Category — twitter

1) Twitbin

Twitbin is a firefox extension that allows you to keep up with all of your Twitter conversations right from your browser sidebar.

Features

• Send messages
• Receive messages
• Share links
• Also supports internet explorer v7+

2) Twitterbar

TwitterBar allows you to post to Twitter from Firefox’s address bar. A small Twitter icon sits to the right of your address bar; clicking on it will post your tweet, and you can hover your mouse over it to see how many characters you have left.

You can also post by typing “–post” at the end of your tweet. Clicking the Twitter icon when visiting a webpage will send a tweet containing the URL of the webpage you are currently viewing.

3) Twitterfox

The extension adds a tiny icon on the status bar that notifies you when your friends update their status. Also it has a small text input field to update your status.

4) TwitKit

Features

• Runs on mac, windows, or linux
• Shows your entire network of followers.
• Easily delete tweets
• Has a 6-section interface, using tabs to separate content

5) Yoono

Yoono simplifies your social life on the web by centralizing all your social networks and instant messaging in one easy to use browser sidebar. Get all your friend updates automatically wherever you are on the web and update your status instantly across Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and more. Yoono also shows you personalized recommendations for related websites, products, videos, and more based on the page you are viewing.

The following is a list of twitter directory sites that can give you more followers:

1) wefollow.com

This is a new project from Kevin Rose. It’s user-created directory for anyone with a twitter account. Each person with a twitter account can have up to 3 tags associated with it. Adding yourself to the directory is also easy. You just need to click the following link.

2) twitterpacks.pbwiki.com

Twitterpacks is a wiki-style twitter directory. Each category and sub-category has a page that you can edit and add your twitter account page.

3) justtweetit.com

A large directory of twitter users categorized by topics.

4) www.tweetfind.com

In addition to a directory of twitter users, it also shows the top 10 trends in the last 5 minutes, few hours, and 24 hours.

5) www.twibs.com

A directory of businesses on twitter.

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