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My Essential Twitter Tools

Categories: MicroMediaPosted on April 5th, 2008

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?

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  1. http://tweetburner.com/ - twurl statistics



    2. Posted by eef on April 5th, 2008 at 10:36 am

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



    3. Posted by Dennis Howlett on April 5th, 2008 at 10:37 am

  3. 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. Posted by Andrew Cafourek on April 5th, 2008 at 10:38 am

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



    5. Posted by Deirdre on April 5th, 2008 at 10:39 am

  5. Andrew

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



    6. Posted by jeremiah_owyang on April 5th, 2008 at 10:39 am

  6. [...] My Essential Twitter Tools 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. 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 [...]



    7. Posted by Louis Gray s Favorite: Not fav.or.it | Latest News Blog on April 5th, 2008 at 10:43 am

  7. 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. Posted by Michiel Berger on April 5th, 2008 at 10:44 am

  8. 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. Posted by Rachel Luxemburg on April 5th, 2008 at 10:48 am

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

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



    10. Posted by Mike on April 5th, 2008 at 10:50 am

  10. [...] My Essential Twitter Tools 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. 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 [...]



    11. Posted by Sweet Saturday Swag | Latest News Blog on April 5th, 2008 at 10:52 am

  11. [...] My Essential Twitter Tools 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. 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 [...]



    12. Posted by What are Hubpages? | Latest News Blog on April 5th, 2008 at 10:52 am

  12. [...] My Essential Twitter Tools 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. 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 [...]



    13. Posted by wiki:syndication | Latest News Blog on April 5th, 2008 at 10:53 am

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



    14. Posted by Anita Campbell on April 5th, 2008 at 10:53 am

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    15. Posted by Fight the Future? (#3 of ??), aka Overheard, in this case I m sorry to say | Latest News Blog on April 5th, 2008 at 10:54 am

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    17. Posted by Tele Atlas Premium Services | Latest News Blog on April 5th, 2008 at 10:57 am

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    18. Posted by RSL: RSL not feeling at Home vs. Chivas | Latest News Blog on April 5th, 2008 at 10:57 am

  18. 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. Posted by lo-fi on April 5th, 2008 at 11:02 am

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



    20. Posted by lo-fi on April 5th, 2008 at 11:05 am

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



    21. Posted by Dave C. on April 5th, 2008 at 11:07 am

  21. Tweetburner looks cool thanks @eef!

    I have been testing out http://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.

    http://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.



    22. Posted by Adam Gershenbaum on April 5th, 2008 at 11:07 am

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    27. Posted by Louis Gray s Favorite: Not fav.or.it | Latest News Blog on April 5th, 2008 at 11:12 am

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    28. Posted by wiki:syndication | Latest News Blog on April 5th, 2008 at 11:12 am

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    31. Posted by Providing good quality educational podcasts We are accredited | Latest News Blog on April 5th, 2008 at 11:15 am

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



    32. Posted by Lawrence Liu on April 5th, 2008 at 11:19 am

  32. 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. Posted by paisano on April 5th, 2008 at 11:24 am

  33. @paisono @lo-fi awesome resources!



    34. Posted by Adam Gershenbaum on April 5th, 2008 at 11:38 am

  34. 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. Posted by Wayne Sutton on April 5th, 2008 at 11:57 am

  35. @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



    36. Posted by Aaron Strout on April 5th, 2008 at 12:09 pm

  36. [...] designed to increase use of this medium. Jeremiah Owyang has a great post on this subject called My Essential Twitter Tools. Check it [...]



    37. Posted by Microblogging: A quick-start guide « Fluent Simplicity on April 5th, 2008 at 12:10 pm

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



    38. Posted by Sonny Gill on April 5th, 2008 at 12:21 pm

  38. 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. Posted by engtech on April 5th, 2008 at 12:42 pm

  39. 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…



    40. Posted by funkyboy on April 5th, 2008 at 1:18 pm

  40. [...] “Often, people will blog about the conversations that happen in twitter, the conversation shifts back to blogs.” - Jeremiah Owyang [...]



