Tools for Making the Most of Twitter
Twitter is a social networking site where you can sign up and send out updates, alerts, links and snippets of information to your followers. These are called Tweets. People are using Twitter as a key marketing tool for their business so how do you make the most out of Twitter for your business.
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We've collated a whole list of tools for making the most of Twitter for your business...check them out...
http://twitterhandbook.com The DIY guide for using Twitter
Nikki Pilkington hosts a blog 'Business on Twitter' , which gives the run down on how to make the most of it for business.
www.twitter.com/twitkit TwitKit is a Twitter sidebar for Firefox.
http://www.twitscoop.com/ -- allows you to find what's hot on Twitter
http://www.twitterfon.net/ TwitterFon is focused on 80% of your task of Twitter such as check friends/
http://www.twellow.com A search directory of people by area of expertise, profession or other attribute listed in personal profiles on Twitter.
http://www.twhirl.org/ - for managing more than one twitter account
http://www.tweetbuddy.com/ is a simple, effective service for managing Twitter followers
http://www.friendorfollow.com/. Who are you following that's not following you back? Who's following you that you're not following back? Find out! ...
http://www.monitter.com/ Web-based tool that allows anyone to monitor Twitter in real-time for mentions of any words or phrases they choose.
http://tweetscan.com/ Allows you to search for your chosen keywords and phrases and send you alerts on a daily or weekly basis that match
http://www.mrtweet.net/ is your personal assistant for Twitter
http://www.tweetdeck.com/ enables you to organize your messages and create groups at
http://www.easytweets.com/ allows you to ask for tweets to be sent to you
You can link your blogs to http://www.twitterfeed.com/
http://www.outwit.com/ Outwit is an all-in-one application for extracting and organizing data from online sources.
Twitterific for iPhone -- Makes "twittering" fairly easy and more fun as you can do it anywhere.
http://www.twitpic.com/ Share photos with your friends on twitter with twitpic. No signup required, just login using your twitter account.
According to a report on the BBC News site (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7844595.stm) the UK is currently leading the field in terms of users,