The viral world of Twitter
I decided to list some resources and tools that can be useful, if you are becoming a Twitter power user and you are interested of using Twitter as marketing media.
MARKETING TOOLS
http://www.twiveaway.com
Brad Gallen has created this campaign based marketing tool. It is free, but you need to promote brad_callen and reTweet his message to get in. Program is simple to use, you create a campaign, fill Twitter account credentials, reTweet message and reply message, that contains campaign giveaway link to followers, that has reTweeded.
http://www.twitternetmarketing.com
A Community for Internet Marketing & Home Based Business Marketing “Tweeters”. A lot of instructional material, videos, eBooks and articles.
http://www.tweetergetter.com
MLM strikes Twitter by Multi Level Tweeting. The concept is simple, when you retweet the message in the form below, you will automatically start following the 6 people in front of you in the system. A message posted on your twitter will automatically be formatted with your unique link. Meaning that when people follow through to this site, they will have to follow you in position 1 to use the system themselves. Now when those people refer others via their link, their new followers will also follow you in position 2 and so on down 5 levels deep. By the time you reach the 5th position, you will have thousands, if not tens of thousands of new twitter followers… and it NEVER stops growing!
http://twitteringfortraffic.com/ezview
reTweet and get Twitter traffic guides for free.
http://www.twittad.com
Post Twitter Account for Advertisers to Purchase. Opt-in to advertiser campaigns. For example, if you are a small business owner on Twitter you can advertise a product that interests you, and get paid to do it!
http://www.twitbacks.com
Free Twitter background for personalization and marketing purposes.
http://www.twitpic.com
Twitter picture sender. Upload your image and tweet it. Service creates a short link and description to Twitter account automatic. There is also a nice real time picture tweet map on their front page, that shows recent pictures on their location.
FOLLOWER MANAGEMENT
http://www.twitaddict.com/hummingbird
Commercial highly ranking Twitter network creation tool. I’ve followed some users stats and see up to 500 follower addition per day. System aims to build targeted network for selected niche and is a must tool for Twitter marketers even though you can do most of the work by combining free tools available here and there. Created by Masiab Labs.
http://www.twittertrafficmachine.com
Another commercial software for generating Twitter traffic created by Bill Crosby. The system explains how to grow a twitter account rapidly with total automation via 5 videos. In video 6, they show how create a viral affiliate business.
http://www.tweetlater.com
Schedule tweets, keyword tracking, follow up email. Comprehensive productivity tool for all Twitter power users. Free and Pro version available. I use this to get quarter daily tweets related given keywords to my email and to automate follow up emails to all new followers. Strongly recommended.
http://www.friendorfollow.com
List friend, that do not follow you, followers, that you do not follow and followers, that you follow. To create a dynamic community, you may want to have equal amount of followers and followed people on your account.
http://www.untweeps.com
If you find people, that are not making any posts and showing any recent activity, you may want to drop them from list. This application lists all recently active / inactive people from your Twitter account. Again this is good for keeping your community on dynamic state.
http://www.dossy.org/twitter/karma
Makes follow / unfollow really easy.
http://www.tweepler.com
Easy, enjoyable way of processing your Twitter followers. View a list of New Followers and classify them in one of two “Buckets” Follow (meaning you wish to follow them back) and Ignore (meaning you don’t wish to follow them and want to archive them out of the way, reducing clutter).
http://useqwitter.com
Qwitter e-mails you when someone stops following you.
STATS AND COUNTERS
http://twittercounter.com
Get your and any user daily stats graphically presented. You can also make your profile featured and advertise it to get popularity. List top ranking Twitter users.
http://twitterholic.com
Lists top ranking Twitter users by their follower base. You can get your own stats from that site too.
http://xefer.com/twitter
Makes charts from your Twitter activity. Nice graphics!
http://tweetstats.com
Graph your Twitter Stats including: Tweets per hour, Tweets per month, Tweet timeline, Reply statistics. Web2.0 interface.
