5 new Twitter tools to check out
Posted on April 6, 2009 at 5:49 am
Lately, I’ve been trying to use Twitter to post useful information on all things tech related and also to get news and info faster. It’s definitely been a fun experience and I’ve also met quite a few helpful people along the way.
Overall, I don’t think I’ll ever be a hard core Twitter user with lots of tweets a day, but I can’t see myself not using it either. I use it more to gain information rather than give out information.
One thing for sure is that there are a lot of cool tools and utility apps that extend and enhance the Twitter service. In this article, I am going to write about a few new Twitter apps that I came across in the last month that look promising and cool. Some are in beta, some are not, so if you like the idea of what the app does, bookmark it.
Yahoo Sideline is one of the newer Twitter apps that has gotten a lot of attention recently. It’s basically a real-time monitor of the Twitter public timeline. It’s built using Adobe Air and it lets you create custom queries and group them by topics of interest.
It has some cool features that make it one of the better tools to search Twitter for useful info:
- Custom search groups
- Advanced query builder for search
- Automatic refresh of your custom search queries
- Ability to monitor trending topics in Twitter
If you have your own business or are an inspiring entrepreneur, then you will really like ExecTweets. You can use it to quickly find and follow top business executives on Twitter.
Plain and simple, it’s pretty neat. I’ve been following the CEO of Zappos, Steve Case, Guy Kawasaki, and a couple of other top people. A lot of the tweets are tips, advice, links to reading, etc that can help business people build their businesses.
The site also has a section for top links, hot topics, and most popular business tweeters. There is also a section for community tweets, so you can talk to other people who are tweeting on the site about business, etc.
Now this is a nifty little Twitter extension. It’s a Firefox add-on that goes through all your tweets on Twitter, extracts all the links, and posts them to your del.icio.us account!
This is great because one of the main uses of Twitter for me is to check out all the cool links people are posting. Now it may be worthwhile to create a separate delicious account for all these links that will be posted.
Using this service, you’ll never miss out on another cool link posted to Twitter! Definitely worth it unless you are following 50,000 people, which will make it kind of difficult to keep track of with the sheer number of links.
Eventually, I am hoping the plugin is updated with filters, etc, so you can track links from specific people only.
TweetDoubler is an interesting little Twitter service that is currently in beta, but will allow you to double the number of characters you can post to Twitter.
How does it work? Not really sure actually, but according to the site, it uses some kind of compression algorithm to allow up to 280 characters in a single tweet!
I personally believe in trying to make every tweet fit into 140 characters, but if you really can’t do it in that many characters, check out this service.
twendz is another tool like Yahoo Sideline that allows you to track topics on Twitter in real-time. The cool thing about twendz is that it works in your browser, so you don’t have to download an application to your desktop.
You can see top trends and start tracking all conversions with particular hash tags or words in them. It also gives you a list on the side of top subtopics for the word or phrase you searched.
You can then drill down and read only tweets on those subtopics. Also, you can reply to any tweet that might interest you.
I’ve used it many times for keeping up to date on a current event and it’s very helpful.
So that’s my list of new and cool Twitter tools to check out! If there are other ones you prefer, post a comment and let us know your favorite Twitter tool! Enjoy!
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I love twitter, thanks for sharing.
I really like the one about posting the links. Now that is cool.
@Miss Virtual Reality – No problem! There are always so many new Twitter tools and services coming out every week, I can’t keep up myself.
@Gusin – Yeah I really like that one too, very useful!
@Mark – I probably should have put that in the post, eh? hahaha My Twitter ID is akishore. You can check me out here:
http://twitter.com/akishore
Thanks for these, I’m also new to twitter, and social networking in general. What is your twitter id?