Today I am talking about Twitter helpers I use. Twitter is a basic social networking tool. To get started, you create a unique name or handle then describe yourself in your profile. Here’s what you can do within Twitter.
- Send short messages of 140 characters or less.
- Find and follow others of interest to you.
- Read the tweets of those you follow.
- Search for topics of interest.
- Monitor top trending tops.
Twitter’s limited functionality makes the tool ripe for 3rd party helper applications. There are many desktop and smart phone applications to choose from and new ones are added every week. I use several tools to extend Twitter functionality.
- Social Oomph – Sends me a daily digest of tweets including the keywords I specify.
- Yfrog – Tweets my photos and captions from my phone
- Tweetdeck – Monitor and send tweets. Filters the people I follow and topics I choose into columns.
- Bit.ly – URL shortener and click tracking
Today I am talking about Twitter helpers. Where are you today?
What Twitter helpers do you use?
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