| http://desktop.seesmic.com Twitter and FaceBook AIR application. Follow and organize easily multiple accounts. You can collect userlists with this tool and its really useful for bigger accounts because it makes possible to manage important followers. Easy and quick way to share links, pictures and video with your friends. |
http://www.twhirl.org Twhirl connects to multiple Twitter, laconi.ca, Friendfeed and Seesmic accounts, displays notifications for new messages, shorten long URLs (using digg.com, bit.ly, snurl, twurl or is.gd) and cross-post your updates to Jaiku and many other sites like Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and more via Ping.fm. Works on MAC and PC because it uses Adobe AIR platform. |
| http://www.tweetdeck.com TweetDeck is a third party Twitter client and personal browser for staying in touch with what’s happening now, connecting you with your contacts across Twitter, Facebook and more. TweetDeck shows you everything you want to see at once, so you can stay organised and up to date. Only bad side of the program is, that is uses API calls (100/hour) quite quickly. Especially this is a limit, if you have a lot of followed people. |
http://www.flock.com One of my favorite browser for social networking. Flock pulls all of your favorite people, places and content together in a convenient view and delivers a more personal experience of the web, where its users are more easily connected to what’s important to them. You need to see and use it to realize its power. |
| http://www.alertthingy.com/ AlertThingy mixes a lot of different social network utilities. Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Tumblr, Yammer, Basecamp and Huddle integrations combined with cool RSS reader. Targeted for consumers and business users. |
http://www.atebits.com/tweetie-mac/ Tweetie mac is a simple and elegant multi column twitter client for Mac only. As a navite application it performs really fast and can hold multiple Twitter accounts. However what comes to functionality, its not as comprehensive as other clients. |
| http://www.nambu.com/ Nambu is one of the new comers. It support Twitter, Identica and laconica microblogging platforms. Supports iPhone! |
http://mytwittertoolbar.com Nice set of tools right on your browser bar! MAC, PC & LINUX. |
Finally other resource for Twitter client comparison: http://budurl.com/y5m5.
SEARCH TWITTER PEOPLE
http://search.twitter.com
Get tweets by keyword searches. Gives endless of marketing ideas.
http://www.twitterment
Twitter search engine. Looks up from tweets, profiles, URLs,…
http://www.twittervision.com
Funny Twitter map application, which shows tweets on map.
http://twitterfall.com
Real time stream of selected keyword based tweets. Excellent.
SHORT URLS
Short URL services are used simply to shorten long URLs. This is a must because Twitter tweeds has a character limit of 140. Side effect of using these services are, that they hide the actual destination page, so what comes to unethical activity like Mikeyy worm, they are not always safe to use. So my preference is to use normal URLs whenever possible.
http://tweetburner.com
Shorten, share and track URLs, converts urls to: http://twurl.nl
http://twitclicks.com
Shorten and track link stats. Twitter integration.
http://tinyurl.com
Very famous URL shrinker, that has a preview page feature too.
http://budurl.com
Shrink and track URLs. Get sophisticated stats for your links!
http://short.to
Makes short links and uses Google accounts for edit link feature.
http://bit.ly
Shorten, share and track links. Integrates with Twitter.
http://ow.ly
Shrink it. Simple.
http://tr.im
Trim URLs. Service emphasizes to process and delivery speed and has advanced tracking features for registered users.
http://is.gd
Compress URLs. Preview page and FireFox plug-in for additional feature.
More speculation about shorteners and interesting REST services.
OTHER USEFUL RESOURCES
Top 10 cardinal Sins of Twittering
Twitter and SEO Free Report (no optin, no reTweet)
114 Ways to Tweet – What to Tweet, How to Tweet
How to Manage your Followers and Followee
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Hey,
thanks for very good information.
Have a nice day
Wow, Brad, this is one pile of great information! Nice to have the inside scoop on this, thanks very much for your generosity!
BTW, my favorite short URL is Tweetdeck, it’s immediate, one click through w/out the landing page.
Very good article, it’s bookmarked.
Make sure you follow me at twitter.com/MichaelGaudet
Great compilation and very thoughtful commentary. Well done!