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My Essential Twitter Tools

Find me at jowyang on Twitter

Many conversations are shifting to Twitter, this post proves it (network with others, by adding those in the comments). Twitter is extensible, and many third-party developers are creating tools around the simple data being exported for a variety of unique applications.

If you’re using Twitter for personal, corporate use, or to manage the brand of a client, you’ll need the right tools to find and engage the discussions.

Here are the tools that I’m using to improve my Twitter experience, note that all of these are using my profile, but you can change to fit your needs.

1) Client: Although I mainly use the browser to see what’s going on (I click on profiles to see what people have said) Twhirl is the most popular client, using adobe air technology. Leave this on your desktop, instead of going to browser, also these clients may be more accurate in seeing who’s replying to you, unlike the browser version.

2) Search: Use Tweetscan (Update: I now use Summize as it can track conversations) to see who’s talking about you, your brand, or a topic you’re interested in. For example, I may not just search on “jowyang” but also on “owyang” as some don’t use the full name.

3) Conversations: Quotably is the top ‘conversation’ tracker, it threads together the discussions that members are having by looking at the replies, interesting to see how conversations spiral into different threads.

4) Aggregation: Friendfeed puts all of our RSS content onto one page, making it easy to see from one glance (rather than going to different properties) and you can even reply from friendfeed to different tools. It’s smarter to organize around people, rather than tools.

5) Tagging Content: For advanced users, you can start to use the hashag “#” to add metadata around any tweet, this becomes more important as we rate and tag content. Here’s a helpful primer. I’m not making much use of this feature –yet.

6) Location Based:
If you live in a particular area, and want to parse out a specific location, this Twitterlocal filter finds tweets based upon a users profile location. If you’ve a local business, this could become useful.

7) Alerts:
(update) Often, people will blog about the conversations that happen in twitter, the conversation shifts back to blogs. As a result, I setup Google Alerts for the phrase @jowyang, I see it appear 3-5 times a week on blogs. Thanks Andrew for the reminder in the comments.

I should add that I check to see who is replying to me from my mobile phone, and sometimes update from mobile phone.

Out of the 6, now 7 tools I listed above, which ones do you use, or are there others you recommend?

124 Comments so far

  1. eef April 5th, 2008 10:36 am

    http://tweetburner.com/ - twurl statistics

  2. Dennis Howlett April 5th, 2008 10:37 am

    Eventtrack is good for temporarily aggregating conversations around a topic item.

  3. Andrew Cafourek April 5th, 2008 10:38 am

    A couple passive tools that I’ve found useful:

    Don’t forget a Google Alert for your username. I set one up for @acafourek a few months ago so I can see when my username rather than my real name is referenced in a blog post somewhere out there.

    You can also claim your twitter page on Technorati to monitor who is linking to it from posts.

  4. Deirdre April 5th, 2008 10:39 am

    Thanks, Jeremiah. I’m always learning something new from you! I wasn’t aware of Twitterlocal. I’m going to check it out :)

  5. jeremiah_owyang April 5th, 2008 10:39 am

    Andrew

    Good reminder, that’s right, I have “@jowyang” setup for Google alerts. Good tip, I’ll add to list

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  7. Michiel Berger April 5th, 2008 10:44 am

    I second @eef’s suggestion, http://tweetburner.com is a very good tool to track how many people click a link you’ve shared on twitter. Very useful to see what your followers like!

  8. Rachel Luxemburg April 5th, 2008 10:48 am

    Ugh, please, not hashtags! They’re Ok for one-off purposes (like the Superbowl ad thing), but I really don’t like seeing them inserted in day to day twittering.

    Twitter is a human communication vehicle, regular use of hashtags removes some of the humanity.

  9. Mike April 5th, 2008 10:50 am

    I like to check out http://www.twitterverse.com

    It’s a site that pulls words that are tweeted often.

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  13. Anita Campbell April 5th, 2008 10:53 am

    Nice list, Jeremiah. I was actually researching to find a tool like Quotably when I saw your tweet about this quote. Terrific timing. Anita

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  18. lo-fi April 5th, 2008 11:02 am

    I have compiled a collection of Twitter tools here - http://www.lo-fi-librarian.co.uk/?p=878 - not all of them are useful, but you might find something interesting.

