Thinking about geting on Twitter? There are many do's and don'ts, some of which you just have to learn by doing. (Or contact me and I'll walk you through some of them or present to your organization.)
In the meantime, I've been bookmarking and compiling helpful tools to get the most out of my Twitter experience. And thought I'd share my collection:
tweetdeck.com – Adobe Air desktop app for viewing, posting, replying, and monitoring. I could not Tweet without it.
search.twitter.com - Enter any search term to find out who has recently posted it. For instance, here's s search of the term "WiMAX": http://search.twitter.com/search?q=wimax
tweetgrid.com - Monitor Twitter in real-time for multiple search terms. Here's a search of my Twitter ID @juliewright, 'obama,' and 'ipod.' These last two terms are updated in real time. Very cool.
twittersheep.com - Displays the most common biographical elements in a person's followers' bios--their herd. For instance, mine shows that most of my followers are social media consultants or junkies, PR professionals, bloggers, news hounds or other media connections.
tweetclouds.com - See what kinds of things a person twitters most about. DISCLAIMER: This website is taking so long to load that I abandoned it. Like many Twitter tools, most are free and therefore there's no business model to underwrite additional servers, etc. as they become more heavily used. I'm assuming that's the problem here.
tweetscan.com - Searches Twitter for key search terms and sends you emails with links to relevant posts. This is a very convenient way of staying on top of Twitter activity relevant to your interests or business. As with Tweetclouds.com, I'm having trouble loading their site.
futuretweets.com - Tweets for you while you’re away from your computer/phone, so allows 'time shifting.' Claims to be a great way to create an alibi too. Um, not sure about that.
themattinator.com - Post to multiple Twitter accounts simultaneously.
tweepsearch.com – Find people to follow.
twitter.com/mrtweet - Recommends people to follow.
twitpic.com - Send photos via Twitter; people can comment on them. Your comments on other people's photos will appear as Tweets. See mine: http://twitpic.com/photos/juliewright.
twickie.com – Embed Twitter threads in your blog/website.
twitbacks.com – Create customized backgrounds
twtpoll.com – Create a poll you can embed in your Twitter stream and monitor results.
tweetcongress.org - Find Congress people on Twitter. Apparently 11% are there.
mediaontwitter.pbwiki.com - Find other media on Twitter (also search #journotwit too).
meetup.com/sdtweetup - Meet people you Twitter with in person. This is the San Diego link. But there are usually TweetUps in all major cities.
tweetergetter.com – EVIL. Don’t do it…. This enables you to generate new followers or follow others in a spammish way that is counter to the principles of good social media practices.
Which brings me full circle to the do's and don'ts of Twitter and social media in general which will have to be the subject of another post, another time!
P.S. I do not vouch for the security of these tools. Most will require you to share your Twitter ID and password to fully use them.
2 comments:
I'm still not on the twitter bus. I am not at all sure I will, but it seems to be, like blogging and other social networks were so many years ago, the wave of the future. I don't know if I want to spend anymore energy being "connected." Of course, that is all subject to change as resistance, it would appear, is futile.
Tanya sent me,
Mike
Looking forward to your do's and don'ts. I think I'd participate more if I knew the don't's ahead of time. Great tools here, thanks.
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