35 Terrific Twitter Tools for You this Christmas

Twitter needs no introduction in the world of social networking and blogging. Twitter began as a research and development project and then caught the attention of many. It has grown exponentially over the years and now is one of the most popular destination for bloggers and social networking enthusiast. So let us discuss 34 tools that will help you to use Twitter better.

1. TweetWheel

You may have loads of followers. But have you ever seen them all? Ever wanted to see who all follow you? TweetWheel helps you find out visually.

So, bigger the screen, more the numbers you can see on screen.

2. Who Should I Follow?

This is one incredible tool for social networking as well as marketing aspect. Who Should i Follow looks at who’s following you that you’re not following back and has sliders for filtering by popularity and physical location. So next time make sure to follow any big fella who is following you but you are not doing the same in return.

3. Twerpscan

- Well if everyone follows you and you can follow you everyone then, the world would have been a better place to live in. But that is not the case. There are people who you can not and shouldn’t follow. Twerpscan tells you just that

Twerpscan checks the number of followers of everyone on your contact list, the number of people they are following, and the ratio between them offering each follower’s name, bio, last tweet, a reputation thumbs up or down, followers, following and a link to block the follower if the ratio is over the threshold you set.

6. Summize

Searching in twitter is not that easy or effortless. Summize does it for you. As far as I have seen, its better than many.

There is an RSS feed for any search results page as well.

7. Twitt(url)y

Twitt(url)y does a nice job of providing a Techmeme style representation of up and coming URLs that are mentioned in individual Tweets.

You can filter out Tweets by language and what’s neat is that the links are kept accurate whether Tweets use a URL shortening service or not by actually visiting each link. Twitt(url)y is a useful site as an early warning on news and trends.

8. Just Tweet It

9. Twitterfone

Twitterfone is a voice-to-Twitter service for your phone. Dial a number, speak your Tweet and its converted into text. Downside is the service is invite-only at this point.

10. Twitter Patterns

What’s good if the whole interface looks dull? Twitter Patterns helps you in selecting some cool backgrounds.

11. Twitterific

Twitterrific is a fun application that lets you both read and publish posts or “tweets” to the Twitter community website. The application’s user interface is clean, concise and designed to take up a minimum of real estate on your Mac’s desktop.

12. Less Friends

Its almost the reverse of Who should I follow?. LessFriends finds you the people whom you follow but they don’t return the favor. As you have the names, be ruthless if it needs. lol.

13. Twitter Mail

When you provide your Twitter credentials they supply you with a Twitter Mail email address. For instance howareyoudoingtoday@twittermail.com. If you send an email to that address it will be posted to Twitter.com. Also you can receive your latest twitter-replies automatically by e-mail

14. Twitter Feed

This is a fantastic application that automatically post your blog entries to your twitter account by using a tweet feed. Very essential and very useful. I am fond of Twitter Feed to no extent.

15. Snitter

Snitter is an Adobe AIR-powered application for twittering. Features include

• auto-updates tweet list
• highlights messages sent to you via @ syntax (and makes a chirp)
• clear current list of tweets
• refresh list of tweets
• view 20 most recent items in your timeline etc.

16. Hahlo

Formerly known as iTwittr, Hahlo is a a mobile Twitter client for the iPhone.

17. TweetDeck

TweetDeck evolves from the existing functionality of Twitter by taking an abundance of information i.e twitter feeds, and breaking it down into more manageable bite sized pieces. TweetDeck enables users to split their main feed (All Tweets) into topic or group specific columns allowing a broader overview of tweets.

18. EasyTweets

Suppose you have multiple accounts for your Twitter. EasyTweets is a set of tools that can help online marketers leverage the power of microblogging. You can use it to post to and switch between multiple Twitter accounts and do other activities at ease.

19. Twitterkeys

TwitterKeys is a javascript bookmarklet developed to provide you with a floating window with all the funny symbols you can use in Twitter. Twitterkeys includes:

• Emoticons
• warning symbols
• religious symbols
• palette of characters.

20. Flock

Flock is a general Web broswer that comes with a Twitter update toolbar built in. Available for Windows, Mac and Linux.

21. TweetBeep

TweetBeep is like Google Alerts for Twitter! Put in a keyword or website, and get emails when others tweet it!

22. StrawPollNow

Wanna create a new poll on Twitter and then ask friend about their views? Use StrawPollNow and it will help you to log in to Twitter account and then create and manage a poll. You can also ask interesting questions.

23. tWhirl

twhirl is a social software desktop client, based on the Adobe AIR platform. Some of twhirl’s features

• runs on both Windows and Mac OSX
• connects to multiple Twitter, laconi.ca, Friendfeed and seesmic accounts
• notifications on new messages
• shorten long URLs
• post images to TwitPic etc.

24. Quotably

Quotably is an interesting service that enables people to follows threads woven throughout twitter conversations. Follow the conversations and gather information. That’s it.

25. Twemes

Twemes follows public Twitter.com. We can all view what people are talking about across the whole Twitter universe.

26. Twitbin

TwitBin is an extension for firefox that brings the power of twitter right in your browser. Where you can quickly and easily send and receive messages via twitter in your firefox browser.

27. Power Twitter

Power Twitter is a firefox plugin. This Firefox plugin greatly enhances twitter to include:

• photo sharing with embedded flickr photos
• video sharing with embedded youtube videos
• shared tinyurls are unwound so you know where they link to,
• all links are mapped to their web page titles etc.

This is a great application for twitterifics.

28. Twitzer

Twitzer does an incredibly useful thing. It is a Firefox extension which lets you post text longer than 140 characters on Twitter.com. It can also change tinyURL links to actual links if you are not sure to click on a hidden URL.

29. TwitterFox

TwitterFox is a Firefox extension that notifies you of your friends’ statuses of Twitter by adding a tiny icon on the status bar to update their statuses. Also it has a small text input field to update your status. Very useful if you are busy in some work and don’t want to monitor twitter from its homepage but a single application which is easily available at the same webpage where you are working.

30. TwittyTunes

TwittyTunes allows to post your currently playing songs to Twitter with a click. As a bonus, you can also post the websites you’re visiting, videos you’re watching and more!

31. TinyTwitter

Take Twitter on the go with TinyTwitter, a mini-client available for any mobile device that supports Java (including the BlackBerry) or Windows Mobile. Even though you can use Twitter via SMS, TinyTwitter is a great alternative for those who don’t have an unlimited text-message plan with their carrier.

32. Qwitter

Qwitter e-mails you when someone stops following you on Twitter with a message like this:

Dave Sanderson (saddaves) stopped following you on Twitter after you posted this tweet: Why is Dave always worried? lol.

33. GPS Twitter

Where.com’s GPS Twitter adds your current GPS-based location to your Twitter feeds from your mobile phone.

34. Twitterlicious

Twitterlicious is a Windows application that makes using Twitter more fun. It handles all the hard work, leaving you to read and write tweets with the minimum fuss.

Features

• Small and concise UI, shows maximum amount of information in a minimum amount of space.
• Hides itself in the system tray when not needed, and pops up a notification balloon when there’s a new tweet.
• Displays the real read status of each tweet, so you know which tweets are new and can see any that you’ve missed.
• Automatically refreshes itself at user-defined intervals.
• Properly threaded so it won’t lock up if Twitter.com is unresponsive.
• Support for authenticated web proxies

35. Your Twitool?

This place is for you to fill up. Which one do you think should have found a place in this twitter tools? Write to us and we will surely try and add it. Keep twittering.

[Source: noupe.com, networkworld.com]