19 Twitter Desktop Apps Compared Twitter has become an integral part of our social media lives, marketing strategies, and business objectives. We have multiple accounts, hundreds of followers to watch, Twitter trends to track, hashtags to follow, and a frequent need for continuously updating search results. As such, getting by on the limited feature set available via Twitter.com is difficult at best. Enter the desktop application, a third-party piece of software that you can install on your computer to interface with Twitter and get more out of your microblogging activities. Now that Twitter is older than a toddler, you have a variety to choose from. *Note: all ratings are based on 5 stars Power Users Only Destroy Twitter: Certainly not your most sophisticated Twitter client, but definitely above average and packing a few hidden nuggets. Mashable rating: 3.5 starsHit feature: user-created themes that you can download to skin the appCommon concern: better features are hidden Mac Apps Windows Apps A Few More Options
12 Twitter Tools Every Event Marketer Should Know About | Experi Twitter has about 18 million active users, which is forecast to grow to 26 million active users in 2010. In a recent survey by Champion Exhibition Services, it was found that 54% of association event marketers use Twitter. Of these, 82% used Twitter to create a buzz before an event, and 68% use Twitter to support PR efforts. Only 36% use direct messaging, and even fewer (23%) use #hashtags. This survey points out that even for the simplest Twitter purposes in events, adoption is still quite low. Despite all the buzz, Twitter is still a relatively untapped resource on the social media landscape. One way to advance the conversation around using Twitter for event and experiential marketing is to leverage third-party applications. Twellow: The Twitter yellow pages. Icerocket Twitter Search: There are several Twitter search tools out there. Tweet Later: This is one of my favorites for event marketers. Tweetdeck: Monitoring the conversation around your event is critical.
Nineteen Free Twitter Tools that Turn Twee Image via CrunchBase Twitter hosts approximately one million tweets per hour. In mid-September, the site will accept its 4 billionth tweet. Everyone knows there is wisdom in all that group thought--some even predict Twitter could be the next Google--but how can you tap the brainpower of Twitter's 6 million (give or take) users? That's Twitter's $64,000 question (or, according to Scoble, the $5 billion question). What does this mean to you as you conduct research to assist your clients, your small business, or other interests? There are plethora of paid services and tools available for monitoring sentiment and knowledge, but since the R&D budget for Experience: The Blog is somewhat south of $.01, I cannot share any insights about these offerings. But you don't need deep pockets to derive insight from the Twitterverse. Track Tweet Volume For terms and phrases with a reasonably high volume of tweets, Trendtistic furnishes custom graphs of Tweet volume over the past 180 days.
The FASTforward Blog Guide to Twitter: En Over the last three years, the members of the Fast Forward Blog have been writing regularly on the developing 2.0 world. If you been tracking the blog since early on, or diligently follow all the links into the archives, or even search for an item of interest – you hopefully have founds lots of interesting ideas and insights that helped you track and understand the emergence of enterprise 2.0, social media, and more. And yet it can still be hard to get the full value of all the insights that have been discussed or pointed to from here without some overarching narrative thread. Hence the idea for these guides to see if we can aggregate, edit and make more accessible the collective “wisdom” that has been published here over the years. Where to begin? So, with that, the first of our guides: The Fast Forward Blog Guide to Twitter . (Please let us know what you think by emailing us or adding comments to the actual guide.) Very informative and detailed view on Twitter. @mediatrustpete
Getting Things Done with Twitter – Emily Chang - eHub After three years on the web, Twitter has become more than just another micro-blogging client. A whole industry of web applications have sprung up to extend and capitalize on Twitter’s capabilities, from the ridiculously silly, to the gobsmackingly useful. If Twitter is not already a part of your daily life, these applications can give you a whole new perspective on the idea of Getting Things Done. There’s a lot you didn’t know you could do with 140 character spurts. For the most part, you can sign up for external Twitter applications with your existing Twitter account. Hopefully, soon, Twitter will have implemented OAuth for authentication, but currently, many Twitter mashups require you to enter your password. Financial TweetWhatYouSpend is exactly what it sounds like. StockTwits is a Twitter community for people who are obsessed with stocks. Similar to StockTwits, FxTwits is a Twitter community centered around finance; the difference is that it’s focused on currency pairs. Scheduling
twitter4pd - home TWEET IDEAS: 13 Things to Do on Twitter Besides Tweet Tired of delivering the typical stream of status updates on Twitter? Why not try some of the following ideas for other things you can do with the service? Thanks to an open API and a philosophy of interconnectivity, Twitter's vast array of third-party services has you covered on a number of alternative uses for the famed microblogging tool. Let's take a look at a few of them. 1. A service called FileSocial provides a great way to send files smaller than 50 MB. If you want to send a person-to-person file privately, check out FileTwt. 2. Routinely running out of those business cards made of dead trees? When you sign up, the service will pull in the data from your Twitter profile as starter information, and you can add other details to customize your card. 3. Music lovers have a lot of options in this category (see 10 Ways to Share Music on Twitter). 4. The media-specific Twitter tools abound, with a goodly number of options available for image sharing here too. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.
10 Twitter Tools To Help You Track And Perform Better I’m guessing if you are reading this is because you use or want to use Twitter for more than just pure fun. Maybe you even have an objective in mind. Maybe you are trying to convert followers into prospects for your product or service or you are trying to increase traffic to your website or blog. Whatever those objectives are, having the right tools handy is always important. Think of a traditional marketing campaign, big or small, there are tools that help you measure your performance, compare with the competition, manage your cost, track your conversion rate and many more that will allow you to adjust your strategy and go after the right prospect. The good news is that there are applications out there that you can use to get some visibility on how you are doing and help you get in front of the right public. 1. 2. Another destination with some cool data to take in consideration. 3. One of my favorites. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Bit.ly is more than a URL shortener. 10. Final Thought