The twitter Tools of a Home Office Warrior

Apr 03, 2008

images.jpegI 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:

  • As mentioned above, twitthis is one I would not be without. Works great.
  • The next one I would not want to be without is twitterfeed. This handy little tool allows you to feed your blog post to twitter. I am only feeding one of my blogs to twitter and that is this one. I don’t want to be accused of spamming twitter with my blog post. But, this tool gives you a great way to put your blog out there to even more possible readers who just might become regular.
  • tweetpeek is another one I am currently just starting to look at . However, this one allows you to create a group of twitter feeds for your company, your industry, or you community. This might be the answer for those who want to better organize the tweets which come in.
  • One that just might come in handy is TwitPic. TwitPic allows you to share your photos on twitter. You can also use this one with your cell phone.
  • FriendFeed is another one of those tools which will help you organize all of the twitters you are following and getting in. I just wish there was an easy way to import all of the twitters I am following into friendfeed. If anyone knows how, drop a comment to this post.
  • TweetAhead gives you a way to schedule when your twits might be posted. This one has some bugs on when it actually does the tweet so I am not sure if this one will be a viable tool. Time will tell.
  • Another one I have been playing around with is TweetScan. TweetScan is a real-time search engine for twitter posts. TweetScan can also do your searches automatically and email them to you if you like.

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  • TwitterFox is a Firefox add-on that basically allows much quicker posting and responding.
  • twhirl is one that I have used and it is a good one. In fact, if it wasn’t for the fact I am already using the next one, I would use twhirl as my only twitter client.
  • The twitter client I am using is twitterrific. It is Mac only and it does cost. Only $14.95, but it cost. Twitterrific sits on your desktop like twhirl, but it takes up a very small footprint. It lets you both read and publish posts to twitter.

    • 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.

    Social Media, twitter Written By Grant Griffiths

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    3 Responses to The twitter Tools of a Home Office Warrior

    1. ClosetEntrepreneur
      April 3rd, 2008 | 6:01 pm

      I found Twitter Local to be an easy way of finding individuals on Twitter in your neck of the woods: http://www.twitterlocal.net/

      And a friend of mine create Twixxer which uses a Greasemonkey extension for Firefox that lets you view videos and photos on Twitter posts: http://twixxer.com/

      As for the Twitterrific, it’s free if you don’t mind the hourly ad that pops up. :)

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    2. Laura Spencer
      April 3rd, 2008 | 7:16 pm

      Thanks Grant! I’m still getting my feet wet with Twitter. It’s great to be the inspiration behind a post.

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    3. Tina Hilton
      April 3rd, 2008 | 8:32 pm

      I too am just getting the ‘feel’ for twitter. For those of us who depend on Outlook and have it running constantly, OutTwit is an add-on that not only allows you to post your tweets directly from Outlook, but also downloads the feeds of the people you follow and organizes them into folders.

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