To Tweet or Not To Tweet?

CATEGORIES: Columns | Nancy Masse | June 22, 2009

Twitter apps and helpful sites

– There are a gazillion of Twitter-related apps and sites out there. Here are just a few I use most often.

TwitPic – Upload pictures from your cell phone or computer to Twitter

TweetDeck – The BEST application for using Twitter effectively (IMHO)

LessFriends – Find out who is (and isn’t) following you back.

TwitterSearch (formerly “Summize”) – A search function of the entire Twitter timeline.

#Hashtags – The origin of and authority on #Hashtags.

Tagal.us – A site where you can “register” hashtags.

Ping.FM – A site that allows you to post updates to multiple SocNets at once

FriendFeed – A site that tracks all your SocNet, SocMed, and blogging activity.

Qwitter – A site that notifies you when someone UNfollows you on Twitter along with the last Tweet you posted… which may or may not have caused the UNFollowing. Just don’t take it personally!

TwitterFeed – Allows you to automatically Tweet your Blog posts.

TwitterKeys – A web tool in that makes it easy to copy and paste special characters into your Tweets.

TwitterFox – A FireFox plug-in that puts the Twitter API into the bottom of your browser for quick n’ easy Tweeting.

TwitterCounter – A site that tracks your follower growth over time and predicts your future growth.

Twellow – Twitter Yellow Pages

WeFollow – Like Twellow but much simpler. Simply pick three Hashtagged categories. (ie: @LayersMagazine is registered on WeFollow under #creative, #design, and #Adobe)

TweetStats – A site that tracks the frequency of your Tweets among other cool things.

TwitterGrader – A site that scans your Twitter profile and gives you a grade based on many different analytical factors.

FileSocial – Cool! A way to share files on Twitter!

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Great and thorough article! I’ve noticed that people who don’t tweet usually don’t get it and often have some really strange preconceived notions.

Tweet on, sister!

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Comment by Kerilyn | June 16, 2009 @ 7:44 pm

Great article !Thanks a bunch cant wait to share this!

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THX!
…will share
GRT!! info…

peace-

Comment by Rickbischoff | June 22, 2009 @ 12:18 am

Insightful — and quite on the money. Would love to see your labels and descriptions for (shall we say, less annoying?) Twitter Types!!

Comment by MarketingVeep | June 22, 2009 @ 1:13 am

Thanks! =)
S’funny… Your comment inspired me to try to come up with some Twitter Types for the “less annoying” set but I couldn’t really think of any. ;D
A savvy Tweep who knows how to give a nice balance of conversation, information, entertainment, link sharing and value needs no other classification than “Follow-worthy,” eh?

Comment by Nancy Masse | June 22, 2009 @ 3:37 pm

Thanks, Nancy! Your article was like a starter kit that accelerates the Twitter learning curve. In conjunction with TIME’s article by Steven Johnson, I have both context and direction to get moving.

Comment by John Whitesell | June 28, 2009 @ 12:56 pm

Excellent article Nancy! I’ve been tweeting The Auto Gallery for a short time now and your advise is really helpful. Thanks for spelling it all out and providing this valuable information!

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Great article, Nancy, and valuable advise. Thanks. I’m going to tweet your article to my group.

Comment by Karen Chengelis | July 30, 2009 @ 12:37 am

What a great article – Like Dawn Ive found the people who dont get twitter are the ones who havent actually used it . Ive already sent the link to your article to some of my workmates who fall into the above group ( so I cant retweet it to them!!)

Comment by Lauren Bavin | August 27, 2009 @ 5:43 pm