  19. lo-fi April 5th, 2008 11:05 am

    Or can be viewed here - http://twitterapps.wordpress.com/
    My faves include Twitterific, (the essential) Twitterfeed, and the greasemonkey script for GReader.

  20. Dave C. April 5th, 2008 11:07 am

    Jeremiah: Consider this another vote for you to stay away from hashtags. My rationale is over here. Write for people, not databases.

  21. Adam Gershenbaum April 5th, 2008 11:07 am

    Tweetburner looks cool thanks @eef!

    I have been testing out www.digsby.com which is an IM based client. It stores my twitter account, facebook account, myspace account, as many email accounts as I can store, and IM accounts. It has been pretty smooth. I also use twitterbar in the FLOCK browser.

    www.titterfeed.com lets you set any blog to feed to twitter so I have found that useful.

    I track @agershenbaum on google and sometimes get alerts though that say my name or screen name is mentioned but I can’t find it on the page anywhere
    usually from technorati.

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  31. Lawrence Liu April 5th, 2008 11:19 am

    Tiny Twitter .. for those of us, who don’t have iPhones. :-)

  32. paisano April 5th, 2008 11:24 am

    Thanks for including my post on hashtags as part of this impressive list of tools! Glad it can help others as it has for me.

    I think the twitter fan wiki is an excellent resource kit in of itself. http://twitter.pbwiki.com especially the apps section! Invaluable information and links.
    All maintained by hardcore twitter members.

    Pai

  33. Adam Gershenbaum April 5th, 2008 11:38 am

    @paisono @lo-fi awesome resources!

  34. Wayne Sutton April 5th, 2008 11:57 am

    Great post, I use them all. Everyone doesn’t understand hashtags, glad to see you linked to @Paisano blog url.

    I don’t see http://TweetStats.com on the list. It’s not everything we would like to see for twitter stats but it’s a start.
    http://www.tweetstats.com/graphs/waynesutton

    @waynesutton on twitter

  35. Aaron Strout April 5th, 2008 12:09 pm

    @jowyang - one other service that I use regularly is twittermail.com (tweetscan.com also has a flavor that’s good at catching @’s irrespective of where they appear in the tweet.) Twittermail will email you a list of all tweets referencing your @username.

    Two other interesting tools are http://twemes.com if you do follow hash tags and http://dossy.org/twitter/karma/ (a must for tracking who’s following you and comparing it to who you are following back.)

    Best,
    @astrout

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  37. Sonny Gill April 5th, 2008 12:21 pm

    Great list Jeremiah. I utilize 5 of the 7 tools that you bulleted.

  38. engtech April 5th, 2008 12:42 pm

    What’s killer for me is this Greasemonkey script that puts a Twitter client directly into Friend Feed, so that you can tweet from the Friend Feed homepage.

    http://internetducttape.com/2008/03/27/greasemonkey-scripts-friend-feed-twitter-client-and-remove-visited-links/

  39. funkyboy April 5th, 2008 1:18 pm

    Hi, may I suggest a microblogging tool which allows to manage twitter, jaiku, pownce and tumblr accounts?
    http://spreadingfunkyness.com/posty-beta2/
    Still beta. But growing fast…

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  42. bhc3 April 5th, 2008 3:03 pm

    I’ve actually started to use a combination of #2 (Twitter search) and #4 (FriendFeed).

    You can do a search on terms for FreinedFeed, and get an RSS feed of the results. You pick up more than just Twitter that way. You can include Jaiku, Pownce, new blog posts, Tumblr, sites someone StumbleUpon’d, etc.

    More comprehensive than Tweetscan. This guy has the hack that turns FriendFeed search results into an RSS feed: http://tinyurl.com/2ogwlg

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    Socialthing tops Friendfeed any day of the week: http://socialthing.com/

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  47. Rob Williams April 5th, 2008 5:59 pm

    I’ve made a switch that I really like. Instead of using thwirl (which I really like), I’m not using a firefox plugin called twitterfox and utilizing the device updates in twitter. I explained it on my personal blog: http://rob.orangejack.com/2008/03/31/device-updates-on-twitter/

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  49. sean percival April 5th, 2008 6:41 pm

    Jeremiah,

    Nice recap of some of the many twitter services out there. Over at mahalo our Twitter page (http://www.mahalo.com/Twitter) is one of the most active. The page is already huge and there are 191 submitted links waiting to be checked.

