Top 5 twitter marketing tools

Twitter is a great way to keep your friends updated with events and other interesting info, but it can also be used as a marketing tool for companies to announce new products, keep existing customers updated with company news, and get new customers interested in your products.

The following are five applications (or services) that can help you organize and promote your business on twitter:

1) Twitter tools

This is a wordpress plugin by Alex King. It creates an integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account. It allows you to pull your tweets into your blog (as posts and digests) and create new tweets on blog posts and from within WordPress.

This is a must-have for anyone with a wordpress blog. It is very easy to setup (you just need to choose a couple of settings and add your twitter username and password information) and it allows you to quickly notify your friends on twitter when you have a new post on your blog.

Features:

• Automatically create tweets through your blog posts
• Create blog posts from your tweets
• Daily digest posts from your tweets (experimental)
• Weekly digest posts from your tweets (experimental)

Download it Here

2) Socialtoo.com

Socialtoo is a free service that keeps track of all the people that have followed or unfollowed you and gives you the ability to automatically send a confirmation message to anyone that follows you (such as a link to your website).

Features:

• Automatically Send a message to people that follow you
• Automatically follow people that follow you
• Blacklist users and prevent them from following you
• Follow anybody that has followed you in the past (premium service)
• Create and share surveys

Signup here

3) twitter.com search

Although this isn’t a separate application, the twitter.com global search needs to be mentioned. It can be used to search through tweets and users to see if anyone is talking about your company or products.

Search on twitter here

4) twhirl

Anyone serious about twitter should get twhirl. It is a desktop application that runs on the adobe air platform.

Features:

• connects to multiple Twitter, laconi.ca, Friendfeed and Seesmic accounts
• shorten long URLs (using bit.ly, snurl, twurl or is.gd)
• search tweets using Twitter Search and TweetScan, and follow topics in near-real time with saved searches
• automatically find tweets mentinoning your @username

Download here

5) tweetburner.com

A very good tool to track how many people click a link you’ve shared on twitter. Very useful to see what your followers like.

Site here