    41. Posted by Twitter Tip: Know When You Are Being Talked About | by AJ Vaynerchuk on April 5th, 2008 at 1:31 pm

  41. [...] [From My Essential Twitter Tools] [...]



    42. Posted by Jeremiah Owyang - My Essential Twitter Tools | Contagious Solutions on April 5th, 2008 at 2:00 pm

  42. 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



    43. Posted by bhc3 on April 5th, 2008 at 3:03 pm

  43. [...] course we could all resorts to making those silly ass lists about things that we just can’t live without when really they are nothing more than lists to fill spaces and hopefully during a boring enough [...]



    44. Posted by WinExtra » What to write about on a boring Saturday on April 5th, 2008 at 3:26 pm

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



    45. Posted by Scott K on April 5th, 2008 at 4:19 pm

  45. [...] Owyang has a post up today, My Essential Twitter Tools. He lists seven things he uses to get the most out of Twitter. Among the items are [...]



    46. Posted by FriendFeed RSS Is a Fantastic Discovery Tool « I’m Not Actually a Geek on April 5th, 2008 at 4:39 pm

  46. [...] My Essential Twitter Tools - Top 6 Twitter tools [...]



    47. Posted by Cool stuff i’ve been reading from April 1st to April 5th | blending the mix on April 5th, 2008 at 5:34 pm

  47. 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/



    48. Posted by Rob Williams on April 5th, 2008 at 5:59 pm

  48. [...] or so great post on twitter, this one titled “My Essential Twitter Tools” from Jeremiah Owyang. It highlights how a service (that long left behind it’s cell phone roots) has become [...]



    49. Posted by Your Twitter Autobiography - Sean Percival's Blog on April 5th, 2008 at 6:26 pm

  49. 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. Posted by sean percival on April 5th, 2008 at 6:41 pm

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



    51. Posted by Teresa Valdez Klein on April 5th, 2008 at 8:06 pm

  51. [...] Owyang, Plaxo, Twitter Influential Forrester analyst and veteran blogger, Jeremiah Owyang, recently posted on the topic of “essential Twitter tools.” I can certainly relate, as an increasingly [...]



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    53. Posted by Essential Twitter Tools - Viloria.net on April 5th, 2008 at 11:00 pm

  53. 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.



    54. Posted by Randy Ray on April 5th, 2008 at 11:28 pm

  54. [...] My Essential Twitter Tools (tags: twitter tools apps reference links) [...]



    55. Posted by links for 2008-04-06 « Romulo Lopez Cordero on April 5th, 2008 at 11:32 pm

  55. [...] My Essential Twitter Tools [...]



    56. Posted by Daily Post 04/06/2008 on April 5th, 2008 at 11:38 pm

  56. 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.



    57. Posted by erwin blom on April 5th, 2008 at 11:41 pm

  57. [...] My Essential Twitter Tools (tags: Twitter) [...]



    58. Posted by links for 2008-04-06 | Shawn's Thoughts on April 6th, 2008 at 1:34 am

  58. [...] My Essential Twitter Tools (tags: Twitter) [...]



    59. Posted by links for 2008-04-06 « Shawn’s Link Blog on April 6th, 2008 at 1:51 am

  59. 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. Posted by Andrea Vascellari on April 6th, 2008 at 2:50 am

  60. 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. Posted by Bill Heaton on April 6th, 2008 at 2:52 am

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



    62. Posted by Bill Heaton on April 6th, 2008 at 3:18 am

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



    63. Posted by pixites on April 6th, 2008 at 3:31 am

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

    and many more…



    64. Posted by Kevin on April 6th, 2008 at 4:32 am

  64. Useful twitter poll http://strawpollnow.com/



    65. Posted by Scabr on April 6th, 2008 at 6:54 am

  65. hm it is interesting…
    check this one http://www.bookhoteltravel.com



    66. Posted by Gugum on April 6th, 2008 at 7:17 am

  66. 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. Posted by Jeremy on April 6th, 2008 at 7:37 am

  67. 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. Posted by Steve Ellwood on April 6th, 2008 at 8:15 am

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



    69. Posted by Nantucket Art on April 6th, 2008 at 8:35 am

  69. 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. Posted by Curt on April 6th, 2008 at 10:28 am

  70. for those of you interested, we at http://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. Posted by Samski on April 6th, 2008 at 1:42 pm

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



    72. Posted by lightstuff on April 6th, 2008 at 2:49 pm

  72. [...] Jeremiah Owyang (aka @jowyang ) Many conversations are shifting to Twitter, this post proves it (network with others, by adding [...]



