Best free tools for Twitter
Twitter provides an excellent platform to bloggers to promote their blogs. Because of its popularity several third-party tools and services were created to help Twitter users. Following is a list of the tools and services that I think make Twitter lot more easier and fun to use.
Quotably
If you find Twitter conversations hard to follow Quotably is the service for you. Quotably reformats Twitter messages into a easy-to-follow threaded conversation. The service itself is quite easy to use. Just go to Qutoably.com and enter the Twitter ID and the service will give you threaded conversations the person is involved in. You don’t have to sign up with Quotably to use their service. If you like you can even post a reply on Twitter from Quotably. Another good feature is that you can view a RSS feed for any Twitter user by simply appending ‘.rss’ to the end of the Quotably URL for example www.quotably.com/zparacha.rss.
Tweet Scan
Tweet Scan is a real-time search engine for Twitter. Tweet Scan lets you search text in Twitter posts. You can use this service to find out the opinions of other people on a particular issue.
We index all public messages on Twitter so you can find the conversations, people, and tweets you want. You can search by keyword, author, and date with results available via email, RSS, and Twhirl.
Ping.fm
If you participate in more than one social media networks then you might want to give Ping.fm a try. This service allows you to post to a bunch of popular social media networks from one single page. You just need to log on to Ping.fm and from there you can post your messages to Twitter, Jaikum Tumblr, Facebook and Pownce.
TwitterFox
TwitterFox is a Firefox add-on which alerts you when your friends post a new tweet. With this extension you can stay up-to-date with your friends’ Tweeter posts without visiting Tweeter website.
TwitterLocal
Looking for Twitter users in your area? TwitterLocal can help you in your quest. You can use this service either by submitting a form on their website or by downloading the application.
TwitterLocal lets you generate an RSS or XML Feed to filter out Tweets around a certain area. Just enter a city, state, postal code, choose the range of miles you want to include, and hit the button. You’ll instantly get URLs to add to your RSS reader.
Twobile
Twobile is a Twitter client for Windows Mobile devices that allows you to update your status, view the public timeline, your friends timeline, send and receive replies and direct messages, view featured users and favorites.
tinytwitter is another mobile application to post to tweeter from your mobile device.
TwitterFeed:
Twitterfeed automatically informs your followers about your new posts. Read more about this service here.
Twitterbar
Twitterbar is another Firefox extension that allows you to post to twitter from the FireFox. Options for the extension include safe/secure mode, open twitter in new tab after posting and the ability to change the URL tweet ‘Currently browsing’ text.
Do you use these or any other tools for Twitter?
Jenny
May 3, 2008 @ 2:51 am
I’m a bit nervous about twitter given that, if public, people can read about what I last ate. People tend to put messages like that on Twitter. There is such a short space in which to talk.
I’m using Skype and tossing up which is better.
These twitter tools however do impress. It would be nice to find people in your local area and when they have last twittered.
Jenny’s last blog post..An Australian backyard
Bret
May 13, 2008 @ 10:47 am
I’ve been resisting twitter since I first heard about it; however, people are finding it very useful in promoting their blog. I think I’ll have to give in and take a second look. Thanks for the twitter extras list I’m it’ll be useful if I decide to take the twitter plunge.
Bret’s last blog post..Friday Finds for 05/02/2008: Online RAID Space Calculation
Jens P. Berget
December 19, 2009 @ 3:09 am
I think Tweetie is the best free Twitter client for Mac (it’s free in sponsored mode, but you have to pay to get rid of the ads).
The best not free twitter tool I’m using is TweetAdder, it’s awesome.
– Jens
Young
December 20, 2009 @ 6:38 am
These are really nice tools for twitter, and I have used most of them, except Quotably and Twobile, will check out them later.
Young
December 20, 2009 @ 6:43 am
Oh my god, Quotably is dead!!