A lot of time people ask me what twitter tools to use for this or that. SO I thought I create a list for this purpose only. Here I have compiled the list of twitter tools which I have found worth using. This list contains the tools for doing specific tasks on twitter. If you are looking for the complete twitter clients I have mentioned 3 here. For more you can read my earlier post How to choose the right Twitter client for you
TwitDir is a Twitter Directory. Search for Twitter users by Name, username, location and even text in their description.
Mr. Tweet recommends you the users to follow by comparing social graphs. It helps you choose the right people those you can follow by going through their bio, the number of people they follow and how many followers they have along with statistics and information like How frequently They tweet/Retweet, % of Conversation they have, Links they share e.t.c.
Who Follows Whom
Whofollowswhom is a small little application to find what it says “Who Follows Whom” Pick up to 5 tweeters to see who they follow and are followed by in common.
UnTweeps lets you go on diet, unfollow the tweeps who have not tweeted since X number of days. You can choose number of days. Define The White-list for people who don't tweet very often, but you still want to follow them. Upto 3 times a month it’s a free service. If you long for more than 3 times a month, purchase an UnTweeps Pro account.
FriendOrFollow is a Twitter followers management application that shows the user who they are following that is not following them back and vice versa. Simply as the site homepage says Who's not following you back on Twitter? Who are you not following back? Who are your mutual friends? Find out!
Refollow helps you discover, manage, and protect your Twitter social circle. A real value add in your tools. You can find Who is Following/Not Following you, Whom You are Following/not Following, Previously Followed, Never Followed along with many other filters including the keywords included/excluded in Bio, Tweet, Website and much more.
My Tweeple: People follow you and unfollow you on Twitter. If you want to see the latest changes from Twitter, My Tweeple is a great way to manage all your Twitter people in one place. A mut have tool.
What is the buzz around?
Twitscoop allows you to search what's buzzing on twitter in real-time. It is good place to keep you on top of twitter sphere and that is the USP of this web tool.
Monitter is a web-based tool that allows you to monitor Tweets in your vecinity for mentions of any words or phrases they choose.
Convo Monitor is a dashboard view that allows you to track your brand on Twitter. You also can track Twitter conversations about any topic, word, phrase, idea, or person.
Adding Video/Backgrounds
Twiddeo is a powerful but simple service that lets you updates twitter with Video. Upload from the web, your cameraphone and record from your webcam.
TwitBacks is a place where you can create your own Twitter background with your branding - Free. The site has background collection which gives you a wide selection under various categories.
Tweerank helps you find how influential you are in your tweeter sphere. It measures your "engagement score" out of 100, considering various parameters such as No. of followers/Friends, RT you receive, @ replies and more.
Twitaholic, a web based utility tracks most popular users from twitter based on their followers. You can check the top Tweeps globally or in your geographic region. You can also check where you stand globally and in your geographic area. It is a good place if you want to start following few influential people or simply if you want to boast about your influence in twitter sphere.
Retweetrank tells you how interesting & useful content are you producing? Retweets are great indication of influence and the audience’s interest in your tweets. Retweetrank is a webtool to find just that based on the number of retweets you get. With the rank, latest retweets of the user are shown along with RSS feed.
Scheduling tweets
FutureTweets, as its name suggests is a free service that lets you schedule your Twitter messages. Send it at a specific time in the future or send a reoccuring Tweet daily, weekly, monthly or yearly! You'll never forget the birthdays of your beloved Twitter friends again!
Complete Twitter Client
Twitiq (earlier TwitHive) is one of the first twitter clients I had used. On the first look at it looks somewhat like Twitter web but the Top bar makes it little more valuable. You can create and Check channels, get analytics of your tweets. Other enhancement it offers over twitter web is Automatic Expansion of Shortened URLs, Inline Image and Video Previews, Channels Syndication. These things make you a power user.
HootSuite (earlier BrightKit) is one twitter client that has really impressed me. It is available for web as well for download on your phone. If you want almost everything for twitter including analytics, Tweet scheduling, CRM, Team management HootSuite is your best bet. It will not offer few things though saved tweets to reply FAQ, is one of them.
CoTweet is a cleanly designed twitter CRM tool which lets you assign tweets to specific member of your team whom you want to deal with the specific tweet. You can add notes on Twitter users that your team can see.
Miscellaneous
GroupTweet is a service that works behind the scenes with Twitter to allow users to form groups and communicate within those groups. It enhances the direct message feature to work for multiple users with one single DM. Create your group and share the information only with your group. Do not forget to protect your tweets.
Twittonary provides explanations of various Twitter related words. You can search the entire Twitter Dictionary or by single word using the alphabet it start with.
AddTweets is a service that allows you to add your latest tweets to your blog or website. Just join AddTweets and you will get a small piece of JavaScript code. Add this code to your site/Blog and your tweets will start appearing on your site/blog. Its free the only thing you need to know is that you will be on their mailing list (Hey there is nothing called free lunch).
