In case it wasn’t apparent from previous posts, Twitter is my favorite social network. Of all social media sites, Facebook and Linkedin included, I would much prefer Twitter and use it far more. Not only has Twitter been one of the more enjoyable of the web 2.0 technologies, it’s spawned some amazingly helpful tools to get more out of the technology.

Here is a collection of the most useful or interesting Twitter tools (that I’ve found.)

Summize - This is actually THE Twitter search engine.

Tweetburner.com - Metrics for your links on Twitter.

Tweetscan - Another Twitter search engine, but a very useful one.

Twellow - It’s a different kind of Twitter search, that’s more focused on finding and classifying people, than just giving you a list of tweets by content.
Twitterific - If you have an iPhone, and use Twitter, you probably already have this app. If you don’t have an iPhone this is a great reason to go get one.

Twhirl - I will caveat this by saying I don’t actually USE Twhirl. I did. I’ve downloaded it a couple of times. I can’t get into using it. It’s a cool app, though.

Twittervision - It’s cool, but totally useless. It’s not a Twitter client, it doesn’t aggregate, it will help you make many minutes of your life disappear. Of course, I visit it at least once a day.

Twitter Netvibes Widget - Netvibes is a type of widgetized feed reader and I like it quite a bit. Each feed is visually encapsulated in it’s widget, making them easy to keep apart and scan easily.

Twitpic - I just learned about this and I’m very excited. It allows you to post pictures to Twitter.

I’m sure there are many missing. Please tell me all the cool stuff I’ve missed in comments.

Tags: Blog Marketing, social-networking, social-networking-tools, twitter

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