Twitter Resource Guide: Apps and External Tools

Twitter apps and other tools can really enhance the way you use Twitter. Here are a few that we find useful:

To View and Manage Multiple Accounts

• Ping.fm
  This site lets you connect to your social media accounts and post messages to all of them at once. In addition to Twitter, Ping.fm also links to Facebook, LinkedIn, Blogger, and many more.
• Tweetdeck
  Tweetdeck is an application that lets you view streams of updates from multiple accounts. You can download it for your computer or smart phone, or use it in Google Chrome.
• HootSuite
  HootSuite lets you manage multiple accounts and plan tweets in advance.

To Manage Your Timeline

• Slipstream
  Slipstream lets you hide annoying or uninteresting tweets by filtering out certain users or keywords from your timeline.
• Tweriod
  This site lets you see statistics about when your followers and the people you follow are most often using Twitter.
• WeFollow
  A directory of popular and influential Twitter users sorted by category.
• Tweet Grader
  Every wondered how influential your tweets are? This site lets see your Twitter influence, based on your total number of followers, tweets and retweets.

Tools for Sharing Videos, Links and Other Media

• TwitVid
  TwitVid lets you upload videos and tweet them as links. As with yfrog and TwitPic, these videos can be viewed in the details pane, or on the TwitVid site.
• Ow.ly
  Ow.ly lets you post tweets with links to uploaded images and files. You can also use Ow.ly to shorten other links you wish to share, which gives you more room to include other text in your tweets.
• TwileShare
  TwileShare lets you share a wide variety of file types as a link on Twitter.

• Bit.ly
  You can use Bit.ly to shorten links that you include in your tweets, so they do not take up too much of your 140 character limit.

Tools for Keeping Organized

• Remember the Milk
  Remember the Milk lets you create to-do lists and add tasks via Twitter. You can set it to tweet reminders at you when your tasks are due.
• Evernote
  This site lets you keep track of your ideas by tweeting short notes to an online notebook.

Visualizing Twitter

• A World of Tweets
  This page creates a virtual heat-map of the world based on the number of tweets from a location.
• Clould.li
  Search Twitter in a more interesting way, with this word-cloud search visualization.