    73. Posted by Essential Twitter Tools | Whatsup on April 6th, 2008 at 4:44 pm

  73. 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.



    74. Posted by Ontario Emperor on April 6th, 2008 at 5:51 pm

  74. [...] @jowyang recently listed a number of helpful Twitter app’s. [...]



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    77. Posted by links for 2008-04-07 : Armchairgeek on April 6th, 2008 at 9:34 pm

  77. 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. Posted by Justin on April 6th, 2008 at 11:45 pm

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

    Thanks, Jeremiah and Thank you all!

    alain



    79. Posted by Alain Yap on April 7th, 2008 at 12:50 am

  79. [...] what Jeremiah lists as the essential twitter tools of the [...]



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    81. Posted by Comcast - Another Twitter Customer Service Success Story « Marketing Nirvana on April 7th, 2008 at 1:29 am

  81. [...] My Essential Twitter Tools [...]



    82. Posted by Your iPhone News Blog | Phototweeting Apps for your iPhone! Send images to Twitter. on April 7th, 2008 at 4:43 am

  82. [...] inspirert av My Essential Twitter Tools av Jeremiah Owyang kommer her en oversikt over mine anbefalinger. For en mer utdypende og omfattende oversikt over [...]



    83. Posted by Twitterverktøy : arnsteinblogg 2.0 on April 7th, 2008 at 5:57 am

  83. [...] propper ned i halsen på dig.Hvis du vil videre:Følg mig på Twitter: pcheick og hent et par twitter Tools. Begynd selv med [...]



    84. Posted by Twitter hitter - men hvorfor? | Digital Frontier - nyt fra det digital grænseland on April 7th, 2008 at 3:34 pm

  84. [...] My Essential Twitter Tools (tags: tips web2.0 twitter howto free) [...]



    85. Posted by John From Berkeley » links for 2008-04-08 on April 7th, 2008 at 6:02 pm

  85. [...] http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2008/04/05/my-essential-twitter-tools/ [...]



    86. Posted by Many conversations are shifting to Twitter, this post proves it? at Blackstone Media Blog on April 7th, 2008 at 6:06 pm

  86. [...] My Essential Twitter Tools [via Zemanta] [...]



    87. Posted by Пет начина да намерим повече приятели в Twitter « Здравей, свят! on April 8th, 2008 at 1:43 pm

  87. [...] My Essential Twitter Tools Good stuff to run through (tags: twitter twhirl) [...]



    88. Posted by links for 2008-04-10 | roblef dot com on April 9th, 2008 at 5:43 pm

  88. 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



    89. Posted by Mari Smith on April 10th, 2008 at 1:32 am

  89. [...] My Essential Twitter Tools (tags: twitter) [...]



    90. Posted by links for 2008-04-11 « Dmartel’s Weblog on April 11th, 2008 at 9:03 am

  90. [...] like this are empowering.  Jeremiah Owyang runs Web Strategy by Jeremiah where he outlined some additional tools you can use to improve your Twitter experience.  I recommend you check that out if/when you set up an account.  Then be sure and [...]



    91. Posted by JetBlue uses Twitter - Listens to Customers, Grabs New Business « Market Culture Blog on April 16th, 2008 at 4:22 pm

  91. [...] over at Web Strategist has written a post about his essential Twitter tools, in which Hash Tags are mentioned. A good read as well! Share This: These icons link to social [...]



    92. Posted by Hash Tagging with Twitter | Social Jump - Social Media Insights for Marketers on April 17th, 2008 at 11:45 pm

  92. These tools are great! As newbies to Twitter, we are certainly interested in making the most of out our experience with it. Good to see a list in one place with such tools that can assist us. :)



    93. Posted by Search Engine Optimization Journal on April 18th, 2008 at 7:54 am

  93. [...] My Essential Twitter Tools - great tips with specific examples of tools [...]



