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Hopefully you have already introduced yourself to the micro-blogging phenomenon that is Twitter. Millions of others have too, and a few clever sorts have invented tools to help us make the most of it. Below is an overview of - what we could consider - the most useful tools for Twitter users (or 'Twitterers') looking to get the most out of it from an online marketing perspective. We've tried to order them in a way that progresses from beginner tools, to people who really want to milk Twitter for all its worth!
If you're not good on the design front, a site like Twitter Patterns allows you to brighten up your Twitter's background design with these downloadable patterns.
This is a popular one, allowing you to share photos through your Twitter account, on your phone or another API program.
This neat tool allows you to update your Twitter from your desktop, opposed to logging onto the Twitter website itself. It also shortens any URLs for you (essential to keep in with the character length constraints) and even gives you an audible notification if you've received new tweets.
An alternative to Twitteroo is the arguably more well known TweetDeck. It has an advantage of having a special iPod focused layout. It also has a cool trending feature, showing you want your friends are talking about.
As the name suggests, this Firefox Add-on allows you to update your Twitter and be notified of your followers' updates without visiting Twitter itself. It loads within Firefox so you can continue on the website you're already on.
Another great Firefox Add-on that gives you added features such as trends, Flickr and Youtube links, photo uploading and URL shortening.
Got a blog? You should have! Make it easy to post entries to your Twitter with this tool that does it for you.
Born out of frustration with Twitters often seen 404 page, this cool tool allows you to save messages that can't currently be posted to Twitter. When Twitter is back up, it is automatically posted for you.
Working as a trending tool for links, with Twitturly you can see the most popular links posted by Twitterers.
Want people to follow you? Of course. This Twitter tool actively finds Twitter users which talk about things similar to you.
This real-time search engine allows you to find new friends/followers who are talking about similar topics to you. Shame its not much to look at...
Similar to Twittertroll, but a directory instead of a search engine. You add yourself to the website, and take a look at similar users in the same category.
Intended to be the Yellow Pages of the Twitter world, here you can add yourself to a categorised directory. You can find fellow local users too.
Losing followers? See who has stopped following you on Twitter and when, giving a valuable insight into whether its your content that is the issue.
Some of your followers a little too talkative? They can remain your followers but be silenced with Twitblocker, it automatically stops showing their Twitterings.
For the egomaniacs out there, you can see how how you rank in Twitter.
Got lots of things you want to talk about? Don't tweet them all at once! You can use a scheduler like Twuffer to post tweets on days that you plan out.
Twitter's own search not helpful enough for you? You can view and compare trends by day or month with Twist.
For organisations serious about leveraging the marketing benefits of Twitter, TweetBeep allows you to get alerts when fellow Twitterers talk about you, your products or services. Its essentially an online press cutting service similar to Google Alerts.
A tool that's been reinvented for Twitter, it allows you to engage fellow Twitterers by creating your own polls. Neat.
Blackberry users have their own Twitter client, allowing them to post on their Twitter accounts easily.
Not especially useful, but very cool! See where people are Twittering from around the World.
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