Top 5 Twitter Tools

If you use Twitter for business here are 5 of the best Twitter tools

Twitter can be overwhelming for many users and even worse for website owners. It is debatable whether twitter is even necessary for any business or website and many do it because they feel they will be looked down upon by customers for not having it, or not being so up to date. Fortunately there are many tools out there to help automate the job and help you grow your business on top of it. Keep in mind there are many websites trying to capitalize on the twitter crazy so it’s tough knowing which tools are free and which are helpful.

The list below shows the only twitter tools you need and you can simply ignore the rest.

Social Oomph

www.socialoomph.com
For now this site is free but you can pay money to upgrade some special features. For now you don’t need the extras. Social Oomph is great for automating your welcome messages when someone follows you, also known as a DM or direct message. So when someone follows you, you can automate a message saying ‘hey thanks for following me, for more tips visit my website.

Twellow

www.twellow.com
Twellow is the Twitter Yellow Pages. It’s main feature is for finding people and it’s a better search function than trying to find people on Twitter’s search function. Twellow helps you find people who have similar interests or have a keyword that you’re looking to market to. So if someone has the word ‘lottery’ in their profile you can easily find these people and follow them or contact them. Probably half the people you follow will follow you in return. This is a good way to build your list of followers and you never know which new follower will become a customer.

Twitter Mutuality

www.twittermutuality.com
If you like to follow people to collect followers then at some point you will have a limit of how many people you can follow, which lately is around 2000 enforced by twitter. If you find you’re not allowed to follow any more people it’s time to even out your followers and the people you’re following. Basically you got to clean your twitter list and remove those who are not following you in return. Just login and select ‘unfollow those who don’t follow you back’ and let the website run it’s magic.

Tweet Deck

www.tweetdeck.com
This program runs as an application on windows, mac, linux  or ubuntu computers. If you have more than one Twitter account this is a great tool for posting tweets using one interface. You can login all your accounts and adjust the settings to use tweetdeck however you want.

Twitter Tools

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-tools/
Twitter Tools is a plugin for Wordpress where your blog posts give you the option to tweet them without having to repost manually with twitter.

In conclusion Twitter is useful if you can automate as much of it as possible so it doesn’t become time consuming manual labor where you have to stress over the time put in versus results.

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