    94. Posted by Everything a Higher Education Marketer Should Know About Twitter | .eduGuru on April 20th, 2008 at 7:10 pm

  94. 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.



    95. Posted by Doug on April 22nd, 2008 at 6:32 am

  95. 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!



    96. Posted by Rebecca Krause-Hardie on April 22nd, 2008 at 11:12 am

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

    Cheers
    @spangles



    97. Posted by Angella on April 22nd, 2008 at 11:17 am

  97. [...] Essential Twitter Tools - Liste mit Twitter-Mashups [...]



    98. Posted by Timo Heuers Weblog » Linksammlung “Twitter” on April 23rd, 2008 at 5:46 am

  98. [...] My Essential Twitter Tools Expand and enhance twitter with a selection of tools and tricks as used by Web Strategist Jeremiah Owyang [...]



    99. Posted by MKTG2032 Links Post 18: More on twitter and lifeblogs « Mktg2032’s Weblog on April 24th, 2008 at 4:36 pm

  99. 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!



    100. Posted by djchuang on April 29th, 2008 at 1:58 pm

  100. [...] http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2008/04/05/my-essential-twitter-tools/ - Essential Twitter Tools [...]



    101. Posted by » Blog Archive » TwitterMania - So Much Buzz & The Cream of Mashup Applications on May 7th, 2008 at 3:01 pm

  101. thanks much, bro



    102. Posted by AbavaipupeFub on May 7th, 2008 at 4:00 pm

  102. [...] there are tons of Twitter app’s out there - Lee Odden lists 5 newer ones & @jowyang has a good list [...]



    103. Posted by Ideas for Using Twitter | Connie Bensen on May 7th, 2008 at 7:22 pm

  103. […] Extra twitter reading […] Essential Twitter Tools […]



    104. Posted by efimor on May 7th, 2008 at 8:08 pm

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



    105. Posted by Brian Bentzen on May 10th, 2008 at 1:20 am

  105. 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



    106. Posted by Barbara Ling on May 12th, 2008 at 6:41 am

  106. [...] post about five new Twitter tools you can use. And Jeremiah just posted an update to his list of 7 essential Twitter tools. He’s now using Summarize to search Twitter content, since it can follow conversations.  [...]



    107. Posted by Online PR technology trends | Sally Falkow | The Leading Edge » Blog Archive » Analysts are Using Twitter Too on May 12th, 2008 at 7:20 am

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



    108. Posted by Tim Chemacki on May 12th, 2008 at 8:15 am

  108. [...] My Essential Twitter Tools - Web-Strategist.com [...]



    109. Posted by 101 Twitter Resources | Traffikd on May 12th, 2008 at 5:16 pm

  109. [...] 7. Because of it’s popularity and ease of use, many many third party applications have been developed to enhance the Twitter experience.  Well-documented social media expert Jeremiah Owyang discusses some of them in this post. [...]



    110. Posted by “Retweeting” a post about Twitter « Peder with a D on May 13th, 2008 at 10:34 am

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



    111. Posted by Evert-Jan on May 16th, 2008 at 7:28 am

  111. [...] Web Strategy by Jeremiah: My Essential Twitter Tools [...]



    112. Posted by Get More Out of Twitter: Top Posts, Links and Tools | Sheri Larsen's Flying Cloud on May 17th, 2008 at 8:30 am

  112. 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



    113. Posted by Chris Reed on June 6th, 2008 at 1:36 pm

  113. [...] there are tons of Twitter app’s out there - Lee Odden lists 5 newer ones & @jowyang has a good list [...]



    114. Posted by Twitter | Digital Scrapbooking Info on June 8th, 2008 at 7:15 pm

  114. [...] My essential Twitter tools | Jeremiah Owyang [...]



    115. Posted by An Ultimate Guide to Social Media Simplification | Andy DeSoto on July 9th, 2008 at 4:32 am

  115. [...] I finished the first draft of this column, I returned to a post from Jeremiah Owyang on how he uses Twitter and noticed my four examples mirrored his first four of seven. It’s [...]



