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Marketing Series #4: 13 Free Applications For Twitter Use
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© by John
Baril
Everybody
seems to be talking about Twitter nowadays. With the emergence of this
micro-blogging platform has come the development of numerous free
applications.
In this article, we'll take a look at some of those applications and
see what
can be done with them in terms of Twitter use.
1.
TweetBeep.com: Track your keywords on Twitter. Tweetbeep will
update
every day or every hour when your keywords have been used by somebody
on
Twitter.
2.
TweetLater.com: This application allows you to plan your posts to go
out at
fixed times. As with Tweet beep, you can set up keyword tracking.
Tweetlater
also permits you to follow back automatically when someone follows you.
You can
also write a greeting that will be automatically sent out to everyone
who
started following you.
3.
SocialToo.com: This service sends you a list of people who started
following
you and who stopped following you the day before. You can also use it,
like
Tweetlater, to set up an automatic welcome message for your new
followers.
Socialtoo
also allows you to set up online questionnaires, and publish them on
Twitter
and other networks.
4.
TwitterCounter.com: Check out the number of people who are following
you, or
anyone else. You can plug in two different Twitter users and check
their stats.
Twittercounter also predicts how many followers you will have in the
future.
You can then post the result in a widget on your blog.
5.
Friendorfollow.com: Find out which of the people you are following are
NOT
following you back.
6.
Tweetergetter.com Here is clever resource, by Gary McCaffery, that is
designed
to automatically build your list of followers.
7.
Twittergrader.com: This tool gives you information about the health of
your
network, how often you post messages on Twitter and how complete your
profile
is. It also gives you an overall percentage which you can then Tweet
out on
Twitter!
8.
Twitthis.com: This is a good way to post links to anything that takes
your
fancy on the Internet. You can also add a button to your website and
maybe some
of your website visitors will tweet your stuff.
9.
Tweetstats.com: this attractive application sets out to Twitter use
clients,
bar graphs to display your performance on Twitter. Check out when you
tweet the
most. If you want to, you can share your report with everybody else by
tweeting
it!
10.
Tweetdeck.com: Download this program to your hard-drive and use it to
organize
your tweets into topic-specific groups. This is an efficient way to
deal with
all the messages that have come in.
11.
Twellow.com: The Twitter yellow pages.
12.
Twollo.com: Set your keywords and this application will seek out
like-minded
people for you to follow!
13.
http://is.gd
- This is a URL shortening service.
Another type of free application you will find indispensable if you
link out
from your Twitter posts is a URL shortening service. A short URL will
give you
some extra characters for play with in your message.
These
are just some of the Twitter apps that you can use to get more out of
Twitter,
and doubtless many more tools are being worked on even as you read this.
I
wish you the best of success,
John Baril
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