5 useful Twitter tools

Twitter has become an established method of social networking, but as well as being a fun way to connect with friends, it also provides an effective opportunity to generate traffic to your website, and we usually recommend that our clients take advantage of this wonderful free service. There are many thousands of useful tools available to enhance the Twitter experience, we’ve listed below 5 of our favourites.

Tweetdeck

One of the best Twitter desktop apps currently available. Tweetdeck allows you to organise your friends and followers into groups, create and manage Twitter Lists, organise and update Facebook, manage replies, search results, direct messages and much more.

Twitterfeed

Very useful application you can use to automatically post entries from your blog to your Twitter account using a Tweet Feed.

TwitPic

TwitPic lets you share photos on Twitter. You can post pictures to TwitPic from your phone, the TwitPic home page or your Twitter account. If you have a Twitter account then you already have a Twitpic account, all you have to do is login to Twitpic with your Twitter username and password and you can start adding your photos straight away.

Twittersheep

TwitterSheep creates a visual representation of your Twitter followers as a ‘word cloud’ providing a quick overview of your followers interests.

Friend or Follow

Useful for finding out who isn’t following you back. This tool doesn’t require your password.