Essential Twitter Tools to Make Tweeting Life Easier

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Twitter tools can enhance your Tweeting experience while saving time too. The Twitter tools/ applications bellow will make your Tweeting life a lot easier. Whether you are Tweeting for fun or marketing your business, website, blog, or charitable cause these tools will make everyday life on Twitter a lot simpler. Some of these tools have features that overlap and you may find you only need a of couple tools on this list but please explore decide which suit your needs best. There are tons of Twitter tools/ apps available now and most serve a great purposes but all of the tools listed below can be great additions to your Twitter tool box.
  1. TweetLater- They offer both a professional and free service. The free service offers more than enough features for most Tweeters( the non-business users anyways). My favorite feature of TweetLater is the automation and scheduling of tweets and direct messages.
    Bleow is a list for all of their free services, for: TweetLater's Professional Service

    Ø Schedule tweets — Plan, set & forget!

    Schedule tweets and keep your Twitter stream ticking over with new tweets even when you're not in front of your computer. Publish tweets when your international followers are online and you're asleep.

    Ø Track keywords on Twitter — Empower yourself!

    Set up alerts and track keywords in the public Twitter stream. We will monitor the Twitter tweet stream and periodically email you a digest of the tweets that contain those keywords. You can also use this to track your @replies.

    Ø Save and reuse drafts — Save hours of typing!

    Save draft tweets, frequently used text snippets and URLs and reuse them in your scheduled tweets. Save tons of time by avoiding repetitive typing.

    Ø Send welcome DMs to new followers — Automate!

    Send a nice non-promotional DM to new followers that focus on them and your future interaction with them, or simply to thank them for choosing to follow you.

    Ø Bit.ly URL shortening — Track those clicks!

    Add your bit.ly URL shortening account details to your TweetLater profile, and we will shorten your links with it so that you can track the clicks on all your links.

    Ø Follow those who follow you — Automate!

    Automatically follow people who follow you and save a ton of time while your Friends list builds itself.

    Ø Unfollow those who unfollow you — Automate!

    Automatically unfollow someone when they unfollow you if that is how you prefer to manage your Friends list.

    Ø Vet new followers — Semi-automation!

    Even though you've selected to auto follow new followers, we will interrupt the process for 72 hours and give you an opportunity to manually review new followers and decide if you want to follow, ignore, or block each new follower.

    Ø Purge your DM Inbox — Keep it tidy!

    You will probably agree that it's a bit of a pain to manually delete DMs from your Inbox, especially since they accumulate so quickly. You can run a purge on your Inbox to delete everything, or DMs older than 7 days, or DMs older than 30 days.

    Ø Personal status feed — Your own tweet engine!

    Grab your own personal 140-character tweet scheduling engine and RSS feed. You can schedule and publish tweets that don't go to Twitter, they go to your personal tweet stream, which is available in RSS, XML and Javascript formats.

    Ø Unlimited Twitter accounts — No charge!

  2. OptMeOut- If you feel you are getting to many automated direct messages from TweetLater it can be stopped through OptMeOut. Just visit their Twitter page and follow the instructions, its just 4 simple steps.

  3. TweetDeck- When you have more than 100 followers then you may want to try TweetDeck. It is an Adobe Air desktop application loaded with features on an easy-to-use dashboard. My favorite feature of TweetDeck is its group feature. It allows you to create groups based on interest/ niches and organize your followers into them. This is essential as your following grows it gets overwhelming to keep track of your followers and it keeps you very organized. Here is a list of Tweet Deck's features:

  • Tweet directly from TweetDeck
  • Stay up to date – view all new tweets in real-time
  • Use columns to create your personal dashboard
  • Create Groups to easily follow friends, colleagues or other interest groups
  • Update Facebook and follow your Facebook friends
  • Follow topics in real-time with saved searches
  • View @replies and direct messages and manage your conversations
  • Never miss an important tweet with notifications
  • Share your photos and videos with Twitpic and 12seconds
  • And many more Twitter favorites including Stocktwits, Twitscoop and all the most popular URL shortening services
Video of the Latest Version of TweetDeck:

TweetDeck v0.21.5 from Iain Dodsworth on Vimeo..

4. Tweet Burner- This is a great tool to shorten and track your URLs. It is easy to sign-up and very easy to use. In fact you do not even need to sign-up for an account to shorten a link, only if you want to track it. I have even shorten and tracked links that I used on FaceBook and Squidoo. Tweet Burner still has more to offer as their stats page is currently disabled but you can stll track your link's stats under the archieve tab. Under archieves you can look up indivdual stats for your link such has total clicks to your link, how many clicks in the first and last 24hrs. of posting your link, and which sites your link was directed from( like Twitter).

5. Friend or Follow- If you want to close the gap between who you are following and who is following back then Friend or Follow is the tool to use. Simply enter your user name and Friend or Follow will bring up all of the users who are not following you back. You can sort them by name, last tweet, age of account, number of followers and following. From there you can decide who you want to follow back are not. You can also view who you are not following back and who are your mutual friends. It can take a lot of time to sort through users and unfollow them so you my want to visit Friend or Follow at least once or twice a week. As far as who to unfollow is up to you, it may turn out you want to follow all those who are not following you back, in that case there is less or no work for you.

6. WeFollow- One of the best Twitter directories, if not the best out there. If you are not on it add yourself immediately. Even if you already belong to another Twitter Directory it is a good idea to add your Twitter account to all the directories out there, after all the more exposure the merrier. I feel like the best of Twitter is on WeFollow, so add yourself because you belong with the best!


There you have it, the tools I feel are essential and practical for everyone to at least give a try for maximizing your Twitter experience. If I missed a favorite essential tool of yours add in the comments box below.
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