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Twitter Tools

By Finbar Minstrel

The following is a list of tools that will provide the user with everything they need to turn the social networking site Twitter into a funnel of traffic for their site.

http://tweetmeme.com/ - which lists popular Tweets as well as offering a retweet button for your site pages.

http://www.monitter.com/ - Lets you stream tweets from three different topics in real time onto your screen. This is really useful, especially for news events.

http://twitturly.com/ - tracks and ranks the top URLs that people are talking about on Twitter. A great way of tracking not just your posts, but who else is talking about your site.

http://www.tweetlater.com " allows you to set up tweets to be posted later that day or week. This has advantages and disadvantages, for example many people get irate if they think that you aren't sending tweets live. If they read a tweet minutes after you publish it, then want to contact you or strike up a conversation and you aren't there to talk then they may well unfollow you. Personally I think for the convenience of spreading your tweets out rather than sending several close together then it is worth the potential downside risks.

http://klout.net/ - as your influence within Twitter grows, this tool allows you to keep a record of it.

http://twittercounter.com/ - a tool to show you your Twitter stats as your following expands

http://tweetdeck.com/beta/ - Is my favourite tool for keeping up with twitter in real time.

http://www.twibes.com/twitter-groups - a brilliant tool for finding newsgroups (tribes " twibes) to join and to find new people to follow.

http://www.twitterbackgrounds.com/ - this tool allows you to put one of their free backgrounds on your Twitter page.

http://www.orangatame.com/products/twitterberry/ - this tool is an app for a Blackberry that allows you to tweet from your phone, like Stephen Fry recently did when he was stuck in a lift.

It is common Twitter protocol to follow back those who follow you, but it is not a necessity, you can run your own page as you see fit. I suggest going for quality of tweets rather than quantity because people will then want to read what you write, whereas if youre simply forever tweeting about nothing, then the chances are they wont.

The most important thing is to keep tweeting on a regular basis as this will build your profile and get more people following you.

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