Twitter Tools
The following is a list of online tools that can be used in conjunction with the social networking medium Twitter, in order to promote your business.
http://tweetmeme.com/ - this tool lists popular tweets and allows you to place retweet buttons on each page of your site.
http://www.monitter.com/ - this tool lets you see tweets from up to three different topics as they happen. This is very useful for when a breaking news event has occurred.
http://twitturly.com/ - tracks and ranks the top URLs that people are talking about on Twitter. A great way of tracking not just your posts, but who else is talking about your site.
http://www.tweetlater.com ” allows you to set up tweets to be posted later that day or week. This has advantages and disadvantages, for example many people get irate if they think that you aren’t sending tweets live. If they read a tweet minutes after you publish it, then want to contact you or strike up a conversation and you aren’t there to talk then they may well unfollow you. Personally I think for the convenience of spreading your tweets out rather than sending several close together then it is worth the potential downside risks.
http://klout.net/ - this allows you to measure how big your influence is within Twitter.
http://twittercounter.com/ - shows you your Twitter statistics as your followers grow over time.
http://tweetdeck.com/beta/ - a good tool that allows you to keep up with Twitter in real time.
http://www.twibes.com/twitter-groups - Is a great place to find new people to follow, and new groups(Tribes ” Twibes) to join.
http://www.twitterbackgrounds.com/ - this tool allows you to put one of their free backgrounds on your Twitter page.
http://www.orangatame.com/products/twitterberry/ - Is a Blackberry app that allows you to post tweets from your phone. Just like Stephen Fry did when he was stuck in a lift recently.
It is common Twitter protocol to follow back those who follow you, but it is not a necessity, you can run your own page as you see fit. I suggest going for quality of tweets rather than quantity because people will then want to read what you write, whereas if youre simply forever tweeting about nothing, then the chances are they wont.
You should concentrate on making regular tweets that you yourself would read if you saw them and that will build your Twitter following.