    I wrote a post about “you twitter autobiography” linked above. Yet another thing to use this unicorn powered service for. :)

    Take care,
    Sean

  50. Teresa Valdez Klein April 5th, 2008 8:06 pm

    I’m a big fan of the Hahlo Twitter client for iPhone.

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  53. Randy Ray April 5th, 2008 11:28 pm

    Part of the reason that conversation threads on Quotably seem to spiral, is that there isn’t enough information in the packet of a single tweet to identify the specific tweet it’s responding to. So the web site (and clients, and services like Q) go to the quoted timeline and look for the tweet closest in time to the response. But if I reply to one of your messages, but you’ve sent two more since I saw the one and composed my reply, these services associate my reply with the later one, not the one I’m actually replying to.

    Personally, more than most of the features people are clamoring for, I’d like to see messages that are replies able to explicitly refer to the tweet they’re referencing.

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  56. erwin blom April 5th, 2008 11:41 pm

    The power of Tweetburner (http://www.tweetburner.com) is that you can track the usages of the links you put in Tweets. Helps you find out what others find valuable about what you communicate.

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  59. Andrea Vascellari April 6th, 2008 2:50 am

    Hi Jeremiah!

    Here’s a post I wrote in case you want to bring Twitter comments to your blog ;)

    http://www.andreavascellari.com/blog/?p=385

    Andrea

  60. Bill Heaton April 6th, 2008 2:52 am

    Perhaps I’ve spent too much time building pages on the internet instead of playing on the web. Thanks for posting these tools! The tweetburner tool looks cool for internet marketing.

  61. Bill Heaton April 6th, 2008 3:18 am

    Oh, yeah what about http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress who wrote Twitter Tools for WordPress? anyone use it?

  62. pixites April 6th, 2008 3:31 am

    as the first commenter stated: tweetburner.com is da bomb!

  63. Kevin April 6th, 2008 4:32 am

    There are many twitter tools that make life easy..
    - http://twittervision.com/
    - http://www.twittermeter.com/
    - http://grouptweet.com/

    and many more…

  64. Scabr April 6th, 2008 6:54 am

    Useful twitter poll http://strawpollnow.com/

  65. Gugum April 6th, 2008 7:17 am

    hm it is interesting…
    check this one www.bookhoteltravel.com

  66. Jeremy April 6th, 2008 7:37 am

    Thanks for the Twitter resources Jeremiah. My favorite client for Twitter is Snitter (over Twirl), for two main reasons. First because I can go full screen, and two because when I click on a link it opens a new tab.

  67. Steve Ellwood April 6th, 2008 8:15 am

    I’ve blogged about my experience and use; since the disappearance of terraminds, I use tweetscan, too.

    I find that some individuals drown the conversations, so use RSS extensively (including the RSS feed for my tweetscan for @steveellwood), and for a quick check on my follower/following status I use Twitter Karma

  68. Nantucket Art April 6th, 2008 8:35 am

    Alex King’s Twitter Tools is great wordpress plugin for blog/twitter integration http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-tools/

  69. Curt April 6th, 2008 10:28 am

    I update almost exclusively from my Netvibes page, which I keep open all the time I’m online. I use Tweetscan, especially to find out who’s talking about clients.

  70. Samski April 6th, 2008 1:42 pm

    for those of you interested, we at www.petites-phrases.com have a kind of “open” twitter channel on the right hand top corner.

    We parse all Twitter messages using twitterfeed, then republish the RSS feed. Easy to set up, and quite fun to follow.

    Just add “PP2008″ to your twit’, you’ll appear on our website.

    (if you use the # before PP2008, you’ll also generate stats with Hashtags, but you need to follow @hashtags first on Twitter)

    hope you’ll find it interesting

    @petitesphrases

  71. lightstuff April 6th, 2008 2:49 pm

    Coming from the expert, will have to use more often. Don’t forget about Twitterlights…new feature from i-Lighter.

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  73. Ontario Emperor April 6th, 2008 5:51 pm

    TweetScan is an absolutely essential tool, which helps you find tweets in which your handle may be somewhere in the middle. For example:

    “@oemperor you should read that post by @jowyang”

    TweetScan was down for a few hours on Saturday, and that was almost as bad as losing Twitter itself.

