another list of tools
- Frantic Industries: All Twitter tools and mashups in one place
- Twitter 100 – view your followers at a glance – wish it showed which I was already following but it is interesting to see when was the last time each person lasted posted to Twitter.
- Twhirl – I recently switched from using Twitbin in Firefox to using Twril on the desktop. I find it much better for keeping up with my Twitter feed.
- Summize – search Twitter in realtime. Summize recommended by my Twitter community when I was looking for a better search tool.
- Tweet Scan – I’ve had pretty good luck setting up alerts in Tweetscan.
- Twitter Meter- let’s you query an index of all the words that have been sent to twitter since 11/6/2007 and then plot the number of times that word was used over time. Interesting and fun, but I’m not sure useful….
Following and Being Followed
I don’t post to Twitter that often (maybe a few times a week), but I my followers have grown from 15 to over 100 in the last few months. I follow almost everyone who follows me . I skip people who post primarily in languages other than English or who use Twitter only as tool or making product annoucements (I like to follow real people, thanks!).
- Follow me: http://twitter.com/shlarsen
- Technobabble 2.0: Top analyst twitters / micro-bloggers… updated – looking for experts to follow?
- Marketing Pilgrim: 200+ Internet Marketing Gurus on Twitter – links to a tool on Seocracy.com to quickly follow all the gurus.
- Blog Herald: Gridjit,A Social Portal for Twitter
Twitter for the Enterprise
Some thought provoking posts on using Twitter as an enterprise tool. I use Twitter primarily as a work tool and find it great for:
- competitive intelligence
- keeping up with online marketing trends
- (very few) corporate announcements – again I want to be a “real person” not a corporate shill, so I keep this to a minimum
- tracking mentions of me and my company
- TechCrunch: End Of Speculation: The Real Twitter Usage Numbers – ever curious as to who is using Twitter? This post says 200,000 active users a week (up from 50,000 in April).
- Performancing: Twitter As Resource? – one person’s journey from skeptic to fan
- Text Technologies: Enterprise Twitter – the author’s thoughts for an enterprise version of Twitter with real-time short communications with collegues, real-time wide outreach with customers, a replacement for existing IM services, all existing outside the corporate firewall
- Fast Forward: Trends to Watch: Twitter in the Enterprise
- MarketingProfs: 7 Ways Marketers Can Use Twitter
- Online Marketing Blog: Guide to Twitter as a Tool for Marketing and PR
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Thanks Sheri, that’s a very informative and helpful list.
In addition I would add that people can get additional value out of Twitter by rethinking the way that Favorites are used. (Favorites aren’t a widely talked about feature of Twitter, so there may be people who aren’t using Favorites at all.)
Favorites are public content, meaning they can be viewed by someone who isn’t logged into Twitter, so the tweets you Favorite can be very useful to someone visiting your Twitter profile if you choose wisely and Favorite tweets that are meaningful.
Having collected a good list tweets, the Favorites area of your Twitter profile becomes a valuable resource that can be highlighted, and linked-to, from your Website or blog. And those carefully selected (and Favorited) tweets can be significantly more useful to someone compared to your Twitter timeline.
More ideas on how to leverage Twitter Favorites can be found on the following post:
http://saieva.wordpress.com/2009/02/22/the-most-overlooked-feature-of-twitter/
Regards,
Sal.
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Salvatore Saieva
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Wouldn’t it be just great if you could find the most useful tweets and links about the hottest most interesting topics online, all in one place? Wouldn’t it be just convenient if you could link that valuable information to the tweeple who posted it so you can have continuous access to his/her tweets by following him/her accordingly?
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