Do You Have a Great List of Twitter Tools?

by Lesley

Ok, you get it now (or maybe, not so much yet) that you must jump in on the Social Media Relationship phenomenon know as - 

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So…now that you are on board with Twitter (or thinking strongly that it would be a really good idea to see what all the hub-bub is about), know that a great list, chock full of tools, is essential.  See what you can discover from these very useful, and some fun links. 

  • 140it - Makes Your Tweet Less Than 140 Characters
  • Tweetcontd - More than 140 characters
  • Twonvert - Convert your tweets to 140 characters or less
  • Twitlonger - When 140 characters just isn’t enough
  • Tweetshrink - Helping shave those few extra letters off a tweet that has exceeded the 140 character maximum
  • TwitBlogs - Allows you to add more words and also upload pictures and videos
  • Twerbose - Post longer tweets on Twitter
  • Tweet140 - The closer to a 140 character average, the better your score

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Backgrounds and Buttons

Browser Plugins

  • TwitterFox - TwitterFox is a Firefox extension that notifies you of your friends’ status on Twitter
  • TwitterBar - Post to Twitter from your address bar
  • Power Twitter – Makes Twitter better
  • TwitterLine - Twitter headline extension for Firefox
  • Twitter Search – Twitter search
  • StockTwits - Links stocktwits tagged ticker on Twitter back to StockTwits
  • Twitzer - Lets you post text longer than 140 characters on Twitter
  • TwitterJobSearch - The world’s first job search engine to harness the power of Twitter
  • Feedly - Feedly weaves your favorite content into a fun, magazine-like start page
  • Instant Tweets – Instantly send pages, pictures and tweets to Twitter from any where on the web
  • Tweecious - Listening to your twitter feed and submitting all the links to your delicious account
  • TwitKit - TwitKit is a Twitter sidebar
  • TwittIE - Make your Internet Explorer tweet
  • Twitbin - Allows you to keep up with all of your Twitter conversations right from your browser sidebar
  • DashBlog - Lets you collect videos, images, text, songs and screenshots from any web page and publish them to your blog or twitter
  • Social Whale Extension – Create short URLs for use on Twitter
  • shortText - Twitzer is a Firefox extension which lets you post text longer than 140 characters
  • TwitThat - Post current page to Twitter via twitthat.com
  • Song.ly – Lets you share music links on Twitter
  • TwittyTunes - Allows to post your currently playing songs to Twitter
  • Tweetstalk - The simple way to stalk Twitter users without having to follow them
  • Yoono - Yoono simplifies your social life by centralising all your social networks and instant messaging in one easy to use browser sidebar
  • Twippera - Twitter widget for Opera

Business

  • CoTweet - Designed for businesses using Twitter to engage existing customers and attract new ones
  • ComTweets - Twitter + business
  • twtQpon - Create Twitter coupons for your business
  • Twtvite - A simple event manager twitter app
  • Twitzu - Promote your events on Twitter
  • TweetManager - Twitter app for complete Twitter automation

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Dating and Love

  • Flirt140 - Flirt140 is a site that helps Twitter-ers find each other for dates and more
  • MyTweetHeart - Twitter singles looking for friendship, romance, and love
  • Radaroo - The simple and free Twitter dating system
  • Twitcrush - Which three tweeple do you <3 the most
  • Textgasm - Twitter secrets
  • PornstarTweet - Stay up to date with your favourite pornstars

Desktop & Web Clients

  • Tweetdeck - TweetDeck connects you with your contacts across Twitter, Facebook and more
  • Seesmic Desktop– Desktop client connecting you to Twitter and Facebook
  • Destroy Twitter– DestroyTwitter is a compact though robust Twitter application built to run on Mac, Windows, and Linux
  • Twhirl - Twhirl is a social software desktop client
  • Chirpr - Windows sidebar gadget for Twitter
  • Accessible Twitter – Web accessibility for the Twitter web application
  • Pwytter - Multi-platform Twitter client written in Python
  • Mixero - The new generation Twitter client for people who value their time and are tired of information noise
  • Snitter - A Twitter client for Mac and Windows
  • TweetMyPC - TweetMyPC lets you shutdown/restart/LogOff your windows PC remotely
  • Posty - Posty simplifies your microblogging
  • Sideline - Watch, search and monitor the Twitter public timeline in real-time
  • Twitexplorer - The most efficient Twitter client on the Web
  • Nambu - Social messaging streamlined
  • Tweetie for Mac – Twitter client for Mac
  • Teletwitter - Twitter client for Windows
  • Digsby - Digsby is a social networking tool that alerts you of events like new messages
  • Twitteroo - Send Twitter tweets fromyour PC
  • Twinja - A desktop client Twitter built on AIR
  • Tweeter - A java desktop client for Twitter
  • Gwibber - Gwibber is an open source microblogging client for GNOME
  • TwInbox - Use Twitter directly from Outlook
  • MadTwitter - Twitter for Windows
  • Spaz - An open-source Twitter client for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux
  • Twitteron - A robust, easy to use, free twitter client for all operating systems
  • Tweetr - Twitter client for Mac / PC
  • Twittm - Twitter for desktop
  • Jata - Just another Twitter app
  • Spreadtweet - IT’s Twitter disguised as a spreadsheet
  • Blu - The Vista Twitter client
  • bDule - Twitter client for Windows
  • Statuzer - Twitter client running through Air

 

Matthew Tommasi      thesocialmediaguide.com.au

 

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{ 2 comments… read them below or add one }

Adam June 19, 2009 at 12:17 pm

Hey Lesley,

This is an amazing list and a great resource for twitter stuff! Wow!

I just download the new tweetdeck (on my computer and on my iphone) and I love it!

You’re getting up there in your twitter followers – that’s great!

Thanks again for the post.

Adam

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Julie Newman July 31, 2009 at 9:32 pm

Wow Lesley,

Great list! I’m new to IM and about ready to step into the twitter world. Your list certainly makes it less intimidating. :-)

~ Julie

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