Okay, here’s a teaser for you. What kind of word can you come up with that incorporates some or all of the word “Twitter” to describe a useful business application, tool or service? You have to think that virtually every vowel or syllable combination, acronym or tongue-twister has already been snapped up. Here’s one – twittopten – not an application, but the title for this blog post, detailing the top ten Twitter applications for small business.
Tweetmeme – the place to go to see how many “tweets” the most popular submissions attract. If you are looking for something hot and appropriate for your niche to retweet, here it is.
Tweetlater – if you can see the value of Twitter for your business but are a time management freak, then this app will let you schedule your tweets so that they will be sent out on a regular basis without you having to worry about logging in to do so.
TwitterMass – there are a bunch of these mass “friend adders” out there, but TwitterMass reckons that they have the definitive solution. It’s a paid service, starting at 24 bucks, and their proprietary technology ensures that your “list building” strategies are more targeted than others.
Twist – if your business is involved in affiliate marketing in any way, then you should check out Twist. See which trends are hot right now within a variety of searchable topics and niches.
TwitterContd – if you thought that the Twitter universe was only 140 characters long, then you might be in for a surprise by checking out this application. Now you have up to 1250 characters to compose your best pitch and can upload images, video or audio at the same time.
Twiggit – we all know the importance of bookmarking and this app combines the power of Twitter with one of the best bookmarking services out there. Whenever you “Digg” an article, this app will automatically update your Twitter status with the link.
Twitter Toolbar – get Twitter at your fingertips when you download this toolbar. All the tools will now be at the top of your browser together with stats and a quick and easy place to post an update. Good for IE or Firefox.
Twitoria – get rid of the dead wood, find out who they are, so you can purge those users who do not actively tweet.
Monitter – this is a good one, allowing you to keep an eye on a live streaming view of what Twitter users are saying about your business! Just insert a well thought out keyword or two and the area that you would like to monitor.
Twitter Gallery – if you have a business-oriented Twitter account, you really should have a well thought out background theme. If you don’t have one custom made, surf through Twitter Gallery’s collection for something “off the wall.”
What’s your favorite Twitter application?
Adam Toren
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Adding to list:
http://twittercounter.com/ – Show twitter statistics
http://www.tweetstats.com/ – Graph your Twitter Stats
Adam,
Thank you for this article. I have been a big advocate for utilizing the many tools out there to create a more efficient, robust and rewarding Twitter experience – both as the tweeter for your business, as well as wanting to learn more about others out there as well.
Thanks again, much appreciated!
Guy
Chief Executive Officer
Burlington Boatyard, LLC
@anchored_in_vt
@GuyBBY
Nice list. I’m going to check out Twiggit. I haven’t seen this app before.
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Some other potentially useful Twitter applications:
- TwitPay – http://twitpay.me – Combines Twitter with PayPal so that you can sell content through Twitter.
- TwitterHawk – http://www.twitterhawk.com – Targeted marketing though Twitter.
What about tweetdeck? It’s very useful.
@asiergomez
what about http://twittbank.com ?
This is a nice resource. I will include it in my blog in on of my twitter posts.
twitter meme is pretty amazing it probably brings in around 1,000 page views extra for me.
Thank you for featuring TwitterGallery.com , must add that we also offer custom backgrounds for an accessible price. In any case thank you for linking to our site! Keep it up!
Gotta use http://backupmytweets.com/
Twitter goes down a lot and you can’t search really old tweets and it’s hard to scan even recent ones.
Plus it’s free, so why not back it up?
Thank you for the interesting information. I was looking for something like this to maximise the our company’s campaign on twitter & other social media networks.
Powertwitter.me (if you are running Firefox) is awesome. It aggregates a lot of the twitter apps ‘in-page’. It expands links so you can see spam, but also expands actual picture from Twit pic and any video links from youtube are seen as vids in-page… it is very cool.
I would suggest http://www.twitterhawk.com too
Great reference! Thanks!
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what about CoTweet? http://www.cotweet.com
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I would definitely add Hootsuite. It’s TweetLater + Monitter + Bit.ly + Tweetdeck + cotweet + so much more.
Schedule your tweets, manage multiple accounts, create customized columns and tabs to track everything you want to see.
It has been by far the most helpful tool to handle multiple businesses.
how about hootsuite.com?
You should check out http://www.CloudProfile.com covered in Mashable yesterday. It’s not solely focused on Twitter, but does handle multiple Twitter accounts while also supporting Facebook integration, a search optimized web presence, an integrated online engagement stream, and a combo of other elements that are aimed at helping small businesses to be found and engage online.
Hello. I run into this event while searching for some marketing tips as a newbie on entrepreneur world. I thought I’d share this to all.
Regards,
Jenn
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Tweetdeck is recommended to manage multiple accounts, simplifies things completely http://tweetdeck.com/beta/ (free).
Twitter Hawk is great for automatically retweeting when a particular keyword is used in a tweet http://www.twitterhawk.com/(paid).
Twellow is a great tool to find your potential target profiles http://www.twellow.com/
this is a useful post. I could add some of it to my business resource list.
Thanks.
http://www.twitterlogos.com has tons of free logos and icons!
The link you posted for Twitter Gallery is incorrect, here’s the correct one: http://twittergallery.com/ (should remove the index.html).
Thanks for this list. We haven’t really used any of these applications yet. I look forward to see how they can benefit us. Thanks again.