    116. Posted by Social Media Report » Blog Archive » Searching For Tweets on July 10th, 2008 at 6:19 am

  116. [...] Wag 8 Awesome Firefox Plugins for Twitter at Mashable Ultimate Twitter Resource by Arvind Jose My Essential Twitter Tools at Web-Strategist.com Simple Twitter Resource at Ext337 10 Ways Twitter Can Boost Your Social News [...]



    117. Posted by Ultimate Twitter Resource and Promotional Guide on July 23rd, 2008 at 12:18 am

  117. [...] My essential Twitter tools (Jeremiah Owyang) [...]



    118. Posted by Sanity check: 10 tools that will make you a Twitter power user | Tech Sanity Check | TechRepublic.com on July 27th, 2008 at 6:43 pm

  118. [...] Wag 8 Awesome Firefox Plugins for Twitter at Mashable Ultimate Twitter Resource by Arvind Jose My Essential Twitter Tools at Web-Strategist.com Simple Twitter Resource at Ext337 10 Ways Twitter Can Boost Your Social News [...]



    119. Posted by Ultimate Twitter and TweetBurner Resource | Web Data Source on August 13th, 2008 at 10:13 am

  119. hey great list but dont forget

    http://www.tweeterized.com



    120. Posted by David on August 24th, 2008 at 10:36 pm

  120. [...] My Essential Twitter Tools [...]



    121. Posted by Four tools for tracking Twitter — Alec Saunders SquawkBox on August 31st, 2008 at 6:02 am

  121. [...] A list of various tools to help you get more out of Twitter can be found at Jeremiah Owyang’s Web Strategy blog. [...]



    122. Posted by List of Lists of Twitter Tools | Internet Marketing for Real Estate on September 3rd, 2008 at 11:00 am

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



    123. Posted by Ruby Web on September 9th, 2008 at 1:18 am

  123. 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.



    124. Posted by Greg Huntoon on October 1st, 2008 at 11:13 am

  124. [...] My Essential Twitter Tools - Web-Strategist.com [...]



    125. Posted by 89 Twitter Tools, Articles, and Resources on October 4th, 2008 at 10:24 am

  125. [...] My Essential Twitter Tools [...]



    126. Posted by links for 2008-10-09 « fnerd.com on October 9th, 2008 at 9:30 pm

  126. [...] Wag 8 Awesome Firefox Plugins for Twitter at Mashable Ultimate Twitter Resource by Arvind Jose My Essential Twitter Tools at Web-Strategist.com Simple Twitter Resource at Ext337 10 Ways Twitter Can Boost Your Social News [...]



    127. Posted by Ultimate Twitter Resource and Promotional Guide - deep sweet blog on October 23rd, 2008 at 11:18 pm

  127. How much is your Twitter profile worth? Check http://tweetvalue.com



    128. Posted by Jonas on November 20th, 2008 at 12:36 am

  128. [...] http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2008/04/05/my-essential-twitter-tools/ [...]



    129. Posted by Twitter – IM Meets Social Networking | Kent Beatty dot Com on November 25th, 2008 at 9:56 am

  129. [...] My Essential Twitter Tools A small handful of resources; worth a look. [...]



    130. Posted by Thomas W.P. Slatin » Blog Archive » Speedlinks #9 - Twitter Tools on November 27th, 2008 at 9:07 am

  130. [...] My Essential Twitter Tools [...]



    131. Posted by ChurchCrunch » Blog Archive » Twitter for Ministry and Church - A Business Perspective on December 1st, 2008 at 5:34 am

  131. Thanks for providing this listof Twitter tools. I’m a big Twitter user myself.

    I’m also working as an intern at Webbed Marketing, a social media marketing agency. As Twitter fans, and fans of 80s rock, we recently recorded a Twibute to Twitter: Pour Some Twitter on Me. I hope you’ll give it a listen, and if you like it, add it to your list of links.

    http://www.webbedmarketing.com/twitter.html

    Thanks, please let me know if I can provide any additional information.



