As great as Twitter is, with all its features and constant news streams, it can quickly become an attention seeking infant taking up all your time if you let it.
Luckily, with the constant stream of Twitter tools being created to increase productivity on this network, we’re positively spoilt for choice on which to select to enhance our Twitter experience.
You might have yours, but here are some of my favourite Twitter tools that are also worth checking out.
ManageFlitter
ManageFlitter is a simple tool that keeps you up to date with the going ons of your followers.
From various tabs you can check reciprocal and non-reciprocal followers, bulk un-follow users, easily view the last tweets and bios of who you follow in one simple interface.
With the basic free account you’re allowed to unfollow up to 1,000 account a day. If you upgrade your account you can download all fans and follows, and mass follow back people you engage with, as well as see who unfollowed you and when.
Timley
Timley schedules your tweets at the optimum times for your followers. It works out when your followers are most active by analyzing your last couple of hundred tweets and creates time slots based on these findings.
It’s a great way to ensure your followers are actually seeing your tweets and provides simple analytics on the dashboard as well as regular email reports with a simple summary of your reach.
You can schedule up to 9 tweets a day, see who has retweeted you and how many people you are reaching. When using this tool don’t forget to change the time settings to your local timezone.
Another great thing about Timely is that you can add other admins for collaboration with your team. Timely works for Twitter and Facebook.
SocialBro
Social Bro provides detailed analytics into your Twitter account. It can tell you so much from who’s online to which accounts are the most influential.
Social Bro is helps you be strategic about which Twitter accounts to unfollow and which are worth building relationships with. A quick and dirty tool it isn’t, but if you take the time familiarise yourself with it, you won’t be disappointed.
KnowYourFollowers
I absolutely love KnowYourFollowers. Not only is it interesting, but it gives you qualitative as well as quantitative insights into your followers such as their interests, profession, gender, even whether or not they have kids etc.
It lets you dig deeper into the lifestyles of other Twitter users- offering more than the typical metrics like tweet frequency etc. With KnowYourFollowers you can really cater your tweets to suit your followers and encourage more interaction.
This tool has a free and paid version. The free version requires you to promote the service with a tweet to unlock its features and if you upgrade to their paid version you’re not forced to do this.
The paid version rates range from $4.95 to $19.95 depending on the number of followers you want to analyze.
Twitalyzer
Twitalyzer allows you to gain deeper insights into your Twitter account. It analyzes your account to feedback how many times you are retweeted, your influence, your impact, how you compare with other Twitter users and plenty of other metrics.
With Twitalyzer you can even set yourself impact goals and it will measure your progress.
This tool is great for marketing agencies as it allows you to create and client reports with pretty graphical representations of their Twitter account.
itweetlive
With itweetlive you can mass tweet people who have either engaged with you on Twitter, or have tweeted about topics you have set alerts for. The aim of this tool is to encourage engagement and activity.
Once you’ve prepared your tweets and they’ve been sent itweetlive can then tell you which tweets were more effective in receiving responses or being retweeted.
It’s a great way to gain new followers and engage with the Twitter community in a time effective way.
Bubble tweet
Bubble tweet is an innovative way to interact with your followers via Twitter. It allows you to make short video posts that appear in the form of a small bubble.
You can use this tool to add a bit of fun to your account, maybe do a rant of the day or perhaps review/product of the week. Bare in mind you only get 60 seconds of recording time.
Twylah
There’s much buzz surrounding Twylah and there’s even been some mutterings about it being great for search engine optimization.
Twylah links back to your Twitter account via power tweets and pulls out your tweets, puts them in context and displays them in an attractive magazine format.
Twylah essentially adds more depth to your tweets and enables you to create tabs to promote your other social profiles such as Twitter or your blog.
So there you have it, my favorite Twitter tools so far – I say this because of the speed in which new ones are being added.
What do you think of this round-up and are there any other Twitter tools you recommend?
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Article by RitaAuta
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Twitter is very important to get your traffic form and the targeted followers you can get.
I will look into these tools and see if any of them are worth it according to my needs. I am currently using Bugger by Digg Digg, and that service is one of the best for me. Thanks for the suggestions.
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Thanks for your comment and the tip Samuel! I haven’t come across that tool you’ve mentioned but I’ll look it up- you really do learn something new every day
I meant to say “Buffer”. My bad.
Learning everyday is the key to success.
Samuel recently posted..Top WordPress Plugins To Reach The Top!
