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Online Marketing Blog: Five New Twitter Tools You Should Know

  • Faris · 1 year ago
    Nice screen shot of Twerpscan... I believe that's Calcanis at the top of the list of people you shouldn't follow back.
  • TranceMist · 1 year ago
    When I was reading these, I thought "oh cool" and then caught myself thinking these were for Friendfeed instead of twitter.

    Twitter so limited, when put in scope of Friendfeed. Sure, these are cool, but such a small part of the big picture.
  • Igor Poltavskiy · 1 year ago
    We also should know Twitter conversation tool quotably.com
  • Lee Odden · 1 year ago
    Igor, quotably.com is down for maintenance tonight. Will check it again in the am.
  • Lee Odden · 1 year ago
    Faris, the Twerpscan shows good and questionable Twitter accounts inter-mixed - unless you sort them. Jason Calcanis comes up as very authoritative.

    TranceMist, I don't mention Friendfeed until much later in the post - not sure where that impression would come from. However, you're right in that it would be great to see some 3rd party apps for Friendfeed.
  • Connie Bensen · 1 year ago
    Thanks for these. I agree that quotably.com is worthwhile. I used it when Twitter was not working the other night (to post from).
  • Brian Solis · 1 year ago
    Lee, thanks for keeping on top of this stuff and helping point people in the right direction!
  • giovanni gallucci · 1 year ago
    Lee,

    GREAT list! There are some HUGE time savers here. Thanks.
  • Igor Poltavskiy · 1 year ago
    My Tweetwheel(http://www.tweetwheel.com/scabr) is down on friend #26. :(
  • Kiki · 1 year ago
    Great list, thanks for sharing! I'd maybe add Tweetburner to it (www.tweetburner.com), a nice tool that helps tracking what's happening with the links you twitter.
  • neville · 1 year ago
    Excellent list, thanks.

    One more tool I'd include - Twitter Karma, which lets you see in one place who follows you and who you follow. Great for quickly discovering your network of complete (or incomplete!) connections. A great time saver.

    http://www.dossy.org/twitter/karma/
  • Twitplus · 1 year ago
    You may also want to check out twitplus.com

    Lets your send files, pictures & video to your twitter followers either privately or publically.
  • James Mann · 1 year ago
    Excellent post. I love learning about new ways to use or view twitter friends.

    TweetWheel is pretty cool and Summarize is as well.

    Thanks
  • Marjolein Hoekstra · 1 year ago
    As of today, TwerpScan also offers the possibility to give your thumbs up or down about someone right from the web interface. See this screenshot for what that looks like: http://snipr.com/reputationscreenshot

    To enable this option on your own system, install @Carlo Zottmann's Greasemonkey script, of which you'll find details here: http://snipr.com/twt_reputationscript

    I cover new Twitter stuff at @twtooltrack.
  • BarbaraKB · 1 year ago
    Excellent summary of some of the latest new tools.

    Twitter is THE human feed: RTS (Real Twitter Syndication).
  • Aaron Peters · 1 year ago
    Hi Lee,

    nice post. TweetWheel is great!

    Just wrote a blog post yesterday: Top 10 Twitter Apps
    http://bembamedia.com/2008/05/05/top-10-twitter...

    What do you think of my list?

    Txs
    Aaron
  • David Hobson · 1 year ago
    Really useful post. I`ve heard of a couple of the tools but not all of them.
  • robert john ed · 1 year ago
    Lee-

    I don't use Twitter. Maybe if I did I'd have another way to contact you...was wondering if you wanted to grab a bite to eat down at the BBQ joint sometime this week or next?

    I went by it yesterday @ 1pm and it wasn't open...they're still running right? Shoot me an email and let's set something up.
  • Kiowa Jackson · 1 year ago
    I've just started using twitter. After that guy busted out of jail with it I figure it could be a good thing to have. *saving this list for later*
  • Barbara Ling · 1 year ago
    Just headed over to check out Tweetwheel and it's down for me. :(

    And don't forget about http://www.TwitterBudgie.com ! :)

    Enjoy,

    Barbara
  • Aaron · 1 year ago
    Um, apparently you're supposed to be following me...and Rand but he doesn't follow back. High and mighty twitter hater he is ;)
  • Our Monmouth · 1 year ago
    Thanks for a intresting list.
    I like twitterlocal to network with local bloggers:

    www.twitterlocal.net

    @imnj
  • David Petherick · 1 year ago
    Five really nice resources, Lee, succintly described. Thanks for the pointer.
  • IheartSF · 1 year ago
    Nice list. I'd add to it the Siphs integration with Twitter. When I use Siphs to bookmark sites, the link automatically posted to my Twitter feed.
  • Jim · 1 year ago
    I love the wheel. Very cool. Thanks
    Jim
  • Jeff Majka · 1 year ago
    Great post Lee! Love the Wheel! Jeff
  • Kevin · 1 year ago
    I would have to say I really like twitterfeed (http://twitterfeed.com/), for feeding my blog to twitter. They support OpenID which is a plus, are reliable, and pretty easy to use.
  • Sjors · 1 year ago
    another nice site is Twittersoap, which allows you to stream your mobile photos by toppic

    http://www.twittersoap.com
  • Carter · 1 year ago
    Thank you!