    132. Posted by Erin on December 7th, 2008 at 10:01 am

  132. [...] of twitter tools and services exist to improve the experience (Here are a few from Jeremiah Owyang and Lee Odden). At the crux of the burden though is merely staying abreast of the updates without [...]



    133. Posted by Easier way to love Twitter and Facebook | SEO'Brien - Search & online marketing blog on December 18th, 2008 at 4:20 pm

  133. [...] “My Essential Twitter Tools “(Web Strategy by Jeremiah) [...]



    134. Posted by blog.e-healthgr | Twitter tales. The dirty adventure begins… on December 26th, 2008 at 2:51 am

  134. [...] such tools play in your business strategy. Web strategist Jeremiah Owyang offers his list of “Essential Twitter tools” to help you get started. Sarah Milstein, a Web 2.0 consultant, offers tips on putting Twitter to [...]



    135. Posted by SmartBlogs On SocialMedia » Blog Archive » Microblogging – a primer on January 5th, 2009 at 12:47 pm

  135. I have been working on a tool http://www.rsstotwitter.com which does as the name says, takes rss feeds and sends them to Twitter.



    136. Posted by Dale Hurley on January 14th, 2009 at 3:23 am

  136. Thanks for the great list of twitter tools - much appreciate!



    137. Posted by jackie on January 18th, 2009 at 4:24 am

  137. [...] looking for Twitter tools. I think Mulluane is using TwitKit, but my friend Mr. Google took me to this article, on the basis of which I think I am going to try [...]



    138. Posted by Cheryl’s Mewsings » Blog Archive » Twitter Fears Confirmed on January 23rd, 2009 at 12:14 pm

  138. Have just started using Twitter. I cant believe I havent started earlier! Its only been one day and im addicited.

    Thanks all for the tools im sure they will help with my addiction.



    139. Posted by Jarrod brake from Party Supplies Now on February 2nd, 2009 at 2:06 am

  139. Great list of tools, you can also find one interesting tool http://www.tweetwhatyoueat.com a fun in fun :)



    140. Posted by Jag SEO Follow on February 12th, 2009 at 5:48 am

  140. Jeremiah,

    I’d like to recommend http://www.tweetconvo.com - it’s a Twitter tool to thread Twitter conversations for better understanding.

    Cheers!



    141. Posted by Noobpreneur on February 13th, 2009 at 7:58 am

  141. [...] Question of the Week: What twitter tools are your favorites and why? Jeremiah has a good list [...]



    142. Posted by Now with More Excuses! | Marketing Over Coffee Marketing Podcast on February 18th, 2009 at 7:32 pm

  142. Interesting blog, i have bookmarked it for future referrence



    143. Posted by virsale on February 23rd, 2009 at 4:37 pm

  143. [...] web-strategist.com has listed Jeremiah’s favourites. [...]



    144. Posted by Blog of Change » Twitting my head off…not really but learning on March 2nd, 2009 at 5:09 am

  144. There are some really great Twitter apps for sure. I rely on Tweetdeck and Tweet Later a lot. Wish someone would write something that combines many of the great features in to one smokin Twitter app!



    145. Posted by Britt Phillips on March 7th, 2009 at 2:13 pm

  145. [...] More Links from Elsewhere JTwitter - the Java library for the Twitter API TWITTER TOOLBOX: 60+ Twitter Tools Twittermania: 140+ More Twitter Tools! My Essential Twitter Tools [...]



    146. Posted by Twitter Tools I find Useful and Fun « Synaptic Light on March 8th, 2009 at 12:14 pm

  146. Here’s a list I compiled myself, with all the most up-to-date tools

    http://www.placona.co.uk/blog/post.cfm/my-top-favourite-twitter-tools



    147. Posted by Marcos Placona on March 10th, 2009 at 7:29 am

  147. [...] My Essential Twitter Tools - [...]



    148. Posted by Bookmarks for 03/10/2009 on March 10th, 2009 at 10:01 am

  148. [...] Essential Twitter Tools [...]



