Sure, you may have finally gathered the courage to go out and explore the Twitterverse, but have you armed yourself with the basic tricks to maximize your reach and value? Anytime you’re in the mood to tweet, be sure to incorporate this handful of helpful Twitter tools.
· TweetStats (www.tweetstats.com) – One of the most popular and utilized tools, this site enables people to analyze the tweeting trends for themselves or any username by month, by hour or even over a particular timeframe. Examining reply stats and topic trends can help you gain a better sense of what people are most interested in talking about.
· Retweetist (www.retweetist.com) – This site highlights folks in the Twitterverse who are re-tweeted the most (that is, their updates are forwarded most often by their followers). It can be extremely valuable from a marketing standpoint in helping you identify key thought leaders whom you may wish to reach to spread the word about your own product or company.
· Tweetdeck (www.tweetdeck.com/beta/) – We’ve done cartwheels time and time again for this great time management lifesaver! Weed through the vast amount of tweets for everyone you follow and prioritize the tweeple whose updates you simply can’t afford to miss.
· SocialToo (www.socialtoo.com) – Ever want to reach out to all of your followers with a survey? You can with this powerful tool that also provides daily update summaries of all of the people you follow and auto-follow functionality.
· TwitterCounter (www.twittercounter.com) – Track and chart the growth of your username (or other usernames’) number of followers over any given timeframe – and get this! It’ll even predict future growth based on previous data trends. How cool is that!
· Tweet Later (www.tweetlater.com) – Truly the greatest time management tweet tool of them all… want to make sure that the moment you launch that new product a tweet goes out to everybody? Schedule it ahead of time or heck, how about a countdown series of tweets on the hour?
· TwitterMail (www.twittermail.com) – Have you always thought ‘boy, it would sure be easier if I could tweet via email?’ Well, you can, using this handy dedicated email tool. You can even respond to @replies to your tweets!
There are so many different Twitter applications available to help you save time updating and monitor the people you wish to follow more efficiently. This short list only scratches the surface of what’s out there (more to come in a future blog!)
The key to successful micro-blogging is to find ways to make your update time more productive and the conversation, more meaningful, and spend those minutes saved getting to really know the folks out there in the great, big, wonderful Twitterverse.
Happy tweeting, all!
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