Haha! Wasn’t gonna say but “Bugger” did sound a little rude for a social media tool, but Buffer is a tool I’ve heard of and use!
I had been using ManageFlitter for one of my Twitter account and I find it very useful to unfollow certain followers, Rita. I’m not an expert in Twitter, but I know at times when you follow someone, they will tend to follow you back, maybe 30% of them. And by using that tool, I manage to make a balance in my number of Follow vs Followers of my Twitter account.
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Yay! I’ve found another supporter of ManageFlitter, it really is a quick and painless way of mass unfollowing Twitter accounts whilst also getting an overview of the quality of those accounts.
You’re right- there is a tendency for a good proportion of followers to follow back (though I’m not sure on the exact percentage). Another tool which I haven’t mentioned in the list (because it isn’t free), but is particularly good at increasing your followers is TweetAdder. Worth a try if you haven’t checked it out yet.
I haven’t tried using twitter tools yet,but after reading your article i have made my mind to try them and use these tools
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You should definitely check at least some of them out. It’s amazing that some of them are free…
Hey Rita
No doubt twitter is more effective and quick way for getting traffic I only have experienced of Bubble Tweet among these tools.Can you please tell me which one is more powerful and user friendly among the highlighted list?
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I think all of them are effective and good to get different kind of graphs and making use of twitter effective. I would suggest that KnowYourFollowers is one of the best apps to use. It can give you a lot of information in the form of graphs.
Thanks
Ezvid
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@Ezvid : Yep- KnowYourFollowers is great for getting more in-depth analysis of your Twitter followers. Excellent for profiling for marketing reasons, or if you’re just plain nosey!
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Hi Rizwan, I’ve tried to list a cross section of tools to cover different needs so it’s hard to say which is the best. But in terms of my most used free tools on this list, I’d have to say ManageFlitter and Twitalyzer – they super quick and simple to use, and I find them useful in managing my multiple client social media accounts.
Hope that helps!
Hi Rita Auta, I Never heard the tools which you have listed above. I will surely try this tools. Thanks for the great list of tools.
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Thanks Sai- hope you get to try some of them out!
These tools are awesome. I cant get the minimum of twitter, I don’t know how to be social. So want to learn for increasing my sociability.
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Hi Rita,
Its great post I am using ManageFlitter and I didn’t knew most of them that you have covered.
Now will give try to these tools also.
Thanks.
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Thanks sheshnath – I hope you’ll find some gems from my list
Rita Auta recently posted..PPC Agencies: How to Avoid the Cowboys
All these tools are new for me. Never heard about this.
Would love to give it a try. Thanks For sharing Rita.
Cheers.
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Thanks for your comment Amit- good luck testing them out!
Hi Rita,
I haven’t tried any of the above twitter tools yet. You have written a nice list of tools. I will definitely give a try to them And increase my social media credibility.
Thanks.
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Hey Rita,
Same here, never heard of most of these tools. my twitter following is not large so I’ve not given these thing much thought, once it grows they may come in handy but for now that a long way off.
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Hey Simmeon, thanks for stopping by! As I mentioned in a previous comment TweetAdder is great for growing your Twitter follower base- it’s not free but you can try it for free and if you like it, there’s only a one-time fee.
I’m not an affiliate for then btw- just promoting it cos it worked for me
Good luck with growing your followers!
Rita Auta recently posted..PPC Agencies: How to Avoid the Cowboys
nice list of tools for knowing more about twitter followers
Twitter just recently released their new targeted tweets advertising service which I can’t wait to try as it looks to cut down the need for most of this other stuff which tends to take up too much time
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Thanks Caleb for the tip off- I wasn’t aware of this new Twitter development. Question is- how much will this targeted tweets advertising service cost? And is it feasible for SMEs? I know promoted tweet prices are extremely high- and until Twitter provides some of the functionality provided in these external tools- there will continue to be a need for them.
Great comment though- thanks for your contribution!
Rita Auta recently posted..PPC Agencies: How to Avoid the Cowboys
I had never been into much of Tweeting, the reason is I didn’t get good response from twitter. On the other site Facebook and pinterest is doing fine job for me. I think its time to use few tools for better twitter experience. I will be giving a try to these tools.
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Hi Rita,
a lot of great tools that I didn’t know about. Thanks for this, it will go in my favorites for later use. I have started to realize how important Twitter is, and for people like me that don’t have enough time to spend on twitter it is very important to make use of these tools.
Mariella
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Yep- these tools definitely make Twitter easier to manage- especially for one man bands and small businesses trying to juggle many tasks at once.