    I'm relatively new to Twitter and these tools just made the experience MUCH more valuable and shaved months off my learning curve!
  • James from Babyspot.com · 1 year ago
    Great Post!!!

    I am @jamesatbabyspot

    See you in twitter!
  • lmc · 1 year ago
    great list, thanks. and thanks to http://twitter.com/waynesutton for the tweet.
  • Michael Jensen · 1 year ago
    Lee, I've shared these twitter tools with you through Twitter, but thought I'd add them to your comments of this post...

    Twitter Answers with TweetAnswers - Ask questions and get answers! Simple to use: "@tweetanswers #topic Your question"

    LiveTwitting for conference and event coverage through twittering. Records all your coverage, includes speaker and topic organization through simple commands.
  • SolarDave · 1 year ago
    Good write up. I created a twitter account a long time ago and now it seems like the people worth following are starting to use it so now I am using it every day.
  • Stu · 1 year ago
    Cool list...thanks! This might make twitter a little more interesting to use.

    Cheers,
    Stuart
  • Ela · 1 year ago
    Thanks for the list. I came across the tool TwitterLocal.net. It allows to filter out Tweets by location. We can generate an RSS feed to pull up Tweets from a certain area, specified by city, state, postal code, and a mile radius.
  • Ela · 1 year ago
    Re: TwitterLocal.net tool. I have just tried to access the website and it is temporarily unavailable but check this out later on. This is a really cool and neat Twitter app.
    thanks
  • Roger · 1 year ago
    Great post, thanks. It's good to have objective ways to decide who to follow. As I point out in my blog TwitterThoughts, choosing who to follow and block is crucial to a meaningful Twitter experience. However, it's not just a numbers game. As one of your commenters points out, Jason Calcanis looms large in the Twitterverse, but most of what he puts out is self-promotional. As opposed to answering the question "What are you doing?" the most important step to a worthwhile Twittexperience is to ask "What do I want to know?" Start there and you won't go far wrong.
  • Biff · 1 year ago
    Wow, what a waste of time! Do any twits ever get any work done?
  • Lee Odden · 1 year ago
    Here are two excellent posts citing specific, productive uses of Twitter:

    Tweeting for companies
    101 practical uses of Twitter
  • alex · 1 year ago
    l love the wheel. Very cool. Thanks
  • Ruth Ann Macklin · 1 year ago
    Ahhh...so many fun things and so little time!!
  • Sarah · 1 year ago
    Very good and relevant topic! I really want to post this to my blog, what are your rules on that?
  • jilan · 1 year ago
    Great article , but i think tweetwheel takes too long.
    I kind get board in the middle & close the window.
  • David · 1 year ago
    Hey! you left out www.tweeterized.com
  • paisley · 1 year ago
    good article
  • Jeff Przybylski · 1 year ago
    I've been using Twitter for a while now, but never really did much with it, but after seeing some of these tools I'm inspired to build up a following again!
  • unsworth sugden pr · 1 year ago
    Great post. I'm off to twitter. Thanks
  • Rob · 1 year ago
    Great tools...I'm new on twitter, and everyday I found it more interesting!
    Thanks for this article.
    Im @lespaul777
  • Lisa Williams · 1 year ago
    Interesting tools, I think the hardest part is deciding where you spend your time (just like with friends in real life;) Thanks Lee
  • Allan · 1 year ago
    It's interesting to see so many peripheral or ancillary services cropping up around Twitter. Twitter has not settled on a business model yet so I think these third party developers are taking a huge risk. On the other hand, Twitter has created so much passion around its service that this outgrowth of third party apps are a testament to its useful and sticky nature.
  • Mike Kelly · 1 year ago
    Makes me want to start using twitter more often, I'm pretty picky about add on tools nice list there more then a few keepers here...
  • twitty · 12 months ago
    Hey that's cool collection of twitter tools. Here is one more addition http://twitbuttons.com. This tool generates code for follow me buttons and hosts button images. It is fast and easy and very usable