    While I’m a fan of FriendFeed, I don’t know that I’d classify it as a “Twitter tool,” since it aggregates so many things. But it’s a good tool nonetheless.

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  77. Justin April 6th, 2008 11:45 pm

    I don’t know if it can actually be described as a ‘tool’ in the sense it is being used here, but I pulled in a lot of news feeds from the UK gov (www.twitter.com/hmgov) so I could use twitter and track UK gov news releases at the same time.

  78. Alain Yap April 7th, 2008 12:50 am

    I’d have to include this post as Essential Twitter Resource, too.

    Thanks, Jeremiah and Thank you all!

    alain

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  87. Mari Smith April 10th, 2008 1:32 am

    Awesome post, Jeremiah. I just shared on Facebook.

    I use Tweetscan a lot - I’ll search for @myself, @ other users and for keywords to see what’s being talked about real-time related to a project/client I’m working with.

    I also like Twitter Karma http://dossy.org/twitter/karma/ and Twubble http://www.crazybob.org/twubble/

    Thanks for the heads up on #3 & 4!! :D

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  93. Doug April 22nd, 2008 6:32 am

    For twitter search I perfer what summize.com has put together — twitter.summize.com

    It brings more to the table than tweetscan and does a better job. The ajax refresh is a nice feature to make it truly real-time.

  94. Rebecca Krause-Hardie April 22nd, 2008 11:12 am

    I’ve given up on twirl. It kept giving me messages that I’d exceeded limit of tweets…one every day or two is excessive?? :>) Great List Thanks!

  95. Angella April 22nd, 2008 11:17 am

    This has done the rounds today for those who want to prune friends: http://zottmann.org/tts/

    Cheers
    @spangles

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  98. djchuang April 29th, 2008 1:58 pm

    Rather than using extra client software, I use two Firefox add-ons: Twitterbar https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4664 and Twitbin https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5021 - much lighter-weight, and doesn’t use up as much memory, hard drive space, or CPU cycles, and works so well!

  99. AbavaipupeFub May 7th, 2008 4:00 pm

    thanks much, bro

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  102. Brian Bentzen May 10th, 2008 1:20 am

    I use Twhirl, www.twitter.com and www.hellotxt.com :-)
    Best Regards
    Brian Bentzen

  103. Barbara Ling May 12th, 2008 6:41 am

    I use Twirl and for the most part, it works out pretty well (not a whole huge heapin’ amount of crashes).

    Can I also mention my contribution for Twitter - the humor site http://www.TwitterBudgie.com ? All the worlds’ twitter problems solved, one parallel universe at a time. :)

    Enjoy,

    Barbara

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  105. Tim Chemacki May 12th, 2008 8:15 am

    Thanks for this list! I use already use Thwirl and Friendfeed.

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  108. Evert-Jan May 16th, 2008 7:28 am

    You should tie together Twitter “client” and “location” items, and then Twinkle for iPhone needs a mention.
    Its definitely worth checking that one out.

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  110. Chris Reed June 6th, 2008 1:36 pm

    I’ve just set up http://www.twitterfund.com - partly to see if fans would be prepared to pay something for it. Would love you to stop by and let me know what you think. Even with the $15M in the bank.

    Will people pay to tweet?

    Chris

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  117. David August 24th, 2008 10:36 pm

    hey great list but dont forget

    http://www.tweeterized.com

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  120. Ruby Web September 9th, 2008 1:18 am

    I’ll try out this twitter service and all these tools. Thank you for this post!

  121. Greg Huntoon October 1st, 2008 11:13 am

    Twhirl (http://www.twhirl.org/) is a useful tool for sure. Especially if you are managing multiple twitter accounts, or if you want to monitor twitter, plurk, identi.ca and friendfeed accounts all in one place.

    I have 3 that I update regularly, as I really try not to mix a bunch of mindless personal crap into my twitter feed. I also try to un-follow folks that are disrupting my day with the same kinda crap.

    TweetDeck (http://www.tweetdeck.com/), however is taking it over for me. It’s SO useful in fact, that I am using it to manage my main account, and have twhirl open to manage/monitor the other two accounts that I update less frequently. I rarely follow the conversations on those other two accounts, so it works out perfectly.

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