    149. Posted by How 1 Tool Can Raise Your Twitter Marketing Consciousness | Small Business Internet Marketing and Consulting on March 17th, 2009 at 7:35 pm

  149. I’m still on the fence with Twitter… I think it can be useful, but are enough people beyond the age of 13 using it. And, if so, is anyone really listening?…

    http://gadget.ology.com/2009/03/17/twitter-is-it-worth-it/

    -Jared J. H. Catapano (ology.com)



    150. Posted by Jared J. H. Catapano on March 20th, 2009 at 11:41 am

  150. [...] For more on essential Twitter tools, please read Jeremiah Owyang’s recent post. [...]



    151. Posted by TwitterLocal Connects You to Local Voices | PR2.0 on March 20th, 2009 at 9:01 pm

  151. Can I recommend http://www.twttrblogs.com Great new site.



    152. Posted by Nick on March 30th, 2009 at 9:28 pm

  152. [...] Some Essential Twitter tools [...]



    153. Posted by Some Twitter Links « ivida on April 8th, 2009 at 8:24 am

  153. [...] My Essential Twitter Tools [...]



    154. Posted by Twitter Stuff | The Power-Teams Update on April 15th, 2009 at 12:10 pm

  154. Thanks for posting such a wonderful source of Twitter information. Twitter has become quite a social media tool, hasn’t it? I recently wrote a blog about Twitter on the internet, What the Tweet?. When you get a chance, please stop by and read it. I would appreciate any comments you have to offer on OceanZealot’s Ramblings



    155. Posted by OceanZealot on April 17th, 2009 at 4:55 am

  155. that is some good information. I think it is important new users or people that are wanting massive followers can use the same tools upcoming signed recording artist are using. I found 3 links that a new recording artist is using and people say will have over a million followers soon!
    If you are wanting over a million I suggest you get on board with them before they get banned!

    http://tweetpenguin.com/theyoungdread
    http://tweetergetter.com/theyoungdread
    http://twitteringfortraffic.com/theyoungdread

    -j. eubanks



    156. Posted by jason eubanks on April 22nd, 2009 at 5:30 pm

  156. Nice Article. For my german fellows: Die 12 besten Twittertools: http://www.kunstundso.com/2009/04/22/die-12-besten-twitter-tools/



    157. Posted by stefan on May 9th, 2009 at 10:18 am

  157. [...] Web-strategist: Essential Twitter Tools [...]



    158. Posted by SUPERCOMENTÁRIO · Preto no Branco on May 20th, 2009 at 1:41 pm

  158. [...] http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2008/04/05/my-essential-twitter-tools/ [...]



    159. Posted by My Twittonary – Every Twitter Term and Tool I Can Find | Wizpress.com on June 1st, 2009 at 2:51 pm

  159. [...] course we could all resort to making those silly ass lists about things that we just can’t live without when really they are nothing more than lists to fill spaces and hopefully during a boring enough [...]



    160. Posted by What to write about on a boring Saturday — Shooting at Bubbles on June 1st, 2009 at 10:49 pm

  160. Have you tried TwitterHIT.net? - searches the timeline, then groups tweets as people - then choose to add to your profile.

    Chris Denman



    161. Posted by Chris Denman on June 3rd, 2009 at 6:48 am

  161. [...] My Essential Twitter Tools – Web-Strategist.com [...]



    162. Posted by TWITTER Social Networking Site Info « OnTheAvenues-SEO on June 18th, 2009 at 1:11 pm

  162. Great post! Have you checked out Ref.ly? It’s an amazing new tool for turning Bible verses into short URLs.



    163. Posted by Justin K. on June 22nd, 2009 at 2:00 pm

  163. http://www.buzzom.com/

    1. People Search : Find people with keywords in their Bio and follow them.
    2. Cross Follow : Find people who are following some account, or who are followed by some account. They can then be mass followed with ease.
    3. Mass Follow/Unfollow (one will get the list and he can chose the people to follow or unfollow)
    a) Flush — Unfollow who do not follow you
    b) Grow — Find and follow people who are likely to follow back
    c) Reciprocate — Follow your followers 4. Direct Operation — Mass Follow/Unfollow people directly without choosing from the list 5. Follow Lock / Unfollow Lock — Lock people who you don’t want to follow or unfollow with Buzzom



    164. Posted by rc983 on June 26th, 2009 at 3:59 am
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