I never knew there were so many to try from. Timley caught my eye, I think its something that I can see using to tweet at intervals. I can set up various tweets and then allow it to tweet at 3 hours intervals.
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Shalu, I’m a huge fan of Timely- its sooo simple to use and also integrates with Facebook too. Enjoy!
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Hey these are some really good tools to handle twitter fully.I’ve never tried using the ones you listed.Now with your recommendation,I may try few of these and see how things unfolds in getting some good targetted twitter traffic.Thanks for the share
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Twitter has always been a popular platform for launching and running campaigns . I really appreciate your efforts for this free tools. Thanks
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i am using twitalyzer only and indeed its a very good tool to get insights into your twitter account
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Actually, i had ignored twitter completely in the beginning of my blog and later found it was important.. After i got my followers coming, i never had to look back. Thanks for the post!
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In my opinion all these tools can give a second breath Twitter, and maybe promote t somehow.
Hi,
This is wonderful article about twitter. I can see that most of the twitter tools are really awesome. I have been using tweetmeme and other tools to get twitter tweets and followers.
Thanks
Yes, Tweetmeme is another good tool. Hopefully you’ll find some from this list which are just as helpful!
the idea of “KnowYourFollowers” is awesome
but understanding people’s interest a bit more i can customize products for them and so make more sales
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Hey Fanstap- yep, KnowYourFollowers stands out from the other tools in providing more “qualitative” insights.
Hi as per my opinion all these tools can give a second breath of Twitter, and maybe promote t somehow.
Thanks for the great information
i have already using ManageFlitter other are also great and wana try other also thanks for share…
How can I not have heard of ANY of these? This post made me feel like I’m living in the dark ages of twitter.
I personally have a hard time wanting to use anything that follows or unfollows mass amounts of people like manageflitter is supposed to. I had a bad experience with a product called speedlings. It totally ruined one of my twitter accounts because of the associated twitter program that made me look suspicious.
As for the rest, I will be checking them out. I always learn something here!
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Thanks for your comment Bellaisa. Don’t worry – I’m always learning of other great Twitter tools all the time, so you’re not alone
Sorry you’ve had bad experiences with other unfollow tools- but I’ve been happy with ManageFlitter for this task- I think they’re worth checking out.
Good luck!
Rita Auta recently posted..How to Optimize Video for Search Engines
Never heard or read about these tools, Rita thanks for sharing these tools.
Which tool you prefer in these?
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Thanks Khaja- I’m glad you liked my selection. As to my favourites- I’ve mentioned ManageFlitter a few times and as I don’t want to be accused of having secret shares in the company
let me mention another favourite- Timely for its simplicity and effectiveness.
Rita Auta recently posted..How to Optimize Video for Search Engines
To be honest I probably neglect twitter a little bit and I could be getting a lot more out of it. Think I will give some of these tools a try especially manageflitter. Thanks for the share
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You’re welcome Craig. Give some of these tools a try- who knows, some of them could put on auto-pilot or simplify some of the more tedious Twitter tasks. Good luck!
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thanks for the recommendation on Know Your Followers tool to get “qualitative as well as quantitative insights”. I believe it is hard to manage what you can not track. this post is most helpful.
Thanks for your comment Mike. If you’re anything like me, I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised with KnowYourFollowers
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Social media plays vital role.. By reading above post all points are clear thanks for giving such a wonderful post.
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Thanks for sharing, some tools I use very long, but about some I hear first time
I am using twitter from 2 years and never heard of any of the above tools.Good to know that there are so many tools to help..
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I don’t use Twitter much, so i had least idea about all these tools. But these looks really wonderful and worth a shot. Thanks for sharing this great info.
Thanks for the tips, Rita.
I love Twylah, it’s so useful!
Twitter is a bang on product and so are its various tools. I personally like the bubble tweet, because of the video feature. It is one of the enticing feature which adds a certain charm to the account of twitter. Thanks for providing information on various twitter tools.
Thanks abhishek, I also found Bubbletweet quite addictive when I started with it. Must admit I’ve neglected it a bit these days- oops!
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I never heard of manage filters before, neither did I know that the tool keeps you up to date with the going ons of your followers. Keep posting!
Thanks Delrio- ManageFlitter are ace, you should def look them up! Look out for my future posts, I’ve got a couple in the pipeline
Wow, I never heard of those tools aside from Manageflitter. I used it before and it works great because we can easily analyze if someone is not following us back.
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