I know some of you may think I am going crazy with all this twitter stuff. But, to be honest, twitter is an outstanding marketing tool if you use it right. In fact, our traffic has increased and I have come to actually know some interesting individuals from my twitter experience. And if there is one thing I have come to discover over the last couple of weeks from twittering is this. The conversations you have and the people you come to know can lead to interesting things. Just today, I was having a twitter conversation with Laura Spencer who has a great blog called Writing Thoughts.

Anyway, Laura was looking for tools to make her twitter experience better and I being the techie geek I am, gave her a link to twitthis, a great tool to send to your twitter what you are doing at that very moment. I use twitthis to send to twitter blog post I might be reading at the moment. It is like twitter on autopilot.

Our conversation also got me to thinking, why not do a post about the tools I have discovered which make my twitter experience that much better. And quite frankly that much more productive. If there is one complaint I am getting from those who I got involved with twitter over the last few days it is that they are overwhelmed with the amount of incoming tweets. And they ask, how do you tweet all you do and find the time to do anything else. I use tools. Tools available to everyone.

Here is a list:

twitter clients

Well thats it. Those are the ones I am using or trying. I know there are others out there, but I only have so much time in the day. If you know of others I have not listed, please leave a comment to this post so we all can check them out.

Recently, Problogger “asked his followers on twitter to nominate their best post from the past week with a URL and title.” And Darren stopped the influx of post at 73 Top Posts from the Last Week.

It was another great idea from Problogger that I know increased his traffic. As I saw a huge increase in my own traffic here on Home Office Warrior. Darren’s request on twitter for our best post and his use of the results is just one more example of the power of twitter. And it just shows the results of what happens when you get a link to your blog placed in a top rated blog. By participating on twitter and responded to Darren’s request, I was able to take advantage of the networking power of twitter. And quite frankly, it took no more effort than pasting a URL and a quick typing of the title of the post to get a link on Darren’s blog.

If used as more than a way to tell your friends you are going out to dinner, twitter is a great networking, marketing tool you can use for your home based business. I started using twitter a little less than a month ago and I have already witnessed firsthand its incredible power. You owe it to yourself to check it out if you are not twittering. And if you have an account and are not using it, use it.

To see the entire list of 73, go HERE. And be watching soon for a similar request from the Home Office Warrior. If you are not on twitter, than you will miss out. And if you are not following me @grantgriffiths, you will also miss out.