6 Twitter Tools You Want to Use

Twitter is a fun and useful social networking tool but it’s basic webpage leaves a few things to be desired. Thankfully there are plenty of folks willing to tweak Twitter for us.  Here are a few new and not-so-new Twitter Tools you want to use to get the most out of Twitter:

TweetDeck is a well-known and loved Twitter Tool.  I’ll confess that I’m not in love with TweetDeck.  I enjoy the ability to create groups but for reading my main tweet stream it feels awkward to me.

TwitterFox, a Firefox Add-on, is also well-known and quickly becoming my favorite Twitter Tool.  I love the look and feel of it, that I can reply and shorten urls, and that it takes up a small amount of screen real estate.

Twitter Search, another Firefox Add-on, is also quickly becoming one of my favorites. After installing this add-on you will have a Twitter option in your search bar.  I’m a huge fan of anything that let’s me stay in my browser window!

TweetBeep is like Google Alerts for Twitter.  You fill out a form setting up what terms you want TweetBeep to alert you for.  Then they will email any alerts that appear hourly or daily, depending on your setting.  It’s a great way to keep an eye on your Twitter reputation.
#hastags, another search tool, shows you how many times a specific hastag has been used and links to each one.  It also sorts #hashtags by popularity and most recent.  A great tool to use when setting up a new hastag.

NutshellMail allows you to read tweets from your email inbox.  Once an hour, or less often if you want, Nutshell emails the most recent tweets of those you are following, allows you to tweet from the email, shows who has started following you and who has unfollowed you AND allows you to do the same all from the one email.  Did I mention you can also reply, DM and retweet?  And that’s just for Twitter!  You can also link email addresses and Facebook into your NutshellMail.

Well, those are just 6 tools for Twitter I’ve been using.  Each one has great benefits but none of them are the perfect tool for me so I’ll keep searching.

What Twitter tools are you using?  Have you found the perfect one, yet?

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  1. Felicia - I Complete Me on April 1, 2009 at 4:13 pm

    This is a great post. I am still not all that comfortable with twitter and I don’t know what tools would be best to use. So this post is great!. I think I may need to start bringing my own laptop to work so I won’t download all this stuff on this computer.



  2. Lynette on April 1, 2009 at 5:11 pm

    Hey Felicia, it is a good post thanks to Stephanie. She did a great job. Personally I use TweetDeck a lot because of the grouping feature.



  3. Stephanie on April 1, 2009 at 5:58 pm

    Thank you, Lynette for the opportunity to write a guest post!

    Felicia, the more you play with Twitter the more comfortable you will become